Nice card game. Missed some information about the damage that each opponent can deal, and missed some SFX, but the game is fun and engaging.
Nice entry! Congrats!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Mechanics | #50 | 3.355 | 3.355 |
| Fun | #77 | 3.161 | 3.161 |
| Story | #77 | 2.774 | 2.774 |
| Overall | #81 | 3.290 | 3.290 |
| Music | #85 | 3.097 | 3.097 |
| Theme | #114 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Aesthetics | #144 | 3.032 | 3.032 |
| Sound | #214 | 1.774 | 1.774 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
4 - 2x Developer, Game Designer, Graphic Designer
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
monster lizard; character elf; fantasy spider; monster mutant 7; monster catfish; monster rake; Halloween music by: Sascha Ende; basic bedroom starterpack;
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Oh, very nice card game. Managed to beat it on my first try:
Already scrolled through some of the other comments to see what additional feedback I can give you:
- The art work is really nice. I wish those designs were used for the monsters and the player models. Have you guys considered maybe 2.5D?
- It looks a bit odd having all the monsters lined up in a single row. A 2x2 formation might look better.
- The damage effect feels a little off, not a big fan of how it currently looks.
- It might help to let the player know what the possible outcomes are when playing the Joker.
- At first, I thought “Deal 5 damage to random opponent 7 times” means hitting the same opponent 7 times.
159 days ago(+1)
It's 1920x1080, so if you launch it in full screen, you shouldn't have any problems here.
With a lack of sounds, it was a fight for life to finish the game on time, and we really regret leaving sound design for last now, but we really did whatever we could in the given time. The project was a little too ambitious for our first-ever game jam, and we spent every single moment of free time working on it. If we had another day or two, I'm sure all the problems people mentioned in the comments would be addressed, with the lack of sounds on top of that.
And I agree that our choice of main character could be better, but in Unity Asset Store I found it hard to find anything better suited to the style of the monsters and other assets that we already used in game, so if anything, that's my fault. Sorry for that!
Sure, that’s totally understandable and for a jam you guys done a great job!
Regarding the iframe, 1920x1080 is a too much of a size for the single container on the web page to my taste. I mean iframe size is the size of the block dedicated for the game viewport on the page, it does not define the size of the game viewport when you open it in a full screen mode.
Here are screenshotы of how I see the game page. There is a chance others see it the same way.
159 days ago(+1)
Could you try it now? I'm a little worried that could make some problems to users who will launch game before they click on full screen mode button.
159 days ago (+1)
We are all gamers, so we have 2k monitors, that's probably why we didn't think about it before :)
159 days ago(+1)
My imagination tells me that we will find some dude who will play like this soon, and roast us in the comments xD
As a fan of card games, this one was right up my alley and youve done a fantastic job with it. Loved pretty much all aspects of the game from the story and tiie-in with the theme, the gameplay mechanics, balance and variety, music and overall look. Just a few suggestions which could probably make it even better - For playing the card once you select it clicking was not very intuitive and also not very responsive. You could add some sort of feedback after clicking of the card. And speaking of feedbacks, i think adding a few more especially for the damage ones would really make them pop! Other minor points are that after every run i got the same 3 cards of 'Heal completely' - dont know whether that was intentional, but maybe could add some more powerups? Overall though this was a great effort and i really had fun with it. Hoping that you continue with the project post the jam :)
Yeah I explained all those in previous comments. We had it all in plans but time was not on our side here and we have done what we could.
Thank you personally for the feedback, because I was responsible for all cards effects, monsters, and balancing, so I'm glad someone noticed my work I've done here to make game interesting and engaging :)
Yeah, about card targeting, we had plans to put a glowing border around a card you clicked on and the same glowing border around potential targets to show where you can click on, but as always, we just ran out of time.
And about the rewards, healing the player completely was previously only a 3rd option. We had added a new gold card to the player's deck at slot one and deleted a brown card from the deck on slot two. We even had prepared UI for those, but after some thinking, we knew that we would have to show the deck structure to the player, and we didn't have time for this functionality. And after the deadline, we decided not to add those other rewards even if it was partially coded into the game, because we are unsure this could disqualify us for adding new content reasons.
159 days ago(+1)
This was our first attempt at a game jam, and honestly, we had no idea our project would require so much work to complete. You can hover over the cards before clicking to read a card completely with a cost visible.
There's a rule that golden cards cost 3, and all others cost 1.
159 days ago(+1)
Our Graphic Designer got vague ilustrations from Chat GPT, then worked on them to put them into cards She prepared herself. It's worth mentioning that those ilustrations were mono toned strong into brown colour looking like made in some medieval book. She made those ilustrations alive, and put them into well prepared card frames.
About sound we had it in plans but we simply lacked of time.
You have energy ball showing 3/3 - 0/3, is that not enough?
Glad you like our game :)
159 days ago(+1)
We were worried about card readability on lower resolutions and those had priority over everything else. Thus after we finally reached our golden solution we found not so much space to anything else. Anyway it's there and suggestion to animate it somehow will be remembered to updates after Gamejam finish :)
161 days ago (+1)
Yeah... we really wanted an animated, or at least talking TV that would put mean comments during gameplay to give you a glimpse of this evil pressence from it, but the scope of the game was a little too big and we did whatever we could. We even prepared some voice lines for it :D
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