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does it matter that the cards are free.

It seems like the one thing people notice about the bats.

nice
played nice on gamepad.

I keep getting invalid zip archive when I d/l this?

Others have mentioned, but i think because there is a shoot button for each direction instead of just being a twinstick shooter.

thanks for the detailed write up.
Not sure how to make it less generic.

thanks for the suggestions

I am playing windows laptop with keyboard and mouse.

I might've had a controller plugged in.

what are the expectations of a extraction shooter? More weapons/enemies? bigger maps with more objectives?

thanks for playing, I can speed up the bullets.

Also there are different weapons you can swap with scroll wheel.

nice game. sets up mysteries and plays well. controller would be nice.

very hard to distinguish background and interactable. Could use sounds for pickup and hurt.

looking for ideas on more content (battles)

ideas on leaders without battlecries. currently the battlecry is your hero power.

also you can make your own cards in the mods menu

Very early prototype.

Looking for what direction to take this. 

I was thinking about this, I think if the 'bad effect' happened after you place a piece, it would feel a lot fairer. That way the player is able to mitigate the effect or play around it by smart placing.

I tried J and didn't seem to make a difference.

I've wondered about the Daffodils leader being too powerful. I don't know if it means the leader system is fundamentally broken or I need to adjust her specifically.

thanks for playing

Also, some UI elements feels a bit weird. For example, the hero power of your character requires you to hold the mouse click to then select the target. If you just click it (as I did, expecting a "click to activate --> click to select target"), then it default to hitting yourself. I had similar kind of issues with battlecry cards.

I am torn on this, because if you had a battlecry where you wanted to target yourself like a heal, there' no way to distinguish intent. I will think about this.

For the art, it's from a asset pack. I am wondering if going full AI would actually improve the art...
The overall theme of the game is Heaven vs Hell in a fantasy world.

The synergies are there. many Hearthstone Launch archetypes are fully implemented. Maybe they're not as obvious because you're not forced to use the cards in a certain class.

I played keyboard

It's pretty much a knockoff hearthstone. Pretty much all the mechanics are the same as far as I'm aware, which makes it easy to pick up, but hard to sell on why anyone would play it. 

There is a game Shandalar which is "MTG but singleplayer" which has some fans and I was thinking a Hearthstone version would be similarly interesting.

I wonder if Dungeon progress x/7 which fills up would be enough for people to try and beat each dungeon.

It looked like this and I couldn't click on any of the menu options. Windows 11 btw.

I thought the hard battle was the games way of saying "wink wink try cheating"