Dungeon Deck

I found an error when you kill an enemy with club and there is  another enemy you keep the club and keep the energy

Can you please explain the difference between the Launch files? The 2.4.0 version (with the little controller icon) does not run for me in Windows. It opens but when I click on the deck it doesn't do anything. The other versions run, but are limited to a fixed window size. Please advise, thanks

also one more idea if you can i would like to see how this would work in an endless mode

I also like the newest update

I have a good Idea for something to add as a item "pouch" what it could do is allow you to gain an extra card per turn but it destroys itself until the battle has ended. one of the downsides  should be that you lose a move every turn 

letssssss gooooooooo!!!

This is a really fun game and I love how many different card types there are! IDK if it is possible but it would be great if the game saved when the tab was closed.

suggestion: add a coin clean up

Finally beat it!  Having seen the boss at the end of the beach, I think all my runs would have beaten the game if I hadn't run into crashes.

The game is pretty good, and seems to be getting better! 

Thoughts on cards:

Third hand was too strong at +3, but it's too weak at +2. +3 with a cost or limitation-- perhaps having it set your current available moves to 3, for example-- would be better, but +3 is probably fine since the power creep from the new cards is pretty high (mitosis, as an example, is better than pre-nerf third hand, and copies most but not all of what you could do with it).

Draw two is always bad now, and that's probably fine.  It's funny because in most games it's super OP.  Used to be good iff you had third hand, now you'd prefer mitosis instead of course (strictly better).

Although discarding is usually good, discarding on hammers is bad for you.  Hammers themselves are still good-- maybe even better-- but only if you have no more than one in hand per turn. Card forge helps them a bit, but since they are very anti-synergistic they are no longer an archetype distinct from swords, which is too bad. The novelty hammer suffers from this especially, since its niche (the forest boss battle) relies on the ability to stack several of them per turn to make up for being worse than the single-target hammers most of the time individually.

Bows are still, and have always been since I first played, the best archetype by far. Double shot crossbow is even more better than the viper gun now that there are a number of useful reasonably attainable arrows to choose from, and it's probably the best weapon in the game, though some of the other legendary bows can give it a run for its money with significant investment.  Having to have projectiles is a cool downside, but a VERY manageable one. 

Projectiles are good because bows are good, but mostly suck otherwise.  It's notable that both darts would be quite decent even if they weren't projectiles, which has an outsized impact because they are the top-tier projectile-class cards.  Bent arrow is very good early in the game when you can't just arbitrarily have whatever ammo:bow ratio you want, but trash later in the game when you'd much rather discard than keep it in hand, at which point crafted arrow is better if you need something more than just legendary ammunition. Wonky arrows are the worst starting items, except they go with the training bow, the best starting weapon.

Daggers are sad.  They wish they were bows, but they are trying too hard.  The main two advantage that daggers have over bows are that daggers can be used as singletons in a pinch and daggers can play any number of cards with a single action. Unfortunately, both these abilities are quite weak because normal card draw is extremely weak (costing 1 play per card and requiring you to dilute your deck with non-daggers) and diversity is essential, limiting the number of 'extra moves' compared to bows you might possibly get, and daggers are very poor weapons as solo options due to their low damage and lack of useful secondary effects.  Daggers also mostly don't ignore thorns, which is very relevant because they rely on making 4-5 low-damage attacks per turn.  Throwing daggers can help with this, but only a little due to their rarity and the number of them you'd need to outfit a deck.  That's not to say that daggers are *bad* as an archetype, just that they are much worse than bows; they are still quite a bit better than swords and hammers!

Summons are meta-defining.  Every deck benefits from a good chunk of summon cards, though throwing out *all* your other cards is usually rather suboptimal. Summon cards are unique in that they don't take up space in your deck while they are in-play, and without thorns it costs at least 1 enemy turn to get the summon out of play. The training dummy was always one of the best summons, and with the buff to 3 hp it's even better.  I have yet to find a deck in which it isn't an auto-include, at least up to 3 copies.  Lonely golem is a great design for a weak summon card to have available early in the game (even the starting cards would probably be okay if the code could handle it), but it's obviously not going to cut it in a late-game deck. I like clockwork golems (and I liked them before the buff, too), but they probably aren't very strong, even post-buff.  If they returned to hand post-draw rather than taking up space when the ability activates, they'd probably be more competitive with the other golems, though they still fill the powerful attacker niche pretty well.  Clay golems are bad, but work just as well as clockwork golems 99% of the time.  Health insurance is a scam; get Forest Golems instead.  Forest Golem is the best healing source in the game, and with the buff they are amazing tanks as well.  The 1 dmg/turn can really add up with multiple copies as well.  Armor golems are very good as well, with a different niche, surprisingly.  Their purpose is to increase the effective MAX hp for allies (especially dummies), so that low-hp allies can survive enemy attacks in the middle to late game, which is, in fact, worth the small negative change to ones effective hp/turn modifier much of the time. Smoke golems might not be in the game any more, but they were cool.  Card Forge is essential to the new Hammers+Swords archetype, but useless otherwise.  The turn o matic costs gold which is a no from me, but I can see it being good, objectively.

Health items and shields are pretty interchangeable.  You usually want at least 1 health item unless you have particularly good forest golem luck, and a couple of shields is often a good investment.  There are no interesting heals or shields, so you just use steak and small shields, then later bread and tall shields.  You don't normally want more than 1 health item (though 2 isn't a bad situation to be in, really, or more than 2 shields (though three is okay). This is because it's important to do at least moderate damage to enemies most of the time, and deck space is quite limited.

Vampire sword is good, because it is basically a healing item with a cool effect (damage), so you can swap bread for it, but all other swords are pretty bad.

Decided to write a review on some of the things I noticed in my last run:

Cards:
- Card Forge: Good concept but seems to be a bit too weak at the moment. My idea to improve it is to either make it free to discard the blades to it effectively swapping the blade for a new card or to increase the drawn cards to two.
-Training Course: +1 damage to a single summon also feels a bit too weak at the moment to use. My idea to improve it is to either make it apply to more than one summon (whether that be all summons like Thorn Growth does which might be a bit overpowered or a +1 increase to a random 2-3 units) or to increase it from +1 to something like a +2 or +3. 
-Fuzzy Armor: It seems like it would be good in a situation where you would need it but it’s not often that such a situation would arise making it a card that’s good but hard to ever use. The only idea I have to improve it is to have it able to go over the max health with a limit of around +10 added each use and have it only be able to be used once per battle though that may be too big of a change.  
-Clay Golem: A bit weak compared to other allies you can obtain. My idea to improve it is to either give it +1 damage or to halve its health and have it summon two on play. 
-Ethereal Deck: The cards it creates are good but using it derails your entire build up till this point making it tough to use even if you are aiming to use it from the beginning. My idea to improve it is to either have it add to/replace your hand or for it to add to your deck instead of replacing it. 
-Royal Flush: I haven’t tried it yet but based on the description it sounds like it would heal an average of 4 health when using it while plenty of other items (Juicy Steak, Bread, Vampire Blade, etc) could do similar or better without discarding the entire hand. My idea to improve it is either to have it heal 3 per card making it an average of 8-12 or to have it heal based on your number of cards without discarding. 
-Tall Shield: Pretty good but I would up the ally shield gain by one.

Enemies:     
-Swooping Gull: It discarding your hand doesn’t seem to matter much, maybe in some builds it could be a big problem but it seems to help more often than hurt.  

Bugs/Mistakes:
- If an ally dies while you have it enlarged it turns the screen dark and makes most stuff no longer intractable, luckily it’s easy to fix just by going into the pause menu and back.
- Snowball card use’s Mitosis art. I don’t know if it does this when you actually get the card but that’s what shows up when you unlock the card. 
-Warrior Rabbit has the ability to summon itself but when the new rabbit is drawn it doesn’t summon another unit itself. I don't know if this is intentional or not..
Edit: 
-Wooden Boomerang has overlapping text.

Areas: 

-Cave: It seems a bit easier than the forest mainly due to the boss. My idea to improve this is to make the cave boss a bit tougher, i'll provide a further detailed method on how the boss could be made tougher once I battle it again.  (I mainly play forest for the extra challenge though so I may have just been really lucky every time I went cave..) 

Edit: Thought I should mention that although this comment is only talking about the bad stuff this game is phenomenal and I have absolutely loved playing it.  10/10 game you got here. 

Too Complicated 1/5

how exactly do I use a arrow?

Discard pile no longer works.

Looks really fun but I can't play it because the text is microscopic, unreadably small. "What is this, a card game for ants?!" I hope you can find a way to fix it!

this is incredible! had no idea what I was in for when I clicked on it

done quite a few runs now, very satisfying trying out the different builds.

Hit a crash after finishing the beach boss seagull

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Great game favorite strategy so far is weakened spam

Great game very fun and addicting my only suggestions are tell what the effects do (e.g. Blight, Fire, Poison) and make it so its not overly hard to counter thorns most times your stuck with a melee only loadout and they get to attack you more than once essentially (also maybe make money a bit more useful like a 1 dmg attack for 2 coins that doesnt count as a turn hint hint)

why is artists clay free

pretty fun!   

My two big notes are that I think the font could definitely be improved.  Not very comfy to read the cards as is.     

Also, feels odd that summons get attacked for free.  I feel they are already weak as is, so having them not even save you some hp feels a bit bad.   

Otherwise enjoying it!

Added an image, in the chance it’s of any use

I had 2 clockwork golems up, fighting against a hedgehog monk.

When the hedgehog monk died so did the clockwork golem and the game crashed

Had a fantastic time in the game! I do wish the test was a little easier to read and the explanations were more thorough but otherwise amazing!

loving it so far, but really hard to see. is there no way to increase the resolution? making it a full screen window doesn't scale the GUI. thanks

Bug report: Clicking the deck before the opening animation completes can freeze the game; I wonder if this is caused by the same issue as the bug another commenter reported on "select next deck" screen.

My game usually crashes from lack of memory before completion :'(

On safari, quickly dragging a card to the center doesn't play it; the card falls back to the hand.  Only dragging it to center and waiting a moment allows cards to be played consistently; this is true whether you drag it to the highlighted center of the board or onto the enemy.

Very fun!

The only card left from the beginning was the good oldy lumpy club, it saved me like 6 times from death 

-btw is this the end of the game?

I love this game. Here are a couple of potential balancing suggestions that I thought of:

- Reduce Third Hand extra turns to two maybe? Third Hand is incredibly strong with bonus cards. Especially paired with Hidden Sight and Reanimator. With a decent amount of Third Hands and Hidden Sights, it's possible to instantly play your desired deck from the start.

- Hidden Sight is incredibly strong. Maybe it should only allow for the player to select from a random portion of the deck rather than from the entire deck?

- Artist's Clay could maybe have a limit on the amount of uses it has on a specific summoned card. With multiple Artist's Clays and Armored Golems, it's very easy to get 7+ Armored Golems (which would give a total of almost 50 shield per turn). 

- Armored Golem should have a limit on the amount of shield it can give. Because it applies shield to all player cards, the amount of shield that Armored Golems applies increases exponentially (because of the sheer amount of shields, I had like a 0.2 second game freeze every time the shields applying animation happened). Perhaps there can be a limit to the amount of shield that Armored Golem can apply (like shield closest 3 player summons or something).

- The Bear enemy is great because it counters Armored Golems.

Really really fun game concept overall. I can't wait to see this game grow.

could you add cheats? i just wanna be able to see all the cards and use them or is there already cheats?

qestion how dose the cropse sowrd work for items like  the card shooter

by the way, do you have a discord server?

gameplay mechanic idea: what if there were passive upgrades you could get sometimes

I had so much fun playing this! This idea of making the dungeons in the forms of cards is a really cool idea! My only complaint is that there's no way to discard cards besides from selling them at the shop. Other than that, I had a lot of fun playing! I might play again to see if I can get further! Good game! 

good game but needs more levels i made it to beach level in like three days of trying but there was nothing after beach level

is there a way to remove cards from the deck?

After playing the game for about 10h these are my improvement ideas:
1. Make a circle around the main playing field that "pushes away" the coins from the middle of the playing field as often the coins hinder you from laying down cards.
2. There is not enough abilities to lose cards, at the third chapter at latest the deck is just getting too big and there is no way of getting rid of those cards (apart from the shop, but selling 3 is not enough - maybe unlimited sell (or 5,6,7) but only get money for the first 3?) .
3. A map would be awesome where you could see when you get to the next shop, generally there are not enough shops imo (mostly for losing cards)
4. It would be awesome to be able to skip taking a card after battle
5. Enemy thorns are overused, minion/arrow builds are OP compared to the knife builds imo. 
6. Currently winning the game is too "easy"
7. It would be great to permanently increase hand size within a run
8. More special events would be nice (like a mystic trader that wants a specific card and gives you some bonus... health, armor, improve a card permanently...)
9. For the parts above maybe look at the games poker quest and die in the dungeon, if you need inspiration)

The game is truly awesome and addictive! I'd love to see this prosper!

the raccons is so god damn strong how do i get past em

Good game

This game is awesome man! Great work on this :)

Funny thing I found: Clockwork Golem's ability triggering on an Artists Clay duplicate makes an invisible card that costs energy but doesn't do anything lol.
(Also for some reason 1 spider spawned 4 spiderlings, idk why. I was using arrow cannon and crazy darts.)

This turtle is trying to catch up to my  shielding but im slowly killing it -_-

Is there a way to get rid of cards from your deck entirely other than one random shop event? It feels like my starting deck of five cards was even stronger than the one I ended up with later in the game just through sheer reliability, whereas later on I just ended up drawing too many cards that only did well in combos that I couldn't encourage