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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG[=/=]GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called ''The Wizard's Tower'', an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.

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''Pop Up ''Popup Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG[=/=]GameMaker produced by Triple B Triple.B.Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages.''VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages''. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called ''The Wizard's Tower'', an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.
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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG / GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called ''The Wizard's Tower'', an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.

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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG / GameMaker StrategyRPG[=/=]GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called ''The Wizard's Tower'', an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.
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* FinalDeath: If Gooliette dies, she's gone for good.

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* FinalDeath: {{Permadeath}}: If Gooliette dies, she's gone for good.
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* InfinityPlusOneElement: [[spoiler:You're going to want to have plenty of light-users in your party, since demons end up being the primary antagonist.]]

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* InfinityPlusOneElement: [[spoiler:You're going to want to have plenty of light-users spirit-users in your party, since demons end up being the primary antagonist.]]
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* ''Expy'':

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* Expy:''Expy'':


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* NoOntologicalInertia: When a character dies, any effects that they were responsible for immediately expire.
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* ShoutOut: ''Loads'' of them, spread throughout enemies, allies and abilities.

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* ShoutOut: ''Loads'' [[ShoutOut/PopUpDungeon Loads of them, them]], spread throughout enemies, allies and abilities.
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* ShoutOut: 'loads' of them, spread throughout enemies, allies and abilities.

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* ShoutOut: 'loads' ''Loads'' of them, spread throughout enemies, allies and abilities.
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* Expy:
** ''Thor''ian is a paladin who's looks and mannerisms are clearly based on ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''.
** Maceson is basically ''{{ComicBook/Blade}}'', except he hunts demons rather than vampires.
** Ricky is a parody of Captain Kirk, from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''


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* ShoutOut: 'loads' of them, spread throughout enemies, allies and abilities.
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* CameBackWrong: Gameplay-only example with the charm you get for completing Sweetwater. It revives your party members once per battle, but also confuses them.
* ThePlague: Your goal is to find a cure to it.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:You set off to find the feathers of a T'owl, but you can cure the plague without them. It's even lampshaded in the ending.]]
* InfinityPlusOneElement: [[spoiler:You're going to want to have plenty of light-users in your party, since demons end up being the primary antagonist.]]
* RichBastard: Von Imp. His family sells water from a magical spring that supposedly cures all ailments. [[spoiler:The water really was magic, but he keeps selling it even though it became corrupted decades ago.]]
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** PromotedToPlayable: An update gives you a download code for an official playable version of her, but only if she survives to the end.
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* SharedUniverse: The game is implied to take place in the same world as VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages.

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* SharedUniverse: The game is implied to take takes place in the same world universe as VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages.
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* BigBad: The Wizard

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* BigBad: The WizardWizard. He intends to steal your creativity, and with it, doom the world. [[spoiler:Though the ending reveals that he just wanted to guide you into playing more.]]



* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: So what does The Wizard look like, exactly? [[spoiler: Turns out he was masquerading as the game's logo.]]

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* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: So what does The Wizard look like, exactly? [[spoiler: Turns out he was masquerading as the game's logo. According to him, he took that form because humans are attracted to emojis.]]

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* NamesTheSame: Orin the Wizard (a playable character built into the game) isn't to be confused with The Wizard.


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* OneSteveLimit: Subverted; there's a playable character named Orin the Wizard, but he's different from the NPC known as The Wizard.
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* CompetitiveBalance: The game auto-balances custom characters and abilities.
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* LevelScaling: The game automatically scales encounter difficulty relative to both your party's current power level, as well as the power of the [[{{Macrogame}} charms]] you have equipped. Content creators can turn this off in their own games if they like, however.
* {{Macrogame}}: Playing through stories (both official and otherwise) gives you gold that you can spend to purchase charms from the vending machine, which you can use to buff your party with permanent boosts.

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* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Ding Bat.



* SlimeGirl: Gooliette, a cube-shaped Squell who can join your party if you help pay off her debt. Downplayed in that her species is genderless despite her TertiarySexualCharacteristics, [[spoiler: though that doesn't stop her from falling in love with you.]]

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* OptionalPartyMember: Gooliette.
* SlimeGirl: Gooliette, a cube-shaped Squell who can join your party if you help pay off her debt. Downplayed in that her species is genderless despite her TertiarySexualCharacteristics, [[spoiler: though that doesn't stop her from falling in love with you.you if she survives to the end of the game.]]

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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG / GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called The Wizard's Tower, an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.

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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG / GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called The ''The Wizard's Tower, Tower'', an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.



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[[folder:Tropes Exclusive to Sweetwater]]''Sweetwater'']]



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[[folder:Tropes Exclusive to Run Home]]''Run Home'']]
* FinalDeath: If Gooliette dies, she's gone for good.
* SlimeGirl: Gooliette, a cube-shaped Squell who can join your party if you help pay off her debt. Downplayed in that her species is genderless despite her TertiarySexualCharacteristics, [[spoiler: though that doesn't stop her from falling in love with you.]]
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* StylisticSuck: Enemies are literally cardboard cut-outs with images pasted onto them, while dialogue portraits are cheap-looking popsicle-stick puppets.
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''Pop Up Dungeon'' is a 2020 StrategyRPG / GameMaker produced by Triple B Titles, creators of VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages. The game features robust, easy-to-use tools that allow anyone to easily create and share new characters, enemies, and even entire stories and game modes. For the less creatively inclined, the game also features a 16-level campaign called The Wizard's Tower, an arena mode, as well as two story campaigns; the fantasy-themed ''Sweetwater'' and the Sci-fi themed ''Run Home''.

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* BigBad: The Wizard
* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: So what does The Wizard look like, exactly? [[spoiler: Turns out he was masquerading as the game's logo.]]
* NamesTheSame: Orin the Wizard (a playable character built into the game) isn't to be confused with The Wizard.
* GreatGazoo: The Wizard set up the entire game for his amusement.
* RealityWarper: The Wizard has the ability to bend the game world to his whim. [[PaintingTheMedium He demonstrates this by being the only character who's dialogue portrait lacks a popsicle stick.]]
* TheVoiceless: Inverted; The Wizard is the only character in the game who has full voice acting.
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[[folder:Tropes Exclusive to Sweetwater]]
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* SharedUniverse: The game is implied to take place in the same world as VideoGame/RingRunnerFlightOfTheSages.
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