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A jam submission

Joined Hands by Team Py-DotView game page

Here is Joined Hands an innovative deck builder game in which u combine cards for victory - GMTK2021
Submitted by folcon, FonkinS, Kishiroh — 2 minutes, 38 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#17773.2503.250
Overall#26802.7312.731
Fun#27342.5282.528
Presentation#32942.4172.417

Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
We join cards together, combining the best and worst aspects of them, players have to strategically combine.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Cards are fun!
I didn't totally get how the combine works, or why suddenly I can only draw one card each round, but it was fun, thanks.

Developer

Yeah the only one card per round is a bug :( 

Card Combining:

If the lines of two cards have identical effects, then they will be added together (aka. Damage 2 & Damage 4)

Otherwise the second cards line will overwrite the first card

Submitted

I saw this one in the stream and had to try it. One of my favorites of this jam :)
Please make an updated version of this, that adresses the bugs. I'm definitely going to revisit this in a couple of weeks.

Developer(+1)

Yes that is the plan. Glad u liked it :)

Submitted

GameJam-symptoms aside, that is actually a fun little game! Unfortunately i also keep getting that "This is text" bug.

Developer(+1)

:(... Well we'll be releasing an updated version after the jam with that fixed if you still want to give it a go then ^_^...

Submitted

Actually... i do. 

I am rather new to itch io, i just made a collection of games to check out after the voting, and added your game to it, that should do the trick

Developer(+1)

When u combine cards click the COMBINE button before going to the next turn. (We definitely should have made that more clear)

Submitted(+1)

Unfortunately after drawing a few times, I only received cards with the sentence "This is text" all over them and wasn't able to combine or use them anymore and had to restart the game. Nice idea and good work! Would like to play it again when this is fixed

Developer

Sadly, that's a frequent bug, that we will try and fix in the post-jam version, if there ever will be one. Thank you for the nice words tho!

Submitted

I don't know how to play it.

Developer (1 edit)

Here's the rules if that helps?

It's a game of card combining:

  1. Draw as many cards as you want, just be careful not to draw too many, specifically 3 of either burn or freeze.
  2. Combine them in different ways to make better cards, order matters!
  3. Play them on your enemies, drag and drop the cards on the enemy  you want to hit.
  4. Hope you don't get hurt too badly!

The cards you combined uncombine at the end of each match!

Unless you have a specific question? =)...

Submitted(+2)

Cool game! I liked the minimalist feel of the art. I also didn't realize there was a limit on drawing, which turned out to be an unfortunate mistake.

Submitted(+2)

Making a card game's something I haven't seen before in these jams (at least the games I've happened to play), pretty fun! Good job!

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! Did run into what I think is a bug though were I got what I think is placeholder text. (image below)

Developer

Can u tell us exactly how u got that bug? (because that should have been fixed ages ago)

Submitted

I've managed to replicate the bug again and recorded it too. Hopefully it can help!
Developer(+1)

Thanks a ton, we do want to fix this up so this will be a bunch of help!

Submitted(+1)

Cool idea, the first card game I've played in this jam, I thought I have unlimited card so I burned all my deck on level 2 XD

When I drew a lot of cards, the text immediate changed to "Insert text here". Also I was confused about combinations (I suggest don't let the players combine randomly, give them some basic formula and let them work from there). Still that was a cool concept for a card game (with a dash of Dragon Quest RPG xD)

Developer

Yea, I found that bug :(...

I've gotten a bunch of feedback of things to make better. So I will probably make a "final" version after the jam that fixes stuff... I'll still leave the jam version up for posterity ;)...

The combining rules are pretty simple, when you combine cards, each line is compared and text that is the same on each line is added together, if it's different then one overrides the other =)...

Glad you liked it ^_^...

Submitted

I'd like to have a combine mechanics in a roguelite deck builder where you replace your cards either permanently or depending on the rules for replacement/merging  for the card mechanics.


Downside - got stuck on the second level with no cards.

Developer

So at the beginning of every combat your deck resets the combinations, so you can recombine the cards you've got in different ways... Though it looks like that bug is preventing people from seeing that :(...

We were going for a roguelike deck builder concept, but building the deckbuilder part took so much time, so we could only do a small part of the roguelike part >_<...

Submitted(+1)

I really like the idea behind this game! It's a cool spin on single-player digital card games like Slay the Spire.