Not much else to say other than what everyone else has commented. Very polished game, fantastic visuals and audio with addictive game play. Absolutely great work
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In the Cards's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #4 | 4.268 | 4.268 |
| Graphics | #5 | 4.482 | 4.482 |
| Overall | #11 | 4.214 | 4.214 |
| Innovation | #13 | 4.036 | 4.036 |
| Gameplay | #18 | 4.018 | 4.018 |
| Theme interpretation | #117 | 3.446 | 3.446 |
Ranked from 56 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository
https://github.com/anttihaavikko/tarot
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Hallo,
Thank you for sharing your game. I’ve already saved its RATING;
1. verified: GAME due to observed it in the SUBMISSIONS List with keyphrase “card” as filter
2. observed: noticeable background music, sound effects, and voice-overs to remind self of Prof. SNAPE from the HARRY POTTER Movies
3. observed: noticeable animation techniques to remind self of PARAPPA THE RAPPER (PS1)
4. learns: developer of GAME also developed do;MIN(0), rank#1 in Game Off 2021
5. observed: in MAIN GAME, clicked CARD appeared to NOT stay in set position; verified: LEADERBOARDS to learn that GAME appeared to be PLAYABLE; re-verified: MAIN GAME, to learn that the correct technique of putting the CARDS is via dragging them near the border, and then releasing the mouse click to set the CARD in the farthest of that row or column;
6. learns: after verifying putting CARDS immediately where the TARGET STAR is causes a scenario where TARGET is NOT settable by any CARD due to already surrounded by CARDS
7. re-verified: putting CARDS such that the inner positions have CARDS; reached: score of 34,540, when a set of CARDS disappeared due to an EFFECT in a combination of CARDS to cause the TARGET STAR to be NOT anymore settable; adds: at the TIME, observed self to already be verifying the ELAPSED TIME;
8. learns: via SCREENSHOT, “UNDO” button to exist;
9. adds: did NOT yet use available TIME to verify the technique to speed-up the increase in the SCORE; example: which CARDS adjacent to each other causes an increase?, et cetera
10. notes: learnable
Thank you. Health!
Yeah 150k is already good in my books. It's pretty close to my personal record which is around 250k. I did have one 3-4 mil run before I had implemented the leaderboards but the scoring might have been a bit different back then too. Oh and I did pull out one 700k run which I ruined back to zero by a dumb miss play with those minus score skills. And I honestly have no idea how the current #1 spot has achieved that 1 billion score. 🤯
The multiplier multiplies all the score gains. By default you only get score when you "level up" and the amount is based on the empty squares on the board. I didn't feel like explaining this was really necessary. I kinda hate trying to explain things too much cause usually players really don't want to read too much. Probably cause I as a gamer really dislike too lengthy and gameplay interrupting tutorials myself. But I guess throwing a quick message explaining it shortly (like the initial placement messages etc) wouldn't have hurt if timed correctly.
And yeah, transforms and destroys don't do anything else really (on their own). Of course they can be enhanced by some skills to also score or increase multiplier and so on. So destroy basically starts off just like that, making more room to keep playing longer (and having more empty space for bigger scoring too when leveling up).
Thanks for the feedback! ❤️
Well all the effects that happen are destinies that you have chosen yourself. Of course some of their descriptions might be weirdly worded. Undo is only available when your placed card doesn't trigger any destiny effects. Didn't want it to be used to erase tactical mistakes, just mouse slips and that is the closest thing to distinguish them. And it would also be a bit more complex to rewind all those triggered effects.
Thanks! Yeah the RNG is maybe a bit too big of a factor. It's the same for everyone on the dailies though so that's where the real test of skill is. There is a reroll mechanic too but that is behind another destiny that you need to pick first. I kinda wanted to limit the choices to two only to actually have those situations where you'd also need to choose from some not so great options. It serves as a purpose to finally end your otherwise endless god runs too as you'll sooner or later need to ruin your combo with some conflicting destiny. Sure it feels somewhat bad on player aspect but it's required really.
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback!
Maybe the skill is worded a bit weirdly but it doesn't do what you though it did. It reads:
Fill all surrounded empty tiles with ([2]) when placing ([1])
Meaning that it will fill all the empty single tile gaps you have on the board. So it's really meant for patching up some mistakes and it like quite a few other skills has few upgrade skills for it too (available only after getting the base one first) like allowing to fill 2 tile gaps or also scoring when filling with it.
Just having the transforms add some score by themselves would be a bit too good in comparison to everything else. It has quite a high chance of comboing with itself so it might get out of hand quick. Well it does have the downside of transforming randomly so you always have the risk of triggering unwanted things too like all those minus score skills. There are quite a lot of skills that don't really do much by themselves but obviously the column/row transforms take a while to act out and understandably will feel unrewarding.
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