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Cards of the Scaling City's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #725 | 4.013 | 4.013 |
| Enjoyment | #1047 | 3.526 | 3.526 |
| Overall | #1080 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Creativity | #2224 | 3.368 | 3.368 |
Ranked from 76 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?
You're scaling up the scope of a city by building it, while trying to build up a deck of cards to match the scaling score.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Font: m5x7 by Daniel Linssen
Palette: WoodSpark by Anubi
Music: Unnamed, by PhilRaco
All other assets are mine.
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Art is great and the game itself is really fun, would love to see this fleshed out even more :)
enjoyable and cozy experience! Love to see a similar concept executed well!
This is such a cool and polished game all in just 4 days!!! I'm dying to see more of this it was hard to understand at first but when I got it I had a lot of fun!!!
What a great game, I want MORE!!! XD I would love to play this on mobile! Hope to see you in GMTK 2025!
The style looks beauty, but I didn’t understand weel how to play.
The style and art are so great! I had a hard time understanding the mechanics at first, but eventually it clicked!
Great style, really enjoyable game!
Awesome card game! It's realy cool that you managed to make such a game in only 96 hours, it feels realy polished, and the pixel art is realy nice :D
There would be cool to see more expanding on this idea.
This is such a unique combination of the city-building and the deckbuilding genre. I'm not an overthinking type of player, but this game made me calculate everything in mind. I got to day 4, before I ran out of luck and failed right there. I'm telling you, if you don't follow this idea and publish the full game, someone will steal this brilliant idea later on.
The game is very polished, cute pixel art and fitting soundtrack. I can't complain about the small icons on the box, since scaling texture is problematic in Godot. 5/5.
I think most of my feedback for this has already been echoed in the comments, but yeah fun game that needs a little UI polish. Really well made for a game jam and a good idea.
Just so I can write something original, I feel expanding this to Carcassonne/dorf romantik style could be interesting, or just a larger grid in general. I felt the rounds were maybe too short/not enough time for the consequences of my actions to ruin me, compared to the length of a round in something like Balatro (which I think is an inspiration for this?). Not sure about any of that, just thoughts :)
Increasing the round length is interesting; It's not something I've really considered in terms of balancing, but it's really interesting to think about. If I ever decide to expand on it I'll definitely keep it in mind.
Glad you enjoyed the game and left a review!
Super dope city builder game, very cute artstyle, i would love to make a game like yours one day, so motivating !!
Love this game ! Maybe a little difficult to remember the type of the tiles once they're set so we can place the next ones correctly ! But love the art and the gameplay :)
Great game! I liked the music and the art which made a very chill atmosphere whilst still keeping the logical theme of the game, I'm not great at the game but will definitely be keen to try again another time. There isn't a lot bad to say about my experience!
nice pixel art! i think you could just provide the explanation of the card right away instead of waiting
Oh, finally, I found a city-builder here! I think it fits the theme perfectly, but for some reason, almost no one else went in that direction. Incredible game!
Fun - really enjoyed this, could be a good game to continue with - lots of depth here.
couple of things which I am sure you are aware: tooltips on existing buildings to remember what they do. a summary overlay to show some points or at least that tiles are affected by the new tile.
loke the art and the sound to its a very complete experience
Sweet game! It's really well made. The one thing that bothered me is that I couldn't check what already placed buildings did. Other that it was really nice, congrats!
An easy to understand game with good risk and reward design. Can't wait to see the extended full game, I will definitely buy it!
Hey fellow city-on-a-grid game maker!
Had a lot of fun with this. Choosing the right policies is key to scaling your score (great mechanic by the way).
The soundtrack is amazing while the gameplay is super polished. I enjoyed playing this.