Post by MeBID in Scrappet Kaiser Princess - A 1p board game. Now playtesting!

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Here's a newer build with some issues fixed and some new graphics for the first few screens.

https://mega.nz/file/V8UXzQYS#LIeS-vb-51SIXcPaU817NGKeaVPpr2ct-Efm1OzZ3YA
I'm still working on the alignment for the kid inventories, but let me know if the stuff that's closer to the design images are incorrect.
Those two screens are the most complicated, so hopefully I'll be faster on the future ones.

Some bugfixes
- Jessa should be able to go anywhere with Bossy Bestie now.
- Jessa should unfriend properly if you lose your starter.
- The unfriending of the others should work as expected now.
- Score should be added up accurately (you were only getting 1 point per card instead of the card's strength).

Plus
- All card art added.
- Event cards added.
- New fonts.

As far as I can see, Mindy can still trade at the playground. The only two scenarios where it won't happen are:
- Automatically if she doesn't have the strength + bucks + ego to trade for any of the cards.
- The player presses cancel when she doesn't have enough strength + bucks and they don't want to spend ego.

After seeing the event cards, I wonder if maybe you'd like to do a two stage approach to showing some of them.
Looking at Intense Dodgeball as an example, the texts imply Spliff is at the playground, but it's possible the player didn't send him there on the day that the event is drawn or that he's even unfriended at that point.
I was thinking in the reveal screen that currently exists, instead of showing the entire card, just show the blue part that explains the event. And then before the scene the event affects, if it's effect actually applies, reveal the entire card.

Zoql3 years ago

This is pretty good! I'll need to make screens for the parts for the playground and whatnot but it's pretty cool!

- I forgot to add a DSD deck reference when I designed planning screen 2. That could be added by just showing the reference when hovering over "Alley"
- I agree about the Events. It's fine in the board game because you know they're just random cards, but in the digital version it should try to reflect the game state a little better. This suggestion would be more work and is a little unnecessary, but it would be fun it the texts animated... Anyway, did you need me to send a separate image for each Event notification?
- I'm currently working on a nice title screen and an actual logo (the Scrappet Kaiser logo is for the card game not the board game lol), but after that I'll try to whip up a design for trading and pocket-to-binder stuff... If I have time after making a tutorial video, I'll see if I can make a nicer duel screen as well

I have to admit, I was fairly skeptical about this digital version being done before the deadline, but this is actually coming along very nicely! I'm impressed! You've got a lot done in such a short time. I still have a few concerns though... I do like how the automated rules make the game move much faster in the digital version, and it's definitely more accessible too, but I put a lot of work in the presentation of the board game version. In the digital version, you miss out on little touches like physically removing photos from the binder (this could be done digitally, but I think it would slow down the pace of the game), or being able to put Griswald together, or flipping over Mindy's phone for the next notification...

I guess what I'm saying is, when I submit this game to the jam, I'll be putting files for both versions in there, suggesting that the board game version has more character while the digital version is more accessible. I hope Kyle plays both versions, but if he were to choose just one, I would nudge him toward the board game and try to help him with the rules from the chat since I plan on being there

Zoql3 years ago (1 edit)

This took longer than I expected but I love it. Here is the title screen/box art

If my scrappet doodles didn't make it clear enough though, I'm really bad at drawing shoes

EDIT:

A few things I noticed while playing the digital version: The description for the Store and Playground mention "coins" instead of "bucks."

Anyway, here are some screen designs:

Playground trading:

And the screen for moving cards from Pocket to Binder:

MeBID3 years ago

That's awesome!

For the events, if you have all the parts as individual elements then I could probably whip up a quick animation for the texts.

Zoql3 years ago

Alright, I made an Event folder in the link and will be dropping off the parts in there.

By the way, I started writing up the submission page for this game, and while I suppose it doesn't matter too much, I'm not sure what to classify this project as. It's a board game, but it's not yet a physical game, and also has a digital version... Also I'm pretty new to this and I want to send you this key to the game page so you can be a co-creator and can add your own screenshots/update the game files without having to go through me, but I don't see a way to send a private message here... Um... I think I'll also drop that in the event folder

MeBID3 years ago (1 edit)

Sweet as. I've grabbed the key and linked up if you want to remove it to avoid others doing the same.
Edit: I'm not sure it lets me do any editing/uploading though.

Zoql3 years ago

Okay I think I figured it out. I uploaded a new link in the folder

MeBID3 years ago

Looks like that one worked.

Zoql3 years ago

Alright I'm heading to bed now. I'm going to be focusing my time on making the tutorial video in the last 24 hours, but if you need anything, let me know and I'll see what I can do. I'll probably submit the game as well once I get the tutorial on it, but since you have access to the page, you can upload the digital version whenever it's ready

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