Hello! I'm Zegenerate, Zegen for short, and I've been wanting to make a game for a long time. I've been making prototypes for years, but never actually finished anything. So, I figured for this year, why not share the random prototypes I make and see if any catch some interest? I hope this is the right forum to post about this in because I plan on showing multiple projects in one post over time. Although if any project on here gets popular enough, then I'll update it based on feedback.

The first game is a rather simple card game. https://zegenerate.itch.io/zegen-card-alpha-1 I've thought of a bunch of characters for stories over the years, so I shoved them into this card game. You pick 6 cards to build a deck, although you'll start with all 6 cards in your hand. You and your opponent will play cards at the same time, switching back and forth between who gets to have their card effects resolve and attack first. The goal is to play cards and those cards have special abilities and an Attack value. They'll deal damage equal to their Attack value while also providing benefits like healing, manipulating cards, or being able to raise their Attack value to deal even more damage! There's around 18 cards to build a deck around. There are also 3 AI decks to face off against. The game will choose one at random for you to face off against. You can find a How To Play video on the game's page that goes into further detail and also provides some tips!

All feedback and criticism is encouraged! I am hoping to find people willing to try out these prototypes and let me know if it's something they are interested in seeing developed further. If you did not enjoy the game, let me know why and I'll update the game based on feedback. I appreciate everyone who gave this post a read, and here's hoping to a fun year of game development!

Update! I made a second prototype. This one took longer than I would have liked. I struggled to think of what to do with it, but I think I came up with something that might work!

My second alpha!

This one is a deck-drafting autobattler. You start with a really simple card called An Attack, then draft 4 cards to add to the deck along with it. Once you're done drafting, the other characters will draft their decks. You'll then pick 3 people to join your team based on what their decks look like. Once your team is assembled, you'll enter a 4v4 battle where the enemy team will choose a combatant for a stand off. You'll then be allowed to pick someone to challenge the enemy in a stand off. They'll both take turns playing a random card from their deck and the stand off ends when someone is defeated or if both participants can no longer play cards. The battle will loop between picking participants for a stand off and then the stand off until the stage is over. The stage is over when a team has been wiped out! There's currently only a singular stage. When it ends, you'll be sent back to draft a new deck to play again.

It's been a while! 69 days since my last post. Fitting, because this is the (late) April Fool's game! Who is the joke on? Me! It's admittedly pretty similar to my last project, but I tried to get a bit stranger with the cards this time. Also, this time you can play it directly on the browser instead of needing to download the executable!

https://zegenerate.itch.io/situationally-funny-rpg