Inventor vs Songwriter: HAMMER and the BATTLE WRENCH gadget

About this game

Developer: Terry Cavanagh · Publisher: Terry Cavanagh · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The gadget-building variant of the board. Where the Robot keeper swaps dice for coins, the Inventor keeps dice but adds a second system beside the cards: a CURRENT GADGET panel that names the gadget in play (here BATTLE WRENCH, 'Combine all dice') and turns the rolled dice into a combined effect, while the HAMMER card beside it still plays by the ordinary slot rules ('Do damage, shock if you roll 6', a 6 already placed). The Inventor's intro dialogue box sits over empty floor at top left and is disclosed here: it is the game's own dialogue UI, not a trailer overlay, and it obscures no card. Frame at about 0:30 in the Launch Trailer (Steam; manual extraction from the fine pass), inspected at full resolution (1920x1080); HAMMER, BATTLE WRENCH panel, FOCUS bar, Inventor 27/28 and Songwriter 34/34 all legible.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

dice-check mechanic-callout status-row

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Banner Vitals bar Slots Dice Dialogue box

Screen inventory

• a yellow HAMMER card with a placed 6 and an empty second slot, reading 'Do damage, shock if you roll 6'
• a purple CURRENT GADGET panel reading 'BATTLE WRENCH — Combine all dice', the Inventor's built gadget for this fight
• a black INVENTOR dialogue box at top left reading 'Just let me finish this new gadget...', the game's own intro dialogue, sitting over empty floor and obscuring no card
• the Inventor at bottom left at 27/28 with a yellow FOCUS bar and a dice x3 counter, and the Songwriter top right at 34/34 with a dice x4 counter

Top 3 colors

#e56f62 27%#e67f70 20%#653238 19%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Terry Cavanagh, Dicey Dungeons screenshot: Steam trailers (Reunion Trailer / Launch Trailer) — Terry Cavanagh, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Terry Cavanagh.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-29. verified 2026-10-29: manual extraction manual-inventor-gadget-alt-30.png @ ~30s in the Launch trailer, MD5 88e3d260f7e174f613b90e3ba00f530a, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (34,541,748 B, MD5 9e621dedbe6980a5967780f6c4897a7d; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines); the HAMMER card with placed 6, CURRENT GADGET BATTLE WRENCH panel, INVENTOR dialogue box, FOCUS bar, Inventor 27/28 and Songwriter 34/34 all legible at full resolution; the dialogue box is in-game UI over empty floor, no trailer marketing overlay in frame

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