{"author_link":"\/users\/179298","author_name":"LDJam user 179298","author_uid":1179298,"comments":[{"id":1037366,"author_name":"OnlinE_Play","author_uid":"online-play","epoch":1713228889,"text":"A wonderful card game with fairly simple rules. I regret that there aren't more cards.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1037673,"author_name":"LocksmithArmy","author_uid":"locksmitharmy","epoch":1713230980,"text":"Would love to see more, this was fun ;)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1041287,"author_name":"Irex","author_uid":"irex","epoch":1713260767,"text":"Cool card game. A little bit hard to understand at the beginning but then it's nice! And I like the art a lot","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045153,"author_name":"Hendrik Schn\u00fctgen","author_uid":"hendrik-schnutgen","epoch":1713283702,"text":"Fun card game, needed a second to understand how it works, but enjoyed it. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045265,"author_name":"NaPlz98","author_uid":"naplz98","epoch":1713284269,"text":"Really interesting and fun card game! The art is really creepy I love it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045504,"author_name":"Archaeognathus","author_uid":"archaeognathus","epoch":1713285526,"text":"Nicely creepy art style :) It took me a bit to understand how the cards really worked, but I probably was just overthinking it. Made it until stage 14 during first try, before I stopped. By that time the reportet FPS went down, from an average of 1300 to 400 ;)\nMaybe it would be a nice feature when the cards your opponent plays would also interact with yours. Like when the hand of God might Backfire, because the opponent also played one, destroying your set of two. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045907,"author_name":"LDJam user 179298","author_uid":"179298","epoch":1713287389,"text":"@archaeognathus I'm glad you enjoyed the game. As for the opponent's cards interacting with yours, we had many ideas for the cards and it was one of them but the time didn't allow us to add all of our ideas. One of the things we had to scrap would be the items which you could buy just like the cards which would alter the cards' effects. Fps go down because the game is really unoptimized, for example when a card disappears it doesn't actually disappear but just turns invisible. I didn't put much effort into fixing the issue since it's not really that important especially for a jam game. Thank you for playing our game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1050718,"author_name":"Kseniya","author_uid":"kseniya","epoch":1713311567,"text":"Beautiful art and very nice feel. Controls really nicely too","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053312,"author_name":"MartenJ","author_uid":"martenj","epoch":1713347980,"text":"Could not run the game on my computer (Win11 x64). After clicking on the the Summoner.exe a window open with a white screen and then closed after a couple of seconds. No Error message.\n ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053386,"author_name":"LDJam user 179298","author_uid":"179298","epoch":1713348840,"text":"@martenj I'm very sorry for that and if you're still interested in playing our game I'll do my best to help you. If you download [this](https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1KF-XArTttiwOL6VLOvCy0wAOMjc_C-tT\/view?usp=sharing) and replace it in the game files, the game will start saving logs in Logs folder. If you could send me the log I might be able to help you.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053398,"author_name":"LDJam user 304226","author_uid":"304226","epoch":1713348987,"text":"Wow, just really cool, cool art, cool, simple, but engaging gameplay, wish there was some more cards, but still this is awesome","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053467,"author_name":"OdinVII","author_uid":"odinvii","epoch":1713349887,"text":"Interesting concept, it looks like it has some potential for future development","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053470,"author_name":"kristinamay","author_uid":"kristinamay","epoch":1713349923,"text":"Other reviewers like \"a bit hard to understand at first\" and I'm over here staring trying to click on things for a solid 2 min before I realized I'm supposed to use a keyboard :crying_cat_face: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053600,"author_name":"LDJam user 179298","author_uid":"179298","epoch":1713351401,"text":"@kristinamay Yeah, a simple tutorial would've probably been a good idea. We're sorry","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053608,"author_name":"kristinamay","author_uid":"kristinamay","epoch":1713351484,"text":"@vladimperator lol it's okay! It's a game jam, after all! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054405,"author_name":"Landerack","author_uid":"landerack","epoch":1713359496,"text":"ah I crashed on a tie I think, but the animations of the card expaning and flipping really created a nice atmosphere, well done :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054407,"author_name":"Nycoisdreaming","author_uid":"nycoisdreaming","epoch":1713359512,"text":"Cool art, especially love the background. I'm a little confused on how the combat works though, and responsiveness of buttons was slow. Otherwise a cool concept though","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054441,"author_name":"HsG_Gringo","author_uid":"hsg-gringo","epoch":1713360027,"text":"very nice arts and interesting concept! game has potential. but i have a question, why some files in game directory have dated 20,22,23 years? old concept?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054475,"author_name":"LDJam user 179298","author_uid":"179298","epoch":1713360432,"text":"@hsg-gringo These are third party libraries' files","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066617,"author_name":"PaDo","author_uid":"pado","epoch":1713612561,"text":"Wow. A card game with an interesting style.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076540,"author_name":"Custodi","author_uid":"custodi","epoch":1714485970,"text":"Simple art with casual game core mechanic. But lack of unique cards.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1077603,"author_name":"josang1567","author_uid":"josang1567","epoch":1714640099,"text":"good game, the art style is amazing, i really like simple card games","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[],"metadata":{"g_key":"67165","g_author":"1179298","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"286853","g_title":"Tournament of Summoners","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"392313","g_hide":"Y","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"392313","n_urlkey":"286853","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/tournament-of-summoners","n_slug":"tournament-of-summoners","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"179298","n_created":"0","n_modified":"0","n_version":"1231618","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"id":392313,"parent":383062,"_superparent":9,"author":179298,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2024-04-16T00:24:05Z","created":"2024-04-15T22:20:50Z","modified":"2024-04-30T03:57:00Z","_trust":1,"version":1231618,"slug":"tournament-of-summoners","name":"Tournament of Summoners","body":"![Screen1.png](\/\/\/raw\/26c\/b2\/z\/628bd.png)\n\n![Screen2.png](\/\/\/raw\/26c\/b2\/z\/628c0.png)\n\n---\n\n# About\n_Tournament of Summoners_ is a turn-based card game that progressively gets harder with each stage where you fight other summoners. At the beginning of each stage you're able to purchase new cards for your deck which you then play to fight your opponent.\n\n---\n\n# Lore\nAs your consciousness fades away your mind is being put to a test of endurance to fear. You are one of many contestants of the _Tournament of Summoners_. As a summoner you're able to control the power of fears and curse your enemy with said fears thus damaging his psyche and securing your place at the tournament. But be careful since you're not immune to the curses yourself. Will you be able to withstand many different fears that might damage your mental possibly for ever?\n\n---\n\n# Development\n- @VladImperator - engine \/ game coding\n- @tuh - graphical assets \/ sound effects and music\n\nWe both are very passionate about the game and poured our hearts into it. Even though many features had to be cut out from the game since we were running out of time, we still are very proud of the final outcome. 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At the beginning of each stage you're able to purchase new cards for your deck which you then play to fight your opponent.\n\n---\n\n# Lore\nAs your consciousness fades away your mind is being put to a test of endurance to fear. You are one of many contestants of the _Tournament of Summoners_. As a summoner you're able to control the power of fears and curse your enemy with said fears thus damaging his psyche and securing your place at the tournament. But be careful since you're not immune to the curses yourself. Will you be able to withstand many different fears that might damage your mental possibly for ever?\n\n---\n\n# Development\n- @VladImperator - engine \/ game coding\n- @tuh - graphical assets \/ sound effects and music\n\nWe both are very passionate about the game and poured our hearts into it. Even though many features had to be cut out from the game since we were running out of time, we still are very proud of the final outcome. This is our first ludum dare game and we hope to make more. The game was developed on my(@VladImperator) own game engine written in C#.\n\n---\n\n# Guide\n## Card\n![ScreenT1.png](\/\/\/raw\/26c\/b2\/z\/629d3.png)\n- If the card is not inverted the card's power is how much damage it's gonna deal\n- If the card is inverted the card's power is how much it's gonna heal you\n- Card's usage cost is how much energy it will cost you to play the card\n- Pay attention to the card's kind so you can chain it with other cards\n\n## Energy\n![ScreenT2.png](\/\/\/raw\/26c\/b2\/z\/62a4d.png)\n- Energy acts as both health and _well_ energy to play your cards\n\n## Stage\n![ScreenT3.png](\/\/\/raw\/26c\/b2\/z\/62a4e.png)\n- You advance to next stage after you beat your opponent\n- There are 3 different phases:\n- > Shop (orange background) - where you buy new cards\n- > Play (purple background) - where you select cards for the fight phase\n- > Fight (green background) - where all the cards play out\n\n## Fight\n- After all the cards play out and you and your opponent are still standing the game goes into play phase again and you get 1 random card that you played back\n- When you defeat your opponent you get all the cards played this duel back\n- When you lose the battle you get reset to stage 1\n\n## Controls\n- Left and right arrow keys - select card\n- Up arrow key              - buy card \/ pick card during play phase\n- Down arrow key            - invert card during play phase\n- Spacebar                  - exit the shop \/ confirm a hand during play phase\n\n---\n\n# System requirements\n- Vulkan 1.3 capable graphics card\n- Windows x64\n\n## Disclaimer\nOn some systems graphical inconsistencies might appear (slightly brighter image and wonky background).\n\nGame's executable file is `Summoner.exe`\n\n---\n\n# Update\nI had to update the game since there were two minor bugs:\n- Inverting and picking a card at the same time during play phase would crash the game\n- Small oversight in the code caused one of the cards to not appear in the shop\n\n---","title":"Tournament of Summoners","wayback_recovered":true,"wayback_source":{"timestamp":"20240430080634","url":"https:\/\/api.ldjam.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/385133+384703+385653+383138+386316+385967+389564+393337+386376+384551+386705+385010+392774+392064+391076+389366+389173+392313+387476+392497+391466+388475+392596+383973"}}