Deck Bomber by Britt Henderson

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made by Britt Henderson for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Deck Bomber is a card game played with up to 4 people/bots!

The goal is to be the last one standing while the bomb explodes everyone else! Take turns playing a card - each card has a value that gets added to the bomb's value when played. When the bomb's value goes beyond 10 or below 0, the bomb explodes on whoever last played the card!! They are then eliminated and the remaining players continue until there is only 1 left.

Every player gets the same deck of 8 cards: [-5, -3, -1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 5] This deck is randomly shuffled at the start of the game - at the start of the first turn, player draws 3 cards into their hand. Every turn they choose one of the three cards in their hand to play, picking up a new card at the start of each turn.

Btw... since this is a jam game, our netcode was done in a weekend. If you try to break it, you'll probably succeed. Also, to play online with friends, download the windows or mac build. WEB ONLINE DOESN'T WORK :'(

Join our discord to play games with other Ludem Dare 49'ers! https://discord.gg/ery5rXxaZR

Ratings

Overall 90th 4.125⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 120th 4.025⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 153th 3.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 162th 4.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 266th 4.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 274th 3.775⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 185th 3.875⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 590th 3.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

IndieMoose
04. Oct 2021 · 10:57 UTC
very cool unique card game
LDJam user 174638
04. Oct 2021 · 11:00 UTC
Fun card game I'll try to try the online version with friends!
Love the music by the way 😀
DevParty
04. Oct 2021 · 11:33 UTC
Amazing game! This is soooooo fun! You NEED to make this into a full release game, I would play this so much!
GoldenEvolution
04. Oct 2021 · 11:41 UTC
Super great entry! I absolutely love the silly music. The gameplay is easy to understand and thankfully the bots are more stupid than me haha
MalusKhan
04. Oct 2021 · 11:52 UTC
What a work ! All the points are very good for me ! I hope a patch with some new cards to increase the possibilities of the player :) Very promising
Ryan Winstead
05. Oct 2021 · 05:13 UTC
Great work! The art for the bomb is so cute -- also really impressed you wrote netcode for the jam :O nice!
Not_AS_Artistic
05. Oct 2021 · 06:41 UTC
Came here because I liked your LD48 entry - and was not disappointed.
The gameplay is simple but has surprising depth of strategy.
The graphics and humorous sounds are all a plus in making this a simple and fun experience.
My only gripe is that the AI is a bit too easy to beat, but hey, strategy games and AI are a hard pair to do.
Loved the game! Hope you make a full release, or at least a board game out of this!
nshbae
05. Oct 2021 · 06:50 UTC
What a cute bomb! I love your concept of game!
It would be fun if there are joker card like x2!
Beth
05. Oct 2021 · 15:06 UTC
Very cute animations and music. Feels like it should be on Board Game Arena. Great work!
Jackaljk
09. Oct 2021 · 20:41 UTC
This card game is really good, I'll be playing it with my friends! Great to find someone else who sang their music, cheers :D it's catchy too, nice job! The art is great and cute.

If you plan to expand this you might want to introduce special cards like UNO reverse and skip turn. Maybe also rare cards that set the bomb number to their value rather than summing to it? Maybe rare cards that don't trigger the explosion despite going beyond +/-10? Just some suggestions, it's up to you.

Nice work!
Joel Davis
14. Oct 2021 · 05:46 UTC
Really cool, I love "push your luck" style games and this is a great theme for it. I didn't try the networking but really impressive that you were able to do multiplayer during a jam.
PenguinMunch
14. Oct 2021 · 07:42 UTC
This is a great idea for a card game! Also, the music is great!
jk5000
16. Oct 2021 · 07:01 UTC
A super simple and pretty fun little card game.
crazyrems
16. Oct 2021 · 20:46 UTC
Nice little game that works pretty well :thumbsup: It feels simple but polished, Good job!

\*Sing in bombs*
N.O. Games
16. Oct 2021 · 21:03 UTC
Just a really cute little card game. Absolutely loved this. So much charm put in. Great job