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A jam submission

Ace of ScalesView game page

A card game where your cards can scale in size
Submitted by Begunkov — 2 days, 2 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#253.8283.828
Innovation#293.8283.828
Theme interpretation#533.9663.966
Overall#683.6553.655
Graphics#2662.8622.862
Audio#2882.5522.552

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/woonaftl/ace-of-scales

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Submitted(+1)

It is a good game. I would like to see it in physical or in AR.

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Fun little card game with some unique mechanics. I lost my first match but made it all the way to the end on my second try. Great work!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you managed to beat the game!

Submitted(+1)

This is a quite well made tile laying game !
To be honest, this could even work as a physical boardgame I think.

The scaling mechanic is the hardest to grasp as it was not clear that you will just eat enemies that you engulf after scaling up. It's also not clear what you will scale into, do you get an upgrade? Does your dragon heal?

After figuring that out the game plays very smoothly.
I'm not sure tying the amount of energy to the number of tiles you occupy is a good design. Once you are losing there is no way to fight back and you are just playing cards until the game over screen without a chance.

I do like the fight for occupying more tiles than your opponent so you could give some bonus for that, but the mana should maybe just work like in Hearthstone where you get +1 every turn. Maybe a bit slower in this game since all cards are so cheap.

Overall great job !!

Developer

Thanks a lot for playing and leaving feedback!

You're right that one player can easily snowball by controlling entire board, that's a big issue with current design. Right now, I think it would be better if there was some constant energy gain + bonus energy for capturing specific tiles, but it's too late to fix the jam version. 😅 Still, I hope I'll design better games in the future.

Submitted(+1)

Very clever take on the theme and awesome card game :) I had some issues with the scale of the window at the beginning (in Chrome Browser) but is was solved by setting the game to full screen. Awesome job! Thanks for sharing it

Developer

Thanks for playing! Glad you liked the game.

Submitted(+1)

Cool game!  I had a few glitchy issues like sometimes it would say I played a card that turn already when I had not (1st move and such).  I'm not sure if I read this right, but it seemed like you click on the icon in the upper-left corner of the card to move it, and the upper-right to scale it.  I was not able to scale any of the cards.  I clicked and it grew & shrank as if to confirm the scaling, but not sure what actually does it.  I think the introduction pointing out these details would be useful, but it didn't take me long to figure it out.  I'm trying it out at the moment on an old laptop which is not full HD, and I had to scale the browser out a bit to fit to the screen.  I could see that possibly messing with the mouse position, but moving the cards worked, so not sure on that one.

Developer

Thanks for playing! You're absolutely right, I really had to spend more effort into teaching the game mechanics properly, especially because some of them aren't obvious. I hope I will learn my lesson for future games.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Interesting consept. Needs a few tries to figure outScaling mechanic but this is what makes it interesting

Would be cool if I could reset the last fight instead of restarting from begining

Developer

Thanks for playing! 😊

Submitted(+1)

This one is awesome! Really fun game with a unique concept! Also, even though the handdrawn art looks a bit weird it really blends in well in the overall looks! Really well made, great job! :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing and for your kind words!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! I’ve seen a few card games in this jam, I think I like the way you incorporated the theme into yours the best so far. Congrats!

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This is really impressive for a jam, feels like this could be turned into a full card game! Nicely done.

Developer

Thanks for playing and for your kind words! 😊

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