Card Dungeon by Akusan
CARD DUNGEON
Summon minions to fight minions unleashed from Pandora's box. Your summons can attack enemy and they can also heal you. But BEWARE! Enemy summons damage you as you attack them.
When you opened Pandora's Box, all the creatures inside break out and inhabit the world. It is also now either the past or future, and they're teleported across the forest. Now they have to cross it to get home. This is not past or future but a 'changed' version of the world.
Credits:
- Design: Akusan
- Code: Akusan
- SFX: @paperpenpiano and Kvazarius
- Game Music: @paperpenpiano
- Game Over Music: Kvazarius
- Credits Music: Kvazarius
- Title Theme: Kvazarius
- Victory Theme: Kvazarius
- Background Art: Jai @ghost-io
- Player Art: Mads
- Creature Art:
- Vivi
- Mads
- Jai @ghost-io
| Link | https://akusan.itch.io/card-dungeon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/card-dungeon |
Ratings
| Overall | 1210th | 2.474⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1202th | 2.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1205th | 2.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1122th | 2.763⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 797th | 3.395⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 634th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 691th | 2.833⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1167th | 2.444⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 8🗳️ | 17🗨️ |

Liked the music and general mood! Not really sure how to win this because it could benefit from animations and UI indicating if I'm in the right direction or not. At the end I think I understood that there is some kind of a hierarchy between each summoned creature and some kill others while some not?
Anyway, good job!
I could not play the game, sorry
Currently each monster you own damages an enemy but those enemies damages the player at the same time. Some of the monsters you own can heal the player I wish I had more time to add more polish elements, I'll try to work with other coders next time so more polish and features can be implemented.
The core gameplay is great, I just felt like it needed some more meta-game indications; I feel like my actions didn't have much feedback save from the cute sound effects and some enemies falling. I didn't know if the attacks were effective or not, if the damage of enemies was high(I didn't lose any creatures in my fist try, so my guesses regarding the creatures might have been decent enough), and when I tried to play again I apparently won instantly(Well some chaos is expected when you open Pandora's box anyway!)
Great job, very in theme!