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GURU

By tomenluca

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor114.30
Coolness1100
Overall414.06
Innovation623.92
Fun663.89
Mood1343.79
Graphics2104.02
Theme6683.52

Comments

red_fan-games 2015-12-15 01:27

Simply amazing! I love every bit of it! 5/5 in all categories!

deviousdeviation 2015-12-15 01:36

Really fun. Though battles(?) can take a while.

eingya 2015-12-15 01:41

Took a while for me to get the mechanic (really needs some sort of tutorial), but once I did I had fun.

Simple, but engaging enough mechanics and the theming is great.

erwann-depaeuw 2015-12-15 01:47

wow this game is awesome !! I spent half an hour playing it, it's fun, well polished, graphics are basic pixel art but really efficient in this type of game. Congratulations ! :D

nidzakornjaca 2015-12-15 02:41

Cool game, well polished.
Gets a bit repetitive though.

gene-z 2015-12-15 11:10

VERY GOOD,, congrats

prymidion 2015-12-15 11:15

Excellent!

robert_steiner 2015-12-15 11:28

These battles are intense.

javicepa 2015-12-15 11:53

Amazing execution!! Really good use of the tweens and very good look overall. Catchy music too :)

losttraindude 2015-12-15 12:36

It's the first card game I have ever found on the LD database (of course there could be a thousand others).

I loved the Random Event: sometimes a life saver, sometimes a killer, sometimes saves everything from stalemate. Simple, yet great feature!

Loved, of course, the humor and the whole quote yelling at each round.

While I did beat the game, I didn't always figure out what happened (i.e. why sometimes I didn't get or lost followers after some specific action, etc.), but it's perfectly fine. You did a great job in the short time span we had :D

Congratulations!

bubsypoochies 2015-12-15 13:07

Loved the concept of the game, it's both hilarious and fresh! Followers commenting as they change sides are the best, we had a great time playing it. Wish the combat system had a bit more depth, but for a ludum dare project it feels more than enough.
Presentation wise it's varied and dynamic, wish you guys keep working on the project. The world needs less quotes and more games making smart fun of them. Great work!

publicidadeba 2015-12-15 13:11

Clever and funny :D :D

treslapin 2015-12-15 13:13

Really fun!

mat1er 2015-12-15 13:16

Maybe saving would make the game better (because he's long)

koocachookies 2015-12-15 14:08

Awesome! I played it till the very end and i loved it! Congrats!

schizophrenicghost 2015-12-15 14:25

Love the quotes, graphics, and UI. Very funny! The mechanic was a bit confusing at first, but really easy to pick up quickly. Its definitely challenging and can sometimes take a while, but I was entertained and now I need to unlock Bob Ross! Seriously great game! Good job!

theviraldragon 2015-12-15 14:41

Nice!!

esayitch 2015-12-15 15:01

Very stylish and original! Sounds got a bit repetitive but the game has a lot of soul (heh) and character. Great artwork, concept, and gameplay. Well-done! Good luck :)

burgerdare 2015-12-15 15:12

Wow! This is a surprisingly well fleshed out card game! I'm impressed! I feel like some of the nitty gritty details were a little poorly explained, but I had a good time overall building up karma and countering my opponent's cards. Overall, a very interesting, funny, and enjoyable game!

x92rwzb 2015-12-15 15:34

Amazing! It is so well made. I liked the things that the gurus said!

rudenko 2015-12-15 18:10

Awesome!!!

lurils 2015-12-15 18:24

that was actually very fun, nicely done.

local306 2015-12-15 18:28

Dang, outwitted every time haha

danthedev 2015-12-15 20:05

I really enjoyed the wittiness in this game, the idea of gaining and loosing followers to people is really cool

I had two main criticisms:
1. I didnt quite understand why I couldn't choose certain cards sometimes
2. There only seemed to be one correct card to every round and sometimes you couldn't pick that card

These problems though I feel would be ironed out given more time. Solid idea dude!

taffaz 2015-12-15 20:32

Cool game, I love how you used Jaden Smith as a guru.

chabuduo 2015-12-15 21:04

Fantastic work! Played for a good hour.
some bugs, there are neutral people drawn even it the count is zero
also a bit funky when the same card is present twice in your hand ( it shakes)
Great game!

jomomomo 2015-12-15 22:21

Wow. Awesome job!

broknecho 2015-12-15 22:32

Really cool concept for a card game. Karma pool worked pretty well! Sometimes the randomness of the cards would be a little tough to get a counter but overall great execution.

Was fun even if the battles were a little long.

goutye 2015-12-15 22:53

I beat Bob Ross o/ 743, I don't think I was great but great games dudes!

ithildin 2015-12-15 23:59

Perfect five here, I was smiling the whole time I played the games. The idea is brilliantly executed, quotes are hilarious and visuals were really cool, too.

Amazing job! :D

peekotus 2015-12-16 00:09

5/5 in all catagories this is so awesome! Needs more people to battle!

thirteenthspiral 2015-12-16 00:44

Really fun but if you die once you have to restart :/

ruerob 2015-12-16 04:51

Great art here! Both of you have done a good job here! It looks like you were a good team! Keep up the good work!

darkavenger211 2015-12-16 05:30

Really cool game, I got stuck in a situation VS gandalf where I no matter what cards were chosen neither of us could gain or lose followers, and random events never occured :(
Restarting fixed this and it was perfect, I had to restart though.

ninjascript 2015-12-16 05:46

This is awesome! The balance seems weighted towards a reeealy long end battle, but it's a blast getting there. Fabulous job all around!

paperboxstudios 2015-12-16 06:25

Better than Hearthstone.

nowandstudios 2015-12-16 07:36

I love card games. Nice game and good jod with the humor!

adafish 2015-12-16 07:43

This is excellent. The cards & gurus are hilarious and the art and audio are great. Really unique take on the theme, too. Great job!

mukult 2015-12-16 08:42

Damn I got outwitted...
Heheh!! The battles take a while to complete... maybe a way to make them a little bit more faster somehow! :)

astro-cat 2015-12-16 09:19

Very nice and funny concept! Gameplay is addictive!

videodog 2015-12-16 09:56

Fantastic Game! Great Job!

gamepopper 2015-12-16 13:58

This is a really well-made card game, it's surprisingly well balanced.
Not to mention I love the gurus and their references, the dialogue can be really funny sometimes. I cannot put this game down...uh stop playing I mean.

firellon 2015-12-16 14:21

Everything is excellent BUT connection with the theme. Rated 5/5 everything else, though

jpdev 2015-12-16 15:02

Took me a moment to get it.
Pretty different from all the action games I played so far.
Good job :)

sam-twidale 2015-12-16 15:38

Incredibly funny.

The simple pixel art graphics go surprisingly well with the bouncy tweening motion you used a lot. Nice work.

cgriff 2015-12-16 18:38

A tutorial would have been great, but it's a cool idea executed with style!

oberynmartell 2015-12-16 18:48

Wow! Really fun game! Could not pass Gandolfo! lol
Loved te art and the mechanics! Well done!

diebackstudios 2015-12-16 19:24

:D amazing graphics mate i love it Pixel art is love <3 Good Job

cirpig29 2015-12-16 20:07

Very nice and innovative.

newbeings 2015-12-16 20:13

Awesome job! So much content for LD. Well done.

It seems like the strategy is to play cards that counter? Seemed to get me through pretty easily. That may be the first thing to balance/tweak if you keep working on it.

shellbot 2015-12-16 20:40

Best game I've played so far. Really well done. Battle can drag on for a bit, but it's still very fun

gornova 2015-12-16 20:51

I love it !! Really good game, perfect theme! Well done!

randomhuman 2015-12-16 22:09

Jaden Smith is kicking my ass.

dj_pale 2015-12-16 22:28

Great job, played all the battles to the end with 130 points - although I still did not understand the extent to which I actually gained followers and had to turn off the audio loop :P Anyway - overall a solid game.

guoboism 2015-12-17 01:01

WOW! Great job! Likes:
Pixel arts,
God game,
Card game,
Funny lines

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-17 01:41

I don't know what to say but simply awesome! It is good to see fresh new games here! Please, keep working on the game!

tribrain 2015-12-17 05:02

Excellent game! very innovative

krafty 2015-12-17 06:54

This game was really fun, great concept! I got stuck on Arnold Schwarzenegger though, I wasn't getting random events and none of my cards or his were having any effect on our guys. It looks and sounds great!

imyellowfish 2015-12-17 07:48

best game I have come with. 5/5 for almost all catogories! Love this game!

randomhuman 2015-12-17 10:50

I feel like my previous comment didn't express how much I like this game. It's fucking awesome, in every category.

pjimmy 2015-12-17 11:44

lol, one of funniest I've played so far, also creative, polished and engaging, well done! :D

cremagames 2015-12-17 11:52

Awesome. It's so bizarre it can't be bad.

drfallos 2015-12-17 11:59

Interesting game! Growing crowd is good idea. Nice humans and guru)

hotboxgames 2015-12-17 15:53

Hilarious, Great job!
The quotes were and the follower's lines when they changed gurus were very amusing, I enjoyed Gondolf the most ^_^

ohmaigawd 2015-12-17 17:46

This was fun! Very poished and humorous :D

sir-magic 2015-12-17 19:24

Loved it! Felt like a war of trying to make comebacks!

abuzreq 2015-12-17 22:20

Wow! , really good !

lawendt 2015-12-18 00:27

Loved it!

radmars 2015-12-18 02:31

I LOST AND DIDN'T GET TO FACE BOB ROSS, RUINED/10

Seriously though, this is awesome. I just wish you didn't start over when you died! Only other issue is that the battles are a bit tedious, but otherwise this is great. Nice work.

acerio 2015-12-18 06:42

I need a downloadable version of this game, it's too much fun

sunshiranui 2015-12-18 09:53

This is a 5 out of 5 for me. Very well done!

warboys 2015-12-18 13:21

Wow, just brilliant stuff. Nails absolutely everything. Only criticism I have is that the actual gameplay itself doesn't seem that deep, and the communication of why and how followers join you is a little off. Really innovative concept though and the theme is excellent.

Great job!

kaype 2015-12-18 13:41

Damn, lots of polish on this one.

Also to make stuff look more pixel-y you might wanna filter your textures with nearest neighbor.

bradur 2015-12-18 14:17

Terrific game! We lost to Arnold :(. But the gameplay & cards were absolutely hilarious. Everything fit together very well. Good job!

urbanhelsing 2015-12-18 14:37

Finally beat Bob Russ, took a long time. Final score: 242.
Good game.

weeping-rupee 2015-12-18 14:49

This game is pretty great-- this and "No Hobo" are the funniest game I've played thus far but this one isnt laugh out loud funny, its a smarter kinda funny.

This may be splitting hairs because there definitely is a learning curve and a strategy to this game but sometimes I feel like the best strategy is simply to always counter if you can and meditate if you can't and none of the conditionals in the card descriptions are in your favor. This isn't to say that I never had a moment where I was torn between which card to choose because there were times where that happened but it felt rare. Maybe I was misunderstanding the main mechanics, I don't know. Either way, with some slight tweaking this game is nearly a finished product.

You are a Pro TomenLuca, congrats.

fullmontis 2015-12-18 19:58

This is a well done game with an interesting design. I think you did a great job in making it fun and balanced. And the humor is great!

jofra 2015-12-18 20:13

Took a while for me to get the mechanic right :S
But this is a very cool and very polished game!!
Awesome job

drteaspoon 2015-12-19 02:32

Lacking in terms of devotion to the jam theme. Loved the game though. Would be fun as proper card/deck building game. Though would have preferred for the game to take turns at who shows card first. Was too easy to manage hand to fit all purposes.

euske 2015-12-19 04:51

Although the gameplay was a bit tedious (as I was mostly presenting whatever countering card at that moment), but overall it's very well made. Congrats!

richardboegli 2015-12-19 06:28

Liked the graphics and music.

The quotes were funny, enjoyed them a lot.

canon 2015-12-19 06:35

Really refreshing seeing a card game on here! As someone who likes board games, I think this is extra cool. Very polished as well - progression, great art and music, and lots of humor as well. Props all around!

In terms of things I'd like to see, I can't strategize much in this game beyond managing my karma so I can have a good counter. Otherwise with a 3 card hard I'm just waiting to top-deck a good card. Also, maybe give the cards symbols as well as colors, so you can place on each card what counters which in a more readable way? Anyway great job!

acuity 2015-12-19 07:47

Cleverly designed card game! Took me a while to understand what to do, but the game itself is fun once I figured it out.

justinooncx 2015-12-19 10:11

That was a fantastic game! My kind of shit right there! Funny, witty, tactical, all the good stuff! Didn't get to reach the last boss, though...

nsadie 2015-12-19 10:22

I played this for way to long :)
This was excellent, very effective use of simple graphics, very slick UI and simple but fun gameplay!

m-a-r-o-o-v-a-n 2015-12-19 13:07

Very fun and hilarious game. Loev th humor, sound and music. Gameplay is also very fun. Good laying on the theme!. Good job!

tapehead 2015-12-19 13:49

Really nice work here! you should not allow people to mute the music... tooo good in combination with all those dancing pixel people :D

robber 2015-12-19 15:13

glorious game!

smbe19 2015-12-19 16:19

Great Game! Played for way too long ;)

wilbefast 2015-12-19 16:33

Great stuff ^^ I really like strategy games and don't see enough in LD. Good and quite funny too. Doesn't really relate to the theme but, well, themes are just to give inspiration anyway - if you're already inspired I say go with it.

Constructive criticism: there is maybe not enough feedback for "not enough karma to use card" so I had trouble at the beginning figuring out how to play (didn't have enough karma to play any cards). Also as you had is central and your character is left it is not immediately apparent whose hand in whose.

zenmumbler 2015-12-19 16:52

Excellent entry with good mechanics and funny too!

christina-nordlander 2015-12-19 18:06

Lovely game! I'll probably need to come back and play this again just for fun, since I couldn't give it a massive amount of time right now. The graphics are professional, the mechanics are very easy to learn, and the advice spouted by the gurus is absolutely hilarious. Just plain fun.

My only nitpick is that your success or failure depended a lot on the random appearance of the cards, but then, that's kind of hard to avoid in a game like this.

One of the funniest and sleekest LD entries I've played. Hope you score high.

almax27 2015-12-19 19:50

This is fecking genius. Hands down my favorite game so far! Great work.

comatomatoes 2015-12-19 20:00

Really enjoyed the card flavor text! Good work!

dalsgames 2015-12-19 21:04

Nice entry! Had to click a lot however, would have bee nice if the opponents screens changed by them self after some time. Nice art and i liked the tune :)

piper82 2015-12-19 21:34

very good job. liked the art, especially the followers design. from my perspective even tho i got confused in first few clicks, you made enough visual cues to get into mechanics even without tutorial. i think you did very good job in 72h.

kualitygames 2015-12-19 23:32

Love the humor in the game.

elliotfiske 2015-12-20 00:24

Incredible game! Played it all the way through. I love the simple card-mechanics, and the quotes are an awesome touch (Jaden Smith is my favorite).

Great job!

diel-mormac 2015-12-20 14:06

Excellent game, I can preview this game in the top 10 of the competition!

It took me a good time playing and made me laugh so much!

I've beaten Galdalfo and Arnold Schwarzenator...

Congratulations!

davidb 2015-12-20 17:35

guru are hypnotics. funny text and battle.

pkenney 2015-12-20 17:36

Impressive scope for a jam! An interesting strategy game with great graphics, nice humor, and pretty balanced systems. Great user interface with the cards, as well.

If I had to pick one tiny nitpick, I think the short music clip that was cycling was eventually a bit too much given how long I could sit and play for.

mithoskuu 2015-12-20 20:13

I was really enjoying the game but when I got to Arnold it seemed to break, it was impossible for either of us to gain or lose followers, rendering the game both unwinnable and unloseable

shurty 2015-12-21 11:09

Had so much fun with this one, only got a bug on the final level (cards weren't doing anything anymore). Else, it's a really awesome game, very well done !

skywilly 2015-12-21 12:29

Ahaha, it's a fantastic idea. Love it !

drauthius 2015-12-21 21:07

Man. My battle with Schwarzenegger got bugged. None of us gained followers. Very interesting concept though.

mrshoestore 2015-12-22 04:53

Great art. Very polished. I didn't think the music matched the theme entirely, but that made it kinda funny. The gameplay wasn't my cup of tea, but I still enjoyed all the hard work put into it. I have never played a game like this in a game jam before.

weloxux 2015-12-22 13:02

Nice quotes, love the TCG-like gameplay, and the graphics are cute. The "fight" with Bob was perhaps a bit too long though.

davekalina 2015-12-24 16:46

A fun (and silly) concept with an entertaining presentation, the card game mechanics are a bit messy, but still an impressive jam game!

leafthief 2015-12-25 07:51

Once you get the hang of it it becomes quite fun. I like that strategies emerge over time and I found myself really considering what to do next, always with the feeling of having multiple options.
Made it past Gondolf and Schwarznator :)

terryg 2015-12-25 23:15

Wow. Great job building this. Very impressive for such a short time. Took my son and I a little bit of time to figure it out, but that was actually part of the fun for us. Congrats on a fun game.

arzi 2015-12-26 15:31

How philosophical! :D Quite a unique card game!

crucknuk 2015-12-26 15:41

Nice entry! It has an excellent mood and it is very stylish! Good job ;)

eruiz00 2015-12-26 19:53

Can't understand anything, but what effects! what graphic! and what music!

kanedaxiii 2015-12-26 20:59

Hahaha hilarious game! I really enjoied playing it, but where is the theme?

claire1605 2015-12-27 12:43

Awesome game, lots of fun and very funny!

nassi 2015-12-27 15:26

Losing all progress after being defeated by the third opponent made me ragequit. The game is already a bit repetitive as is, and making it more repetitive by forcing the player to redo earlier stages was annoying, especially so in a Ludum Dare game.

Nice aesthetic and lots of content though.

zener 2015-12-28 10:07

The BEST!!!

clabbage 2015-12-29 05:42

Very clever and insightful.

agilejoshua 2015-12-29 14:57

Amazing that you got this done within the 72 hours - well done. Nice idea.

landosystems 2015-12-29 16:57

great game. For some reason i was stuck on Gondolf. No followers were moving at all, but I loved the premise of this game. Great Jam Entry!

tortoise 2015-12-31 03:51

Excellent work. Easy to pick up. I played it for longer than I expected.

ddunc 2015-12-31 20:06

Great game, definitely keep working on it--could have a lot of play-value with multiplayer support!

powerspark 2015-12-31 20:37

Very well polished. I love the dialogue!

hexagore 2016-01-01 15:32

Glad I decided to play a few more games. I thought this was pretty creative and fun. I can't quite believe its right that it should be possible to beat that final boss though :P

guard13007 2016-01-01 19:36

Amazing! Would love to see this fleshed out into a full game!

xanjos 2016-01-02 00:02

This was absolutely amazing to play from start to finish. AI was completely relentless but beatable (although it's a bit annoying when you and have to start over again) and the cards seems pretty well balanced (although there should really be an option to discard a card so you don't end up having a dead hand). Also the quotes from the gurus were hilariously accurate.

dvdfu 2016-01-02 17:46

Hilarious entry, and super well-polished too! Great job.

_benhumphries 2016-01-03 18:54

It's really fun and I like the idea. I appreciate the hard work on the little details like the sound effects and animated backgrounds. The only thing I can really complain about it is that it takes forever to pick up. The instructions are VERY long and hard to get through. I think that maybe the first fight should have been either a lot easier or it should have guided you through everything you can do (or both). Great job!

archonthewizard 2016-01-03 21:05

Really cool game. Impressive design and balance. The quotes were often funny. Art and graphics were also great. Unfortunately I got stuck on the gandalf level. Followers didn't change regardless of cards being played.

swipefaststudios 2016-01-03 23:59

Cool graphics!

firetwin 2016-01-04 00:48

Pretty funny, and maybe reminds us not to take sprituality too seriously, even though I myself am into that sort of thing. Can tell you had a lot of fun making this and hope to see more in the future :)

haokarlos 2016-01-04 10:39

Good game, The graphics are awesome and really original idea. Great job

jupiter_hadley 2016-03-30 13:56

Really lovely graphics, neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/S5oK4fsls3Q