Monster Madness by Exploding Bits

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made by Exploding Bits for LD 40 (JAM)

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Monster Madness is a card game where the objective is to reduce your opponents life to 0. You will have several monster cards to use. You may play them on either your field or your enemies field. When there are multiple creatures summoned on the same side of the field they stack and have their power and defense reduced. A monsters stats are calculated by base/# of stacked monsters.

There are several things you should know: * You can summon as many cards as you have in your hand. The hand size is 5. You get 2 cards per turn. * Monsters cannot attack on their first turn. You can attack life directly, click on the heart. * When a monster attacks another monster both are damaged. * Summoning the same type of monster will refresh the monsters attack if already used. * Killing a monster reduces its stack by 1 and returns health/defense to the monster. * You may attack your own monsters to reduce the stack.

Special thanks to Barry and Toni for the wonderful music and art respectively.

For more art and other great stuff visit: Brooks and Belle

For more music and musical programming visit: Barry Lockwood

Ratings

Overall 600th 3.425⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 751th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 432th 3.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 817th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 300th 3.952⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 423th 3.25⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 820th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

shrekshao
04. Dec 2017 · 06:34 UTC
I'm getting jealous of great artworks of Jam games... Is it for android (since it's a jar). Again, the graphics is really cool. Board game has some learning curves. To make the battle scheme works more interesting, I thought about https://mekagem.itch.io/regxkcd . Might be helpful for expanding the battle logic.
Escape
05. Dec 2017 · 08:48 UTC
Wow this was really cool! There's some nice strategy and depth to the game, but also still easily approachable and fun! Graphics and music are nice. Great job, well done! :)
Wakka2
05. Dec 2017 · 12:11 UTC
Very nice card art! Are these handdrawn?
rincewind-cz
05. Dec 2017 · 17:06 UTC
Nice artwork and listenable music. From perspective of game design, it lacks some deeper mechanics -- it's just too simple and too random (as it really depends on which card player gets). But all in all, good job.

@shrekshao: Oooh, you just completely ruined my Ludum Dare reviewing with that xkcd-inspired game... Thank You!
Alchemic
06. Dec 2017 · 07:21 UTC
Very nice idea! Follows the theme very well. There's a lot of potential for depth here, although the mechanics aren't fully explored. The artwork and music is also very nice.
Racso
10. Dec 2017 · 05:31 UTC
This is a totally under-reviewed game. After I actually took the time to read the instructions and understand it, it became a quite cool experience.

Good job on the mechanics and the awesome graphics!
GiraffeCat
10. Dec 2017 · 08:44 UTC
This is really clever! I didn't get what was happening in my first game, but then I remembered the theme, and so I realised that stacking monsters is bad! I'd been stacking my own monsters, and wondering why they were all bad. Really enjoyed the second game, though. The card art is nice!
tonicreates
11. Dec 2017 · 20:05 UTC
Hi @wakka2 ! I put these together in Adobe Illustrator :)
Thorneto
12. Dec 2017 · 03:36 UTC
Took me a little bit to fully understand the mechanics but I dig it. I play a few card games but I haven't seen that stacking mechanic before. Fun game.