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Merge 'em Wars by Call_me_Nutty

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made by Call_me_Nutty for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

Banner.png A game about trading and merging your cards to cleverly to beat your rival and claim card player dominance! The game is fun, innovative and relatively simple and easy. I recommend you play through a second or third time to see how your fortunes may differ! Finish.png

​How to Play

​​Explained in-game :)

Controls

  • ​Space - Advance to next day
  • M - Mute/ Unmute
  • Everything else is with the mouse

Known Issues

​- Initial intro screen says that the game takes place over "5 days" when it actually takes place over 7. - Cards don't properly go over each other. - Rival doesn't get a blank if he won the previous day. - Rival makes certain unintentional decision (not going to spoil it).

Youtube https://github.com/TheNuttyGamer/Merge-em-Up
Youtube https://call-me-nutty.itch.io/merge-em-wars
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/merge-em-wars

Ratings

Overall 600th 3.42⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 439th 3.417⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 262th 3.6⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 484th 3.4⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 831th 3⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 576th 2.87⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 327th 3.188⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 819th 3⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 21🗨️

Feedback

jaydubbyasee
07. Oct 2019 · 22:49 UTC
Cool concept. Love the funny card descriptions.
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
07. Oct 2019 · 22:53 UTC
Thank you! :)
NachtWitch
08. Oct 2019 · 21:36 UTC
Really cool game my guy, really detailed mechanics for a game made for ludum dare, 5 stars from me my guy
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
08. Oct 2019 · 21:39 UTC
@nachtwitch Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! :D
GoldenEvolution
08. Oct 2019 · 21:40 UTC
Quite an enjoyable game. It took me a while before I fully figured out what to do. Starting off the game with a big wall of text is usually not the best way of explaining it. Also the audio got me really confused, as it sounded like someone was clicking in the background. I had a blast playing it though. Great job!
Kerdelos
08. Oct 2019 · 21:55 UTC
Nice game, the music fits well ! It took me a while to understand the UI(especially the trading part) and the game, but then i had a good time ! Good job !
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
08. Oct 2019 · 21:58 UTC
Thank you so much for the feedback both! :)
Black Flag
09. Oct 2019 · 16:46 UTC
This is a really fun game, you have also fit quite a lot of content into a game made in such a short amount of time! I thought that the merging system also worked really well, and the audio was really good, I was a little confused about the trading system but other than that overall this is a really good jam entry!
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
09. Oct 2019 · 17:28 UTC
@black-flag Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! :)
I was really fearing the UI design of the Traders being confusing to the player (even I found it confusing at first but shhh), but that's definitely something I'll work on in future iterations.
AlphaDen
09. Oct 2019 · 17:47 UTC
The retro look is great. Great audio BTW. I can recollected 90's games when i play this game(With audio obivously) :)
AliceCrd
12. Oct 2019 · 16:24 UTC
Like my game experience, good job !
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
12. Oct 2019 · 19:20 UTC
Thanks for the feedback everyone :)
Ausstein
12. Oct 2019 · 19:51 UTC
I tried myself on a card game last time, made it kinda too complicated. You kept it simple for such a short time. Good Job on that. The graphics are better than mine last year but still nothing award winning :D The audio was great. I got a clean 3:0 victory :sunglasses:

I kept trading with the old lady while the bratty kid always traded with the familliar plumber xD
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
12. Oct 2019 · 19:56 UTC
@ausstein Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback! :D
LoneWolfDev
12. Oct 2019 · 20:06 UTC
The concept its really good and has good potential! I love the mechanic of merging the cards to get new ones!! The only thing, as they said, is that the trading system is quite confusing, as I couldn't really understand with which criteria are you exchanging cards. But good job!
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
12. Oct 2019 · 20:20 UTC
@lonewolfdev Thank you so very much! :)
Chocolat-Endive
12. Oct 2019 · 20:47 UTC
Nice game! I think the UI need more visual and sound feebacks. It took my some tries to understand how trading and merging works (for example, it's not really clear if it's your turn or your opponent turn to trade).

The merging and combat system works very well.
tohubohu
13. Oct 2019 · 19:22 UTC
This was a fun game to play. I won 5:2. Getting the DX card felt like an accomplishment, but it also seemed like merging cards had the tradeoff of losing a bit of health and attack power for speed. Must have been a lot of fun to make! Congrats on the submission.
LeReveur
13. Oct 2019 · 19:23 UTC
Simple and effective! I played twice, winning 2:0 and 2:1. It was interseting to anticipate opponent moves and choose cards with strategy for the battle. Good job!
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
13. Oct 2019 · 19:49 UTC
@chocolat-endive Thanks for the feedback :), I was working on trying to improve the presentation of the game but all my ideas were just a bit out of scope with the time I had left. Big improvements to be made in coming versions!

@tohubohu I thought someone would point this out eventually, balancing the game was certainly interesting, I had to try and even out making merging actually worth it and not making them so powerful that your opponent lags behind for the next two or three days. I have a solution for a future version though.

@lereveur Glad you enjoyed it! :)
kenster
16. Oct 2019 · 02:41 UTC
Fun game, but I didn't understand trading at all. I started with blanks and got better cards from the trades. But overall fun and easy to play
Mr ChocolateSalmon
18. Oct 2019 · 11:36 UTC
Pretty good game. Trading was a little weird at first, I thought I'd be able to combine things of different types to create new cards, but could really only merge cards of the same types. Game play loop was smooth, graphics were nice, and overall I enjoyed playing :smile:
PhilStrahl
21. Oct 2019 · 20:59 UTC
Very interesting concept where the deck building is more important than the actual game. Took me a little to figure out how it was played, the tutorial helped a lot. Maybe I give it another try and see if I can win properly (and take the time to read all the funny descriptions on the cards) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u3BIVgcKdQ
🎤 Call_me_Nutty
21. Oct 2019 · 23:04 UTC
@philstrahl Thank you so very much for all the feedback, working on the post-jam version as we speak and definitely incorporating your valuable criticisms. 'preciate it!