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An Arm and a Leg by DaBoombus

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made by DaBoombus for Ludum Dare 52 (JAM)

In An Arm and a Leg, sell your organs and body parts to organ harvesters in order to make it through tough times.

This game features dark themes such as depression, mental and physical illnesses, and of course the surgical removal of your body parts. The art is not too graphic though, we are not trying to gross you out.

There is no real win condition, just try to survive as long as you can!*

The game is played by clicking on the cards at the bottom of the screen that are laid out in a timeline. Cards have "Play" values indicated by the first row of numbers on the bottom of the card.

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They represent:

Time -> the main scoring metric

Cash -> the green stuff we all need to survive, if you run out don't worry you can always sell an arm or a leg.

Energy -> A nebulous resource, every action you take with energy below zero will add an energy disease to your deck

Mood -> Another nebulous resource, every action you take with mood below zero will add a mood disease

There are also "Burn" values on each card, a card is considered "burned" if you draw more then the 8 cards that fit in your hand. The card over the fire spot will be burned if you draw any more cards.

In addition cards can have additional effects indicated by their text that can happen on "play" or on "burn".

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At the center of the screen there is a bit of a UI mess that is meant to help you understand what is going on. It contains the last 2 cards "burned", the last 2 cards "played", and the last card that was added by a card effect (not diseases, those are meant to catch you off guard just like real life :(

There are also certain cards that are "played when drawn" These cards will automatically be played as soon as you draw them causing their effects and score to apply.

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The game will end once your hand is filled with "disease" cards, or once you sell all your body parts and can no longer be harvested.

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That's our game, this is our first LD, so as cheesy it sounds we hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it.

*Selling all your body parts is the unofficial win condition since I have not managed to do it in testing, it might not be possible.

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/an-arm-and-a-leg

Ratings

Overall 450th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 435th 3.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 164th 3.694⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 296th 3.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 532th 3.324⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Humor 352th 3.029⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 679th 2.941⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Steffo
11. Jan 2023 · 05:13 UTC
Oooh, a card game! I'd give my liver for more of those! :syringe:

## My score

I survived **445 hours**!
_considering that I got bored of micromanaging and started clicking randomly after a while, I think that's pretty good, hehe_

## Feedback

### Game

The mechanics are great and **remind me of [Reigns by Nerial and Devolver Digital](https://www.devolverdigital.com/games/reigns)**!

It was **very hard to understand the mechanics** directly from the game, though. Perhaps a better UI is needed?

I loved how the **effects of every card were thematically meaningful**!
I didn't really enjoy how almost **everything makes you draw two more cards**, which eventually would end up getting burned without you having almost any control over it.

It seems it's really hard to find a work in this economy... Maybe **more "Work" cards in the starting deck** would've been nice?

Too bad for the complete absence of sound, I think it would've made the game funnier or more serious, while right now **the mood is a bit lacking**.

Great job overall! :smile:

### Distribution

Thanks for **providing a HTML5 build**!
Since I am playing on Linux, I appreciated it!

**The game does not run on Firefox**. (It probably requires `SharedArrayBuffer`, which is not currently supported.)
It's not your fault, but I figured I should be letting you know!

### Game jam

It's so weird you haven't got any comments yet :sob:
ginathepotato
11. Jan 2023 · 05:21 UTC
I think this was a fun little game! I only got a score of 154, but that's ok lol. I got a bit overwhelmed by the number of cards in my hand toward the end, but overall I enjoyed the game quite a bit!
Andreia
11. Jan 2023 · 06:55 UTC
Only got 181! I really like the theme and the cards. Why there are so many bills (in game and real life :') )? You're just missing the 'do the dishes card' (unless I missed it) and then you would've capture the essence of life. I was a bit confused by the cards and wasn't able to fully figure out how to make it through longer but I was really intrigued by the game and think it could become something really interesting. Great work!
rubr
17. Jan 2023 · 17:50 UTC
I survived 513 hours! It was fun, I do love me an interesting card game concept. I will note that at the size that the game is displayed in the LD page, it's a bit difficult to read the card text. Would have loved an option to enlarge individual cards to read them. Otherwise, I liked it!
Sheree
20. Jan 2023 · 09:58 UTC
Had a lot of trail and error with your game. I love the idea of a card game take on harvesting organs. It was a weird game (in a good way) and I wasn't very good so I got to experience a lot of the fail screens which were a laugh. Cool game!
CursedEmbassy
22. Jan 2023 · 00:45 UTC
fun game! good job!
Sublustris
24. Jan 2023 · 13:07 UTC
412 hours!
Great entry! I really loved the sprites, and game feel. 5/5