Faro by Alkrimil
Welcome to Faro!
Faro is a game where you will be fighting against Thoth and his minions while playing a game of blackjack.
You, as the player, have 3 hands to play blackjack with. You must kill Thoth's minions to draw additional cards to your hands. If your hand's value goes over 21 then that hand has BUST and will be disabled. This will automatically move your current hand to the next hand of cards.
You can press E to HOLD a hand which will prevent cards from being added to that hand and will switch to the next hand of cards. Once all 3 hands have either been BUST or HELD then the hands that you HELD will be compared to Thoth's. All hands that are higher in value than Thoth's cause additional benefits for the player.
Thoth is invulnerable until the hands have been revealed.
If you have 0 winning hands then Thoth will rain down beams of light at random locations which you would need to avoid.
If you have 1 winning hand then Thoth will shoot a laser from his crown in a horizontal motion, you also deal 5 times damage to it.
If you have 2 winning hands then Thoth will do a series of slam attacks in front of it, you also deal 10 times damage to it.
If you have 3 winning hands then Thoth will be stunned for a short duration allowing you free reign to attack it, you also deal 20 times damage to it.
EDIT: Re-updated so that the UI scales with screen!
Brought to you by Ouroboros Games Studio.
Faro is a game where you will be fighting against Thoth and his minions while playing a game of blackjack.
You, as the player, have 3 hands to play blackjack with. You must kill Thoth's minions to draw additional cards to your hands. If your hand's value goes over 21 then that hand has BUST and will be disabled. This will automatically move your current hand to the next hand of cards.
You can press E to HOLD a hand which will prevent cards from being added to that hand and will switch to the next hand of cards. Once all 3 hands have either been BUST or HELD then the hands that you HELD will be compared to Thoth's. All hands that are higher in value than Thoth's cause additional benefits for the player.
Thoth is invulnerable until the hands have been revealed.
If you have 0 winning hands then Thoth will rain down beams of light at random locations which you would need to avoid.
If you have 1 winning hand then Thoth will shoot a laser from his crown in a horizontal motion, you also deal 5 times damage to it.
If you have 2 winning hands then Thoth will do a series of slam attacks in front of it, you also deal 10 times damage to it.
If you have 3 winning hands then Thoth will be stunned for a short duration allowing you free reign to attack it, you also deal 20 times damage to it.
EDIT: Re-updated so that the UI scales with screen!
Brought to you by Ouroboros Games Studio.
| Windows | https://ouroborosgames.itch.io/faro |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=110026 |
Awesome job!
But otherwise, really a great job :)
One thing I noticed though, which I'm not sure is intentional (maybe I did something wrong) - sometimes the cards kept coming way too fast and I just couldn't press E in time to hold. Also it felt unresponsive at times, I had to press E multiple times in order to have some effect.
All in all though, excellent entry!
I really enjoyed playing this game!
But the game was great!
but the ending was pretty bad.
Two times it crashed on the info screen, and other three in game, always on the first time I hit one of the minions. I tried different quality settings, but nothing changed.
And it doesn't work on windowed mode, because of the not-scaling of the canvas.
But the concept looks really interesting. I want to play it!
Completed the game once, would be amazing if there were more bosses.
I really loved the voxel art of your pharaon. Concept is pretty nice :) but I can't see if there is really a link with the theme.
Apart this, the game is great
I also love graphics and music :) Maybe the laser should be less easy to avoid, because I always managed to get through it pretty easily. Good job ! :)
The UI, graphics, music and sounds are all good, and work together well. I really enjoyed playing!