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Barrie Lake5 days ago(+1)

There is quite a lot here for a week-long game jam, so well done for getting so much in! I liked the move options available at the start: defend now, buff later, attack and heal or attack and do maximum damage. Well thought out! The pool setting was really unexpected after I read the story description on your game page, though I guess that surprise only emphasises the "strange place" connection to theme. 

I did find a couple of cards confusing, possibly because you get to choose them quite early on. One was prickly shield - "if you block 100% of damage, inflict 0 (DEF 100%) bleed stacks" - why would I want to pick a power that inflicts 0 stacks of bleed (or would it inflict more if my DEF was higher?) 

Another was "if this does attack does more than 10 damage, [some kind of buff]" but then the damage shown on the card does 3 damage - so I guess that base damage is increased by levelling up attack strength? It might just be a case of ordering or could just be me misunderstanding.

Nevertheless, you've made a fun Slay The Spire-like game in an impressively short amount of time, so well done! 

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vespulix5 days ago(+1)

Thanks! :D

In my free time when I couldn't code I jotted down a lot of different ideas for abilities/items to make sure that there were interesting enough decisions for the player! I normally hate when items/relics are just number boosters, so I tried to come up with interesting interactions between different items/abilities as well, but that does lead to a bit of confusion sometimes. :P

For stats that have an expression in the form of X (stats and percentages), that means that that value is based on your own personal stats! So Prickly Shield inflicts bleed on the enemy equal to your DEF stat.  And this updates throughout the game if your DEF is ever changed by temporary or permanent effects, but it definitely seems confusing before you get any DEF.

For the Greatsword (I'm assuming), it activates whenever the player has an attack that does more than 10 damage, and it causes the attack to deal an additional 3 damage (which scales with your ATK as well). It doesn't mean the Greatsword itself has to get to 10 damage with its bonus, but that the player just has to have a 10+ damage attack through any means. I could definitely explain it better though! ^^

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