Ludens Fortuna by deniskazantsev

Play tarot card deck to control stability. Empty deck and use all cards to finish the game.
Made with Unity 2020, InkScape.
| Link | https://kazantsev.itch.io/ludens-fortuna |
| Link | https://kazantsev.itch.io/ludens-fortuna |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/ludens-fortuna |
Ratings
| Overall | 11th | 4.229⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 27th | 4.125⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 42th | 4.083⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 110th | 4.063⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 215th | 3.604⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 347th | 2.382⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 101th | 3.69⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
Underrated gem of a LD game, I'm incredibly impressed by all accounts.
It was tough to came up with rules and implement all tarot cards into the game (and then polish visuals and bugs) but such feedback pays for all efforts :)
Very good mood too, but if I have to find a flaw it would be the lack of a background music, which would have improved immersion even more.
Overall amazing though.
PS: I like octahedrons (have the mobile account with such name and using octahedron in avatar a lot)!
> the game is pretty easy once you discover few tricks
I was trying to find more ideas, but didn't come up with anything. Luckily, I tried a few more times and finished the game with 21,215 at Arcana XXI. There is quite a bit of luck in this game, I just had a few really bad runs. You really got me counting numbers, thinking about card usage order, and strategizing. The cards felt a bit like the game "Reigns" which was really good. I felt like there were many cases where it was simple math of how many reds vs blacks I put down and it didn't even matter what I did. But all the special cards like "discard random" and "shuffle remaining" really brought depth to the gameplay that got me scratching my head. Awesome work on the card game design there. Thank you for the game.
My highscore is 15571 at Arcana Level 18 :)
You have created quite the addictive experience!
It took some real strategy to make sure I could survive every round!
Some of the cards were real curve balls, and I was always surprised with every new round!
You have a real winner on your hands!
Amazing Job!