The Dyeing World

About The Dyeing World

A once-vibrant world has fallen into ruin. The World Tree, source of all life and color, has been corrupted, draining the land of its beauty, turning creatures feral, and casting a shadow over nature itself. You play as a fairy guardian, the last hope of a fading world, awakening after the fall to restore balance using the only thing left untainted: light and color.

Story

You are a guardian of nature — an eternal protector linked to the World Tree of your realm. Ages ago, an ancient entity brought decay to the land, stealing its energy and spreading corruption. A legendary guardian once stopped it by collecting pure stones to restore the tree. But now, the entity has returned stronger than ever, and history seems ready to repeat.

After a long slumber, you awaken in a dying world stripped of color, energy, and peace. With only fragments of your power remaining, you must once again find the uncorrupted stones, piece together your past, and fight back against the spreading curse.

Gameplay

The Dyeing World is a 3D platformer adventure, drawing inspiration from classics like Super Mario 64, reimagined through a unique color-based puzzle-combat system.

• Color Alignment Mechanic (R-G-B): Every platform in the game has a hidden Red, Green, or Blue color. Reveal a platform’s color using your light orb, and switch your own color to match it. Only aligned colors allow you to stand — mismatches will cause you to fall.

• Light Orb Abilities: Use light orbs to reveal hidden platforms, solve environmental puzzles, and attack enemies from range. The orb is your main tool for both exploration and combat.

• R-G-B Combat System: Enemies follow a Rock-Paper-Scissors-style weakness cycle tied to their color. You’ll need to match your color effectively to take down both ground and flying units, while dodging projectiles and melee attacks.

• Challenging Platforming & Puzzles: As you progress, you’ll encounter complex level design, environmental hazards, and tricky color-based puzzles that demand both precision and strategy.

What to Expect

• Enemies that match their environment — blending into forests, caves, ruins, and more.

• Environmental hazards such as corrupted ground, disappearing paths, and projectile traps.

• Hidden pictograms, ruins, and relics that slowly reveal the guardian’s forgotten past.

• A vibrant visual contrast between corruption and color, with each level becoming more vivid as you restore life to the land.

 

Key Features

• Unique RGB-based platforming and combat

• Light orb mechanics for revealing, attacking, and solving puzzles

• Challenging platforming with color-coded hazards

• Enemies with environmental synergy and color weaknesses

• Exploration-driven progression across diverse biomes

• A heartfelt, lore-rich narrative of memory and restoration

Copyright & Attribution

All music, sound effects, and external assets used in The Dyeing World are either original, royalty-free, or appropriately credited under their respective licenses. 

Assets

Low Poly Nature by Vertex Rage Studio 

RPG Tiny Fantasy Forest by Dungeon Mason 

Mixed VFX by G. G. 

Music 

Fantasy by NotProd from Pixabay 

Meet the Team

Shreyash - Team Lead, Lead Programmer

Abhinav - 3D Artist

Fatima - Concept Artist

Nitish - Level Designer, Sound Artist

Rithvikh- Unreal Programmer

Sakshi - Level Designer

Special Thanks

Pranav - Inorganic Artist

Prithvi - Artist

Sukumar - Designer