​​I played some levels and this was a fun experience! Adorable design. (:​

the mechanics flow along super nicely! Well done!

LOVED THE GRAPHICS!!!

cool game, the only improvement i can see is to put the powerups on hotkeys, so the player dont need to a menu everytime to use it

@jaime-paz-lopes That doesn’t work with 10 types of cards though. Also, you can have up to 5 cards in your hand. No player should be expected to reflexively press the right hotkey out of 5 hotkeys on top of the movement ones.

@CMLSC could be 1 to 0, or hotkey for just the one you have at hand. But maybe it is just me, i got a little confused by the menu, i am used to Z to accept and X to open menu and cancel (it is the rpg maker default)

@jaime-paz-lopes but if you bind each button to a card, the user will have to move their hand a long way just to reach the right card's button. Quickly pressing a button from 1 to 0 to activate invincibility, double/triple jump, platforms, or speed(which are the defensive cards) when there's a bullet or meteorite next to you is not easily done. If you're talking about playing out of your hand, it'd still be 1 to 5 and what is bound to what will constantly be changing, so you actually have to stop and think about which one to press. It can't be done reflexively.

Btw, the reasoning behind the Z for the card menu and X for select is that on the gameboy and DS the button to the right(A) is always used to select/confirm things. That's just what I'm used to.

Freaking amazing! Excelent work, wanna check ours too??

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time

Very cool game! I really like the combination here and how it was implemented. The art is very stylistic too, and the game feels surprisingly polished.

Just a couple remarks, but I did find z for cancel and x for select a bit confusing, as I expected the order to be vice versa. Obviously not sure about other people. Maybe I'm just used to the Pico-8 controls after playing several of them for this jam.

I also for some reason found the ground spikes a bit hard to see, especially the animation that happens right before the spikes show up. It took me a couple of times getting hit until I finally got used to them.

Anyway, those are very much nitpicks. Overall a fantastic game! Great stuff!

Really love the genre combination and the graphics. Really great job!!! I think you nailed the theme on the head and surprisingly made it still a blast to play!!

At first I thought the cards could be be played immediately, but the more I played the more I got into the micromanagment side of things. Are there extra VP/score cards? I never got offered one. Either way, this's a super cool way of including deckbuilding. You've earned yourself a follower :wink:.

Got to Day 2 1/3.

@SecretPocketCat you can get offered a point card as a new card for your deck, but it’s pretty rare.

I really like the TCG mechanics.. could see this expanding a lot! Gameplay flows well.

Some other things I wasn't sure about was the card select/discard at the end of the level, anyways nice work! :)

@Raiyumi that’s when you swap out a card in your deck. (aka deck building)

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The survival part is simple but enough addictive, and the card part give a pretty good feeling at the game, nice work !

Good job! It's a whole bunch of fun and I'm a big fan of blending card games with action games! Thats what my team did too!

This game got intense fast, and I like it!

Amazing art style! I absolutely think this is outstanding! Please check out me and my team's game? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/platscii

@Connell you didn't actually play it, did you...

I did I just suck at feedback

It's a little hard to tell your records when the game doesn't even give an indication of my progress once I die. All I can tell is that I got past about five waves. It was when everything started getting pretty wild with the bullets, tumbleweeds and meteorites that I ended up losing all my health.

Overall though, I really enjoyed this game. It gives me Potatoman Seeks the Troof vibes with the tumbleweeds and the constant dodging of the elements. I loved the art style and the floatiness of the jump worked in the game's favour. The idea of collecting and playing cards to affect your abilities was done in such a way that made it fun but also wasn't too easy or unreasonably difficult. At first, I thought maybe the abilities lasted too short but the game overall makes it work by giving a lot of cards. That being said, it's kind of unfair when you're just starting out a wave and the cards are all a double jump's reach away and by the time you do get a card within your reach, those cards go away and URGH! Well, it was a real workout to say the least. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sound effects were good, the chaotic and dissonant music truly added to the insanity of having to constantly dodge hazards. It does grate a tad on the ears after a while, but when playing the game for as long as I did, the music mostly helped to elevate the experience rather than distract from it. And the graphics are really well done; love the details in the background and the retro aesthetic.

@CMLSC
Y'know, I don't have anything to give for feedback. Just a sujestion that impacted my rating on the theme negatively.

I can imagine this game been better by having the cards accessible while you platform across the screen, melding the two genres together, and I find myself quite disapointed that I don't have the ability to customize my entire deck at one go, shifting a single card at random at the end of every stage instead.

Other than that, this was quite the game. Congratulations at finishing your Compo game. You could say that it did... "Hit the Mark".

@fil089 the idea behind the "one card at a time" idea is that it adds replayability since each time you play, you'll construct a different deck. I personally like roguelikes, which may have influenced that decision. I think that people who like roguelikes will like the "one card at a time" mechanic, while fans of card games may have your preferences.

@random-storykeeper I'm going to mark that as High Noon - Day 1(you may call it the 3rd wave) because that's where the tumbleweeds appear. :P

nice job, starts off a bit too easy but soon gets hard. Good job combining the two genres but I _always_ needed more double jump lol. Well done!

Nice game. Little confusing choosing card mechanic and spikes (I hate them!). I played out nearly 30 minutes and it was fun and challenging. GG Man!

It reminds me of some game I've been playing on PSP a bunch of years ago (I mean the mix survival + cards).
Can't remember though; still, it's a concept that works! Good work

Very nice! Very polished, I love the artwork.

I feel like the speed cards were kind of useless though, I always replaced them when given the chance.

I made it to high noon on day 2.

Really nice concept along with sounds that fit to whole mood. Love your ART. Good Job!

Really cool and addictive game! I will definitely play it more in the coming days.

Really cool! I like the artstyle and the color set you're giving. And the game is pretty fun!

Nice game, good artstyle, but need more working on character movements and hazards design. There's too unpredictable.

Nice idea, it's a bit boring at the beginning, but it's hard to balance ld games! The spikes felt unconsistant, so it was hard to predict when to jump. Either way, great job coming up with the idea. Totally playable and well executed!