Card Crawler by gamesplusjames
Death in the dungeon is inevitable. Play your cards right to survive as long as you can.
Survive as long as you can in the dungeon! Attack enemy cards by placing your hero cards in the play zone or drag weapons directly on top of them. Earn coins to unlock more heroes and journey deeper into the dungeon, getting harder all the time!
Controls
- Just the mouse
- Escape or P to open information screen (or click the pause button in the top right)
How To Play!
General Gameplay
- Attack enemy cards and object cards by placing your cards on top of them
- each action (attacking, placing, drawing from the deck) costs 1 turn action
- enemies take a turn when you use all your turn actions
- if there are no enemies active on their turn, you advance to the next wave
- you can purchase extra hero cards using the coins you earn
- enemy characters will attack you, the player, if there is no other card in front of them, damaging your health
- lose all your health and it's game over
Hero Character Cards
- Place on the board before attacking
- rests (flipped) for 1 turn after attacking
- once on board can be moved to other slots
- gets a free attack at start of turn with no rest
Weapon Cards
- Can attack straight from hand
- is discarded after attacking
- placing on board removes attack ability and flips the card but can be used to block enemy attacks
- Attack action is described on the card
| Link | https://gamesplusjames.itch.io/card-crawler |
| Link | https://gamesplusjames.itch.io/card-crawler |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/card-crawler |
Ratings
| Overall | 141th | 4.016⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 227th | 3.806⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 568th | 3.435⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 836th | 3.532⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 490th | 3.891⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 378th | 3.518⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 631th | 3.534⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 60🗳️ | 39🗨️ |
Presentation is very solid, those cards are very stylish and physical during gameplay. Sound really helps sell that too. I couldn't ever survive very far, and it took me a bit to realize I could spend a turn to move a hero. Death definitely was inevitable though! One round I started with four shadow beasts and didn't even try to do anything lol.
I could easily get into playing this more if it were a little less inevitable and had some unlock mechanics ;) Felt very polished though and mechanically very sound.
The sounds seems a bit close of Inscryption, right :p ?
The card seems to be in a format close to the American Poker I think, it's original.
Oh yeah this looks so damn like Inscryption it's crazy xD .
But I like the economy part and the fact you can move your heros.
I like the concept but the game seems unballanced, in particular since we lack of hero, and they become more and more expensive, but our money never grow that much.
Plus, no hero have perks, I think it's sad for this kind of game.
Love the concept, the art and the SFX.
I had a lot of fun playing this, if i were to add something it would be cards with som other effects, like some sort of AoE card for example.
Good job! Keep it up!
One thing I will say is frustrating is when the spikes spawn and get auto-attacked, thus killing you with no chance of repair. ;-;
Ah well, I got to level 50 and had a good time - well done and thank you. =)
Just kidding. This was an interesting attempt, and I think with more balancing the gameplay could be pretty good.
My two big gripes are that the presentation could be way better (even for a jam game) and that there was no built-in tutorial. I understand that time was limited when making this, but I had no idea what I was doing for the first couple games, and didn't even spot the "buy new hero" thing until a few games in.
A great engaging game, lot of polish and detail which is very appreciated!
Also, every card game me a giggle - great game!
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450162412?t=08h38m32s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
The game works quite well, although it gets repetitive a bit too fast. It would be cool to have some card effects (either enemy or in hand) which move around cards already on the table.
Very nice graphics and control scheme.
Card designs and graphics were fun. Audio and sound effects
Might be interesting to add some upgrade elements between waves. Some way to heal would also be nice (unless I missed it).