ooboob 2024-04-15 17:03
I love this! It took me a while to understand what was happening, but once I did I really got into it.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → I💰I💎I⚔️I
By boltkey
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 222 | 3.31 | 23 | |
| Fun | 197 | 3.31 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 180 | 3.31 | 23 | |
| Theme | 299 | 2.88 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 322 | 2.59 | 23 | |
| Humor | 294 | 1.87 | 18 | |
| Mood | 318 | 2.52 | 20 |
I love this! It took me a while to understand what was happening, but once I did I really got into it.
Really fun! At first it was very difficult to get anywhere but eventually I got a really strong economy going. I managed to beat the game with a really small deck with tactician & spy, which pretty much breaks the game because you can just keep grabbing them over and over. Kind of cheating.
Lots of depth to this game! It was a little painful trying to figure it out at first, I think an in-game tutorial could have greatly improved the experience. But once I got a handle on it I was enjoying myself.
It takes a bit to get used to, but honestly it's very interesting. Feels fairly polished as well so great job :clap: One minor thing I would have liked, is a button to restart instead of refreshing the page, when I feel fairly deffeated and just want to try again.
This was great! It felt like a board game. Took mem a little time to work it out but loved it once I did. Great concept to build on.
I really enjoyed the mechanics of the game, but either I was very bad at it or the balance was a bit off, I was very quickly out-scaled by the monsters in all cases. I feel like I didn't have the opportunity to get enough swords in my deck quick enough to start scaling.
Very difficult to wrap my mind around it, but I can get what you're going for! There's some nice resource management and puzzling going on, and I like the overall idea. I think I ran into a few visual glitches (like extra cards appearing when restarting and overlapping monster cards) but that might just be me misunderstanding a mechanic.
Not sure why my monsters aren't dying, and the gold they are taking per turn keeps raking up. Would like to see the concept but with a bit more qol
Managed to defeat the dark lord using the infinite card draw combo! It took me way too long to find it though.
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Anyway, this was amazing!! I played it for over an hour I think - it was so much fun! I loved all the trade-offs between the different resources, figuring out when to summon cards, when to use them, when to keep them for next turn... It had so much depth! The balance was a little off - the Advanced Prospector was so good I kept refreshing until it showed up in the initial shop, and the aforementioned infinite draw is obviously pretty broken - but that's to be expected in a compo game. My only nitpick is that the Dark Lord growing stronger every turn felt a bit overtuned - in the one attempt where I actually reached it in a pretty good state without the infinite combo, I was suddenly wrecked when it kept growing massively every turn. It was also very easy to forget that you could attack with coins. Other than that though, I loved this! Awesome entry!
That was really fun! One bug I found is, after restarting the game after Game Over, I opened the rules menu and accidentally clicked outside of it, which moved one of the cards to the middle - when I closed the rules, I got another game over and a word instead of the money number, I believe "NaN" or something similar - clicked through before I screenshotted it, though :(