My Weapon, My Wooer:

In this card game, you will play as a cute mimic girl who has made an alliance with an adventurer she had become enamored with after she had intruded on her dungeon chamber looking all cute. As the situation calls for it, the mimic will transform into various weapons to assist her beloved adventurer in felling her fellow dungeon dwellers. What that weapon will be, will be decided by you and good old RNG.

This game was made in about 2 weeks for the 16th Pirate Software - Game Jam the theme of which was:

You are the Weapon 

And so you will be using cards to shift a mimic into a variety of weapons as well as several different items that raise her companion's stats.

How to Play:

The controls are entirely left mouse click/drag or touch input on your mobile device.

For a more detailed explanation in the Mimic's voice, refer to the in-game tutorial.

At the start of each floor, you will be presented with 6 cards. 2 cards will be added to the hand with each kill, as well as gold. At least 1 card will always be supplied to you. There are three card types: Orange, Blue, and Gold.

Orange Cards (Offense / Weapons):

Drag and drop these cards onto enemies to deal damage. The number on the top left of the card represents both it's value and base damage. The number on the top right within the die icon represents what random value will be added to the damage. If that weapon has a d6 icon, for example, a random value between 1 and 6 will be added to the base damage.

There are four types of damage a weapon can inflict: Chop, Magic, Pierce, and Smash which are represented with icons. To inflict double damage, match the weapon with the enemy's weakness (shown as the icon to the right of their name).

Blue Cards (Defense / Buffs):

Drag and drop these cards onto the adventurer to boost/replenish her stats. These cards also have a base value that represents the number they boost a stat by.

The three stats are Health, Shield, and Damage. Health represents the adventurer's hit points, max of 5. Extra healing is wasted. Shield are hit points that an enemy must deplete before health can be affected. Shield is infinitely stackable. Damage cards boost the adventurer's personal damage, which is always a flat value. This is the damage she deals in her counterattack when an enemy attacks her health directly. Like shield, it is infinitely stackable.

Gold Cards (Free Money):

After this card leaves the hand and is dropped anywhere on the screen, a d100 will be rolled. A random value between 1 and 100 will be multiplied by your current gold multiplier and added to your total gold.

Earning Gold:

Gold is earned by killing enemies, aside from the gold cards. The amount you earn is equivalent to the amount of damage you dealt in the final blow multiplied by the gold multiplier, which as a base value of 1.

Gold Multiplier and Discarding:

You may choose to discard any blue card and most orange cards to boost your gold multiplier. Discarding a card will add its value to the current gold multiplier amount. When gold is earned either by killing an enemy or activating a gold card, the amount you earn is multiplied by the gold multiplier. After which, the gold multiplier is reset to 1. Orange cards with a value of 0 cannot be discarded for balancing purposes.

To discard, drag the card to the Mimic's mouth.

The Goal:

For each floor, there is an amount of gold you must obtain. To win, you must either meet or exceed that amount. Losing all your Health before then will result in losing. Winning a floor is rewarded with a small cutscene.

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My Commentary:

I include a few notes on each jam game I submit, feel free to skip over. This is the first card game I've made, and it was a very stressful process. I went back and forth on lots of mechanics and failed to implement many of my original ideas. If you bother to read the GDD, you'll see that a lot changed. But I think what I made in the end is fun. I was playing it a lot more than I needed to while testing. I'm also satisfied with the art I drew. Since I took so long to draw them, I'll be sharing them. I did it for the last game I spent a lot of development time drawing for, so why not? People seemed to like them. I'll be releasing them as public domain assets. So they're free and can be used without crediting me. 

My only regret really with this game is not spending more time on writing. I think what's there is fine, but it could be improved, especially the end of level cutscenes. But then again, I'm usually not satisfied with my writing. That's just how it goes with artists, I think.

I noticed I'm supposed to provide a prototype. Well, I polish as I go, so there's no version of the game with only base mechanics and programmer art... 

Known issues:

I noticed after uploading a few polish things that are kind of minor, like the music not looping in the level select on downloadable versions. Not sure why that isn't checked by default ￣へ￣ I'll fix these things with an update if somebody notices other issues worth exporting and packaging this game again for.

Credits:

All music by Eric Matyas: https://soundimage.org/

Sounds effects from: https://www.zapsplat.com/