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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #27 | 4.065 | 4.065 |
| Innovation | #51 | 3.968 | 3.968 |
| Theme | #62 | 4.097 | 4.097 |
| Enjoyment | #66 | 4.097 | 4.097 |
| Overall | #75 | 3.855 | 3.855 |
| Audio | #430 | 3.323 | 3.323 |
| Visuals | #629 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
In Cardinal Spin, every action the player takes spins a wheel to determine its outcome.
Unlike other card battlers, this game uses no energy system. Instead, you accumulate 'corruption', which increases the odds of a negative outcome when you spin the wheel.
You will need to carefully judge the risk of playing additional cards and gamble on avoiding corruption.
To upgrade and receive powerful cards, you must sacrifice a card in your deck. The more you have used the sacrificed card, the better the chance of receiving a powerful card in its place. Although failure will cost you your prized card for the rest of the run, the greater the risk, the greater the reward.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Art:
- https://leipea.itch.io/psx-blood-font
- https://flakdeau19.itch.io/pixel-art-texture-pack-256x256
- https://leipea.itch.io/eyeball-psx
- https://retro-spud.itch.io/psx-elk-demon-npc-monster
- https://puszke.itch.io/low-poly-ps1-forest-animals
Audio:
- https://mixkit.co
- https://pixabay.com
Fonts:
- Pixelify Sans by Stefie Justprince
- Jersey 10 by Sarah Cadigan-Fried
How many people worked on the game?2
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I LOVE THIS GAME, I hope you plan in expanding it cause its a really really great idea!
Thank you for the kind message!
Fun game with lots of choices. Fits the theme very well. Good Job
This is absolutely fantastic! Love the concept and how it was executed. The strategy of taking turns off to remove your corruption adds a cool layer of strategy to the whole thing. I did very badly, but had fun along the way :D
As a player who don't rally enjoy deck building and luck games, I think this is actually quite nicely done! I guess it's down to the simplicity of the cards and the ingenious of the wheel corruption mechanics. It is a nice visual representation of how luck works in the game, and tides in nicely with other elements together in a cohesive package. The pacing is really nice, not much downtime yet everything is nicely conveyed, making a run goes really fast and reduces the frustration of retrying after bad luck. The art style and music also fit together nicely too. Well done.
I do have a minor suggestion that it would be nice to have some sort of tooltip when the mouse hovers over any ui elements. It would serve better than the help menu currently in the game, and make the ui more compact. But other than that, I think this is a very well-made and polished game! Well done!
Thanks for the feedback! A tooltip would definitely go a long way. Good suggestion.
I was hooked! Though I couldn't even beat the deer boss... The RNG is brutal that is both fun and a little frustrating. Most of the time even hitting a simple attack took a few turns and others I would breeze through and reach the deer boss in no time. Maybe a few ways to increase your crit chance or reduce corruption before ending the turn would be great. Great job regardless can't wait to see where this project goes!
Fun game and great concept. The gameplay loop is great and has so much potential. I think you could reduce the difficulty a bit, if you have a few RNGs go against you it is very hard to recover.
Visual and sound effects are great. The core gameplay is already solid as well, though right now it's pretty tough and you have to RNG a lot to make it far in the game. The mechanic is already unique enough to distinguish its from its inspiration. I guess tweaking things can be tricky in the time limit of a jam since limited playtest.
More tweaks and balance and it should be able to stand on its own, though there are maybe enough people who really like punishing rng out there who are really into it.