Inkmotes

Hatch living ink blots, send them on real-time missions, and check in for a few minutes every day.

Inkmotes is a creature collector for Playdate built around short daily visits. Hatch motes from eggs, grow a collection of every species, and send them out on missions that take real hours. Then put the Playdate down and get on with your day.

Motes are abstract, living blots - generated in crisp 1-bit. Some you'll hatch on day one, while others you may need to wait a long time for.

A daily session takes just a few minutes: collect what your motes brought back, fight a few rounds in the arena, spend your ink on upgrades, send them out again, and crank open whatever egg is ready for hatching! Progress follows the real clock, this game is meant to live on your Playdate for a long time.

Features

• Collect 50 motes in 4 rarities - 24 common, 16 uncommon, 8 rare and 2 mythic
• 5 aspects: Glimmer, Hollow, Tangle, Ember and Drift, defined in a wheel of advantages
• Real-time missions - a 1-hour scout, a 6-hour venture or an 8-hour expedition. Send motes that match the mission's aspect for a better chance of success and bring back materials, ink and (sometimes) new eggs.
• Auto-battle arena. Pick a team of three and watch them fight  rivals scaled to your strength. Five fights a day and a global rating to climb.
• Upgrades - four stat tracks per mote (Vigor, Force, Guard, Tempo), that can be improved for a better mote performance.
• Codex - a fifty-slot encyclopedia. Can you fill all of the entries?
• Market - an online feature allowing other users to trade their motes.
• A daily rhythm - login streak rewards and a shop that rotates its eggs every day.
• Offline-first. No account, no connection required, everything runs on the device. Game automatically syncs progress when connection is available. Note: global rankings and market require Internet access to work
• 🏆 Supports Playdate Achievements!

Current state

Inkmotes is an early, playable prototype. There is no official 1.0 release date yet.