I don't know how to feel about this one. The art is nice, the fact that this is engine-less is impressive and all... but what's the game about? Just playing every card I could at every turn seemed to do the trick. I am very curious about what the original vision was.

Hi - can you please confirm that you made all the assets in the game and didn't use generative AI to create them please!

Congratulations on a team effort, especially to first timers! To me it's more impressive that you've managed to work something out with so many people, then the game itself.
Liked the presentation, but gameplay - not so much, since (if I'm not missing anything) it boils down to "drop shieldy card on da boys, spiky - on da enemies".

now the real question - did that ever happen?)

This was so cute. Oddly, I felt 0 stress while playing. It kind of took me back to my last Inscryption playthrough, especially with the map. The art is very warming and the music is fitting that.

Some stuff that could use improving: UX design, mostly. It took quite a whole to figure out what the mana balls at the top right were,  my characters were getting hidden behind the cards so I couldn't really tell who I was until I ran out of cards. Enemies felt a bit non-threatening, but that could be attributed to the absence of animations.

All in all,  Kudos!

Slay the spire, but HTML god version! :D  Art is very nice to look at, the music is nice! And the idea is good!

Background looks great
Music is really nice, even if it probably needs to be balanced a little (especially with the credits music)

The battle needs some feedback (for attacks etc)
You also need to tell the player the card effects (even if it's on your page)
This kind of card game relies on strategy, and it doesn't seem like there is any strategy right now

There's also a little bug when you drag cards

GG for the custom engine though!!
That's impressive

The game page is also really nice

So, finished playing and here's my review:

1. The art is really done well, although I would love to have better animations for actions. But the variety of enemies is complementing the lack of animations for me. Music is amazing, a lot of biomes is also a nice touch, in general this feels like a lot of content (I only counted 3 biomes and 5 enemies, unsure if there were more)

2. The difficulty of the game is nicely balanced, I had time and opportunities to heal and sustain damage while waiting for damaging type of card.

3. I haven't really noticed visual indicators. I believe that's because of custom engine, but would be nice to have at some damage numbers or heal numbers appear above enemy/player. It was also difficult to know what each type of card does - I'd say its better to have at least a text above them to say that some of them are damage cards, and others are healing cards.

4. I have noticed some bugs, probably it's also related to the custom engine. For example, sometimes the card at hand is hidden and I had to manually drag them to know what cards do I have

5. At first I didn't really understand the mechanics, but it's not very difficult to manage without a tutorial.

Overall, it's very impressive considering the custom engine you used. Keep making games, I want to see more of those!

I like the visuals, and the mix between jrpg and card game combat seems quite interesting!

But the game really lacks any feedback to player actions.

• There’s now way to know what exactly the card does, with some even after you played it a couple times.
• Shop price and mana cost use the same UI element. Which means you won’t know how much mana the card costs, and may end up buying 10 mana card thinking it’s only 1 mana, which is useless most of the times.
• The card draw mechanic isn’t explained and really unintuitive. Sometimes you spend mana to draw, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes the card gets hidden behind your hand and you ahve no way on interacting with it. And on later turns you’ll just end up with a lot of mana and no cards to use it on.
  • To that point, why not give one card automatically at the start of the turn, and then let player draw any number of cards for mana?
• “?” just skipping feels like a bug, maybe some placeholder text would help with that.

All in all, the fact that you can’t result predict the result of your actions or of enemy actions makes the combat really random. It’s a fun random, but I it kinda makes the game not worth replaying.

Nevertheless, good job!

The HTML wizardry on show is insane. The game was built without a game engine and is so feature full and made with love it's absolutely insane.

So I like to write these things by getting the bad stuff outta the way first so let's do just that. The battle system honestly makes no sense to me at all. It really just felt like "random bull**** go!" every turn of just throwing cards at the enemy and honestly it worked for 99% of the game and I felt pretty much indestructible. Sometimes though when I tried to draw a card it just disappeared or showed up in my deck the round later but still flipped over and all around lots of very messy card interactions that had me thinking "is this a bug or am I doing it wrong?". The battle system was not really fun at all and without any information on what the cards actually did other than figuring it out via trial and error it was pretty much just all over the place.

The art is fantastic from start to end. The cards look fantastic I especially loved the animated ones. The shop keeper looked great as did the background and UI but the characters and monsters were SO much larger scaled compared to everything else it really broke the cohesion of the game for me. There's some weird scaling all over the place such as the characters looking too thin/squished and most of the monsters just being tiny sprite that have been re-sized 10x. Regardless of all the scaling issues it didn't make much of a difference in my enjoyment of the game and I still thought it looked really cool throughout. Not to mention the number of different backgrounds and enemies!

The audio was absolutely fantastic the music throughout the game was great and so well done and fitting but then when I finished the game... what the hell was that song? Hahaha it had such a British sense of "F*** it we're done let's just put something stupid and fun in that we care about". I actually loved it, felt very Monty Python nonsensical and just fun.

The pacing of the game was fine until I got to the end boss when it totally kicked my *** and pulling constant bad cards without being able to heal kinda sucked. I wish I could just keep pulling cards if I had energy cos having 10 energy and then just wasting it all every turn cos I had no cards to play felt kinda crap.

Overall an insanely well done game built in sprite of the various game engines available these days and is a pure technical and artistic marvel. I wish I enjoyed the battle system more but honestly with everything else going on for the game it's still super fun and clearly made with a lot of love.

I liked the concept, but the game is basically Slay The Spire made on a game Jam. Which makes it hard not to look at all the unpolished things. Here's a list of my thoughts playing:

• Despite getting more actions every turn, I have nothing to do with those actions and I end up playing the top card every time. Could be improved by removing the card draw limit of one per turn and have it cost an action instead.
• The game does not tell me I have to drag the cards out of the deck. Is not really intuitive.
• Cards don't tell me what they do. So I just end up doing whatever rather than plan a strategy.
• I have no hint on what does any card do, so I have no idea what to pick at shop, which apparently just gives anything for free, but only once. I picked a castle thinking it was a good defense card and it only heals a little, so I just shot myself on the foot.
• I can just skip the whole level by clicking '?'
• The art is really nice.
• I really liked the credits.

Sorry if my comment is to straight forward and negative. Not my intention to offend. I understand that the team is mostly new people for such an ambitious concept and because of the credits I can see you all did your best and had fun. This is my third jam and looking at the results, the games with the most simple concepts and fewer mechanics always come out on top.  Hope you all keep going forward and improve further.

This was a fun game to play! I really liked the art and music. I enjoyed the battle system too. The concept is fun too!

Here's some feedback if y'all choose to expand on this:

• I didn't realize I had to draw a card each round at first. Even after I learned I frequently forgot. Still got through the game fine! In a way it made things unique and fun for me a bit--it reminded me of forgetting to do something during my turn in a real-world card game, which is pretty uncommon with games like this. I can't tell right now if there's ever a reason to not draw a card though. It could be interesting to give the player more of a reason to opt out of this.
• Sometimes it seemed like my card disappeared when I tried to draw it. I don't know if that meant I immediately applied it or not. Might be a bug?
• Sometimes it felt a bit difficult to actually pick the card out of my hand, might just be something with detecting where the mouse is or what card it's supposed to be over.
• The question marks on the map seem to just skip levels? Or maybe I got lucky/unlucky haha. 
• I couldn't tell what the ice/blizzard card does.

Overall, great work y'all! It's awesome how much y'all got done for the jam!

edit: my comment originally duplicated for some reason, but leaving this one too because it has a reply :)

Great job Quinten! Also awesome to see you picking up some new jammers! The game is so cool and it feels cool to collect new cards and stuff. Some small animation for game feedback would've been helpful, at the beginning I didn't realize if I was doing something. Otherwise great art and awesome gameplay!