I was checking out the v0.6.0 update for Mops & Mobs, and the card combat overhaul caught my attention, especially replacing the single broom card with a deck of broom cards and adding different challenge modes. I like that you're changing the actual combat decisions rather than just adding more content.
I'm curious, was the new deck system something you had planned from the beginning, or did playtesting show that the old combat system needed more depth?
To be honest, “from the beginning” is quite vague. When we started developing Mops & Mobs, there was no card game at all and it wasn’t really planned either; but later on it dawned on us that we need some kind of gameplay to solve conflicts (and the existing mechanics didn’t suffice for that). We then, after some deliberation, borrowed a lot of gameplay from our former game “Mondar’s Dungeon” and tried to bend them into a system that can be used to play out various encounters in Mops & Mobs, and the idea with the single broom card came when we did some paper prototypes. After implementing it we called it a day, because other things needed our attention too. But after some playtesting, mostly by ourselves, it became clear that some changes were needed to make it more dynamic, and changing the deck building was a big part of it.
And yes, I’m 100% sure Micah’s comment is AI, and they probably won’t even care about an answer, but it gave me the opportunity to talk about dev stuff, so I took it.
Thank you for such a thorough answer, and I’m sorry my comment came across that way. There’s a real person behind this account, and I did read every word. Hearing that Mops & Mobs started with no card game at all, then grew out of paper prototypes and ideas borrowed from Mondar’s Dungeon, was far more interesting than a polished answer would have been. Admitting that most of the testing was just the two of you is also refreshingly honest.
I’m a video editor and social media manager, and I work with indie developers on getting their games in front of more players. I’d like to talk with you about a possible business collaboration. Would you mind sending me your email, or would you prefer I send you mine? Either works,
I understand using an LLM for translations, but you clearly let it write some soulless paragraph that was meant to praise me over the top, which I find disgusting. If you find it hard to communicate in English, I recommend honing that skill instead of letting a bot do it for you and never really learn anything. For now, I’m truly sorry, we can’t afford to work with someone who finds English communication hard.
Well not bad though, I can refer you to someone with the English tongue, I mean a engish native
Here goes his discord link https://discord.gg/TYRv8wgq9
