I like the idea, took some time to learn but I haven't played many card games before. Congrats on your entry!

This is a nice start, too bad I coulnd't enjoy it fully because it was not fitting to my screen so I didn't see all that was happening :/

The lack of animations can be a bit confusing, sometimes you don't really know what happened with your cards while the opponent is playing. However the game does have quite the potential, I really like the concept and the general feel of it. Hope to see you in the next jam!

the art you have looks promising.
I know it looks incomplete, but I can see how it works.
love it! keep up the good work!

Fellow first timer here. Congrats on submitting the game. The idea is very good, and the pixelart you managed to finish are also pretty nice. Too bad you didn't have time for more art and music.

I think that it’s interesting to have a lot of mana to use. For some reasons the player HP is outside the screen so I can’t see the total, but could play a round anyway. Maybe add more ways for getting more cards to play more spells with the extra mana/ life pool?

Thank you all for the great feedback!
I myself wasn't quite satisfied with my entry, but your kind words helped :)

@entropy, @ristoretto I uploaded a new version additional to the actuel entry, if you want to try it again. With the new version every screensize should be working (The font gets pretty illegible on low resoultions though)

@hopeen To deal with taht problem at least a little I have the battle log, where you can read what happens, but if I can manage to add animations that for sure whould be great and way better. I'll see if I find time for that.

Ambitious for a gamejam game but i think it is good you tried to fist get the underlying mechanics good of course some art would made it feel more complete but you can play it (and in my case lose it) so well done

I think the UI could be clearer if you put the attack values of monsters on the top of the card, just like you did with HP. I like the concept though and it fits really well with the theme!

a .exe is NOT a universal binary :angry:

a .exe is NOT a universal binary :angry:

Not sure what to say because i did not played many card games before and was not easy to understood if you did not read the actions. But liked the idea you had and awesome, considering its your first jam and your first time with unity, props for that :D

I am not used to play card games and I had some troubles to understand the game, but this is only me.

However I like the look of the game and the drawing works as expected. I also liked the battle log.

Not a bad first try but maybe you bit off more than you could chew for a first time, card games are can get tricky :)

I'd suggest keep working on it a bit just to iron it out some so you can learn where to put focus in the next jam. Art is not bad at all for a jam entry where you did it yourself.

This is a really nice game! I really enjoyed the mechanic and it was pretty good game overall, the balance was spot on! And the AI is clever enough haha

My suggestions on how to improve this game (you can ignore this if you want):
- Make the cards distinct enough, by using different colors for monster and spells (you can use the text of the card but it needs to be more prominent)
- Zoom in on the cards on hover, it does not only look cool, but will help with reading the text on the card
- Highlight the available spots to put your cards on, in the spawn face the spawn area, on the main phase, you targets (in case there are monsters the monster, otherwise the enemy player)
- Make the points clearer, right now it's a small text in a small area, it could be bigger and somewhere more visible, I do like that it's a part of your card, but reading it is kinda hard

These would help understanding the game much better!

I think it has a lot of potential, you can even go and steal ideas from other video games based on TCGs haha

All the stuff you managed to get done in this Jam, alone, is incredible, keep it up!

PS: Edit your itch.io page, and put the LD44 entry link in the "Ludum Dare submission URL" below the tags, so that you can appear here: https://itch.io/games/tag-ludum-dare-44

Cool game, i didnt see my HP while playing,but nevermind. Fun to play for a few games.

Fantastic first LD game. I liked the graphics. Can’t go wrong with a decent bit of pixel art 😄. Not bad for just 72 hours! Nice one 🙌

@positive thanks for the great feedback, I'll definitely keep working on this. Right now I am working on animations for the enemy turn and a menu system. When i am finished with that I will work on some of your ideas, I really like them.

@flamus You can see your HP on the top right corner of your player card, I'll make it more prominent in a next iteration