What a fun game! I really enjoyed this -  Combining cards by stitching them together is such a fun idea and I appreciate how it ties the mechanics and aesthetics together so simply and cleverly.

I've never played slay the spire before, or any slay-the-spire-likes, so as someone with no prior knowledge of the genre, I think you did a really good job at explaining things intuitively. I was never confused at what was happening or why things were the way they were. I really can't think of any good criticisms or feedback to give... Maybe a lame answer but everything was rock solid!

I'm so excited to play more of this! Powering up cards was super fun, and I can imagine that there could be some very satisfying emergent moments where the player is able to create a real OP card and have a killer run. Just a lot of fun!

Also, as someone who loves a good unreal engine shader, the cross-hatching shadows look REALLY good. Nice stuff!

Played it here on stream around 4:30

This is a really cool concept for a rougelike deck builder. The theme, art and music are all really well done and make the game feel really good. The concept of combining cards is also a interesting game mechanic. It adds a lot of replay ability and potential combinations to the game. I feel like more healing effects, cards to shuffle your some/all of your hand or more debuff cards would really help with strategy. Really enjoyed the game and look forward to what you do in updates, great job.  

Solid game! I put together a video review of the game and am going to send it to you once it's uploaded. Keep up the good work!

A rare gem of this Jam, had a lot of Fun playing this.

Overall Fun: It suddenly is a game of the one of my favorite genres but covered with an unusual idea. "Hearthstone" but only Your Hero on a table? Why not? Or maybe You has an inspiration from "Slay the Spire"? I could say: it worked.

Graphics: Power of UNREAL ENGINE! The work with rendering, materials, animations, are Out of This World! I haven't succeeded to achieve this quality in my game. Visuals are absolutely Banger here!

Controls: Mouse Cursor only. It is such simple. Nothing more was needed.

Sound/Music: It exists. Human made, not AI. It worth.

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The Big Point (Hello Fairy!)

After the second Encounter, when returned to the map, the description of icons was Hidden (not Visible), so for the next turn I had no idea what is on the next node (despite I remember Green Crown icon stands for a story quest). Maybe it's just a little mistake somewhere, because the description was Visible on every next return to the map.

A very low amount of Gold earned. When reached the Tailor Shop (Scizzors sign) at the end of the map (next node was a Camp, then Boss) I did not have enough money for some goods (I had 125/180).

I may be mistaken, but does the Bite card (Deal 4 damage, heal by 5 if this attack kills) heal when used against Boss? Or I just had a brain lag, lol?

By the way, yes, it's no sense to collect AOE cards (low damage to a group). In regular battles, there are many enemies with big amount of health and armor. Leaving a s scratch on each enemy is useless, you rather buff Your damage and use two strong cuts on a single target and defeat it. In boss battle, there is a one Boss, single target, AOE becomes "low damage to the one", of course You want to have "BIG damage to the one" instead. 

First the good:

-The first nodes are very good at introducing the game's unique mecanics
-Binding animations are cool. It is a good thing that they can be skipped, as I don't see myself watching them more than once per run.
-The aestetic is quite unique

The big point:

The game balance seemed off to me. With the binding/upgrade mechanics, the idea is that you want to quickly combine your skills together, forge a few powerful attacks and use card removes to get rid of extra attacks so you have a thin deck full of crafted powerful cards. Why not, it gives the game quite a different gameplay feeling compare with let's say slay the spire. My problem is that the game keep proposing in its card rewards a lot of cards that doesn't seem to justify their inclusion in the deck by themselves (except may be reckless assault who is the only high damage card I remember). For example cards like "deals 1 vuln to all enemies", "deal 3 damages to all enemies" or "next turn get an extra bead". It feels very weird that the cards the player can get have a very difficult time comparing against the basic block or the opportunity cost of simply combining two blocks. Attack augment follow the same pattern, why pick one when you could combine two blocks and card remove an attack?

The rational move is to skip card rewards until you get something really interesting or until you have already combined everything (and added a knob to every cards, for good measure). At least with this demo, the game didn't give me a reason to act in any other way, hence how I finished my runs with so few cards. Once a strong deck is assembled, basically nothing can perce through my block-blocks, not even the boss. I just need some extra damage.

In short, I don't know where you are going with the balancing, and since I don't have the full picture and can't say how much of a problem it actually is. I just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter.

=== Some other minor things I noted ===

It is very counter-intuitive that a cantrip card combined with a non-cantrip card doesn't cost 0.

Reckless assault being a skill seems like a big flavour fail.

Me trying the number change node:
-Wait, I only gain 3 on one of the two numbers of my block-block card?
-Wait, why can't I go back to choose another card?

Seymour enemy: It is very hard to keep track of their damage, as you need to take into consideration the hand discard (and possible reshuffle). I would suggest to use the scrap size when "end of the turn" is pressed instead.

The anchor has the same "hand discard at the end of the turn" confusion. Also, I don't think it should trigger the reflect effect, as the player will likely not realise that the anchor will deal damage at the end of the turn.

I saw the scrap pile saying it is empty when it wasn't (I think it was when there was no card in it at the start of the turn, after I just played one card)

Be wary with healing even if it up to 20HP, some degenerate people may stall fights until they get every scrap of heal they might get.

Conclusive: The "deals 5 extra damage" is not reflected on the card damage value, which is very confusing

Stretch => attack point => you mean attack bead?

Good one, I'll try it again later down the line to see how it progresses.

I really like the setup, the graphics, and the all around LBP/Unravel vibe. It's a cute aesthetic and the other elements that come down the line fit into the theme too - like the binding mechanics (and the other card morphs) are cool, both as gameplay but also the satisfying animation that creates the morph action. I like some of the fresh card types and their design, and some of the relics too. There's also a good bit of satisfying moments, visual plus sound - deck shuffles comes into mind - all these tiny details add up <3 

You might want to test it on ultrawide; and don't worry, a lot of big title don't do this and it's an early build too. The end turn button action area being off by 60-70%, I have to click someone top right of the button or outside the button to get the hover click action. And on the very same topic, the map shows nice in the midle, I can see how much it was done for the FHD, but the edges of the screen are white. And there's some other overlays that don't cover the screen well on ultrawide. If you don't want to optimize for this, you can lock the title on full hd even on ultra wide, and have black left/right, rather than have the game be visually broken. 

We really like Slay the Spire 1/2, I  had a joke on your stream that we called Steamdeck "the Slay the Spire machine", bought the boardgame too. With this disclaimer out, I felt it was a bit 2 much like STS, from tooltips, to actions, to map and even the encounter/rest icons. Now this was a good thing for me to test the game, I felt at home, but as the game dev goes on maybe you could stray a lil bit more out of STS so I don't get this insta vibe that it's a 1-1 copy (I know it's not, it's just 2 familiar on some parts). 

All in all, a well thought take on the genre that has it's own DNA, keep at it and good luck with development. 

Cheers!

I liked the art style, and the gameplay was fun overall. I'm looking forward to the full release to see what kind of endgame deck I can build.

The learning curve felt pretty smooth. The descriptions were clear enough, and the combat encounters introduced new things at a good pace. I could clearly see how different enemies pushed me toward different strategies.

The binding system feels quite strong. If the full release uses something similar to Slay the Spire's three-stage structure, I'm a little worried it might become too easy to bind most of the deck into very strong combinations. (Since card deletion feels frequent now) It may just be something to watch as the full progression gets longer.

For QoL, I'd also like to see some hotkeys. I'm used to playing this kind of game with a keyboard, so having shortcuts for common actions would make it more comfortable for me.

Crocheting, particularly amigurumi, is one of my favorite hobbies. When Triston Griffiron recommended this to my partner, my partner passed it along to me knowing I would want to play if for no other reason than the crochet doll hero. Stitch is delightful, and I low key want to crochet my own.

The art is wonderful. I'm particularly fond of the sewing needle and thread and the pins to show who is going to be targeted by an ability. The animation when stitching two cards together and sewing a button on are quite fun, though I also appreciate that I can click to skip them if I wanted to. The sewing kit to end turn and the abacus to keep track of the number of abilities really helped add to the feel of the game. I really liked that when joining cards, the order you clicked on them changed the way the card look. It was cool to see the different ways I could combine two different cards. The enemies are pretty cute, and I like the way they are 'stuck' on the popsicle stick. I even like some of the playholder art, and felt it did a good job of conveying to the player what you have in mind for the finished project.

The volume wasn't well balanced. I turned my volume up because I could barely hear the music at the beginning. For much of the game the sound seemed fine, but every so often I would get a sound or a bit of music that was uncomfortably loud. It was most noticeable with the sound that played when sewing two cards together, in part because that particular sound was unpleasant for me. I played around with the volume settings on the main page, which did help a lot, but I still played the game with my volume set on the quieter side so the louder sounds wouldn't be too loud.

When I added a button to a Block Card, it would target the last enemy instead of myself if I actively used it. I noticed it with both a White Button and a Blue Button. I noticed it with the White Button on my first run, when I was still experimenting and figuring out how things worked, and with the Blue Button when I wasn't paying enough attention to the card to notice the button. I know the buttons add bonuses when you discard a card instead of using it, but it does seem odd that using it would benefit the enemy in this case instead of myself.

On one of my runs, I got the Poisonous Stuffing Treasure. Afterward, it seemed like I would sometimes take damage when I attacked. It wasn't clear whether that was do to the Treasure or something about the enemies I was facing, though I don't recall having taken damage when attack them before (the enemies were Ginni T. Poppins). Editing while doing another run: It was due to the enemies. I don't think I really acknowledged their Momentum ability before, in part because the other times I had faced them, they were with other enemies and focused on the other ones first. I was facing three of them, and one of my cards did damage to them all. I noticed that they all got poisoned, and then saw that my health was lower than I had thought it was, and connected it to the Poisonous Stuffing instead of the enemies ability. I don't think this is an issue on the game's end, as the ability is clearly visible and mousing over it explains things just fine. I was just paying more attention to the poison than anything else and that was on me.

I think the biggest thing I would have loved to have seen more of was crochet and yarn specific related items. Maybe something like a mini crochet hook as a healing type card or Treasure, or having the hammock look like a granny square at the rest sites. Throwing a yarn ball as an attack was fun (though I was also going "Nooo! Don't tangle the yarn!" each time I use it lol), and I loved the way you used needles, pins, and thread throughout. But I also wanted more yarn things. Also, as a small note, at one point the king referred to Stitch as a "knitted knight". I personally don't get annoyed when people use knit instead of crochet for my work and was amused by the alliteration, but I know there are several folks in the crochet community do find it frustrating when a crocheted item is called knit. I don't know if it's something that really needs to be changed, but I wanted to give the heads up because it was something I did acknowledge.

Overall, I thought the game was fairly easy, though for a jam game or demo, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I lost twice, once on my first playthrough and once on a playthrough where I was doing a bit more experimenting and testing certain things I came across in earlier plays, but most runs I won. There were a few card combinations that felt very powerful, such as combining a Block Card with Body Slam, but it also felt rewarding to figure out those sorts of combinations. Luck definitely played a factor, which is to be expected in this type of game, but it felt like it favored the player a fair bit. That said, I had fun with it, and I still needed to think about my card choices and combinations in order to win.

I really liked the core idea of the game, with the combination of deck builder and crafting imagery, and I think you put it together really well. I hope you continue this and make a full game, with more story and acts, because I had a lot of fun playing it.

Hello! I completed your game and it was quite a lot of fun. It most definitely has potential for steam!

Things I liked.

• I liked the art and the theme
• One of my favorite parts of the game was combining cards! That is quite a novel idea! One that I haven’t seen before.
• The theme is also quite solid.
• What I really appreciated was the fact that the cards were extremely clear and their effects were obvious. Mostly everything worked as predicted.
• I liked that you used rough sketches as placeholders instead of AI art. greatly appreciated!
• the learning curve is smooth just like Slay the Spire and the various card types show that the game will certainly get more complex in the future.

Things that can be improved.

Mostly nitpicks that you can choose to ignore

• So what you are calling armor in the game, I usually call sield. temporary HP that goes down. before main HP. This could be because I play mobas more. But this was one thing I wanted to point out. Regardless it was clear what it was after 2 turns so not an issue.
• The story text and button UI does not match the rest of the game. This is probably a WIP but thought to mention it anyway. (Also, try not to have 7-10 words per line as a general UI rule)
• Auto end turn would be nice.

I don’t really have a lot of nitpicks as this was quite a nice experience.

If you have any other questions feel free to ask. You have earned a follow and in the future, a steam wishlist!

This was very enjoyable! I wasn't able to record my live notes since the game is full screen without any window settings, so I'll just leave my overall thoughts instead.
This has been an enjoyable little roguelike. It's definitely taking notes from Inscryption, but I like Inscryption so I like this too. The aesthetic, while tonally similar, is definitely doing its own thing with the sort of stitchcraft look, and I appreciate how everything looks and sounds. It's very well put together, although this level of polish makes things like the UI text look a little out of place. The Game Over screen feels especially lacking in personality, but other UI elements as well just feel like they have a poor font choice that makes them look like placeholders.

Speaking of placeholders, there are a few assets that appear to be photographs of hand-drawn pencil sketches, which I assume are placeholders that will be fleshed out with more polished artwork later. These sketches are nice, and hopefully they'll be used as reference material if they are replaced, but as they stand now they definitely look like unfinished assets, so that's worth pointing out.

The sound design is on point and the music is fine as well. The presentation overall is really nice.

The gameplay is a little tricky, I don't play that many roguelikes but I very recently played a title in a game jam with a very similar Armor/Attack system, so I assume this is a relatively common convention. It certainly made it difficult but engaging to try to get through a fight unscathed, and the various attack addons you gain over time made the combat get increasingly deeper the further you go.

Unfortunately, I was eventually roadblocked presumably due to some kind of resolution issue. I did notice the skill beads on the left side were cut off a bit (there are three beads but only two visible on my screen), but this became an actual problem when I progressed to the furthest visible edge of the map and found I couldn't click on the next node to proceed as it'd been cut off by the screen. Unfortunately, that's when I had to call it quits. I'm not usually the type to harp on about resolution settings, but it may be essential for a title like this, since there's no windowed mode for me to stretch the picture to fit my screen.

Aside from that one issue though, you've got a very strong game here, and I liked it a lot!

• Youtube Link / Twitch Link
• Graphics : Generally fine , although there was some weirdness (I don't think Dr. Porkchop is doing ok)
• GUI : Generally fine but there was some weirdness (bugs) that should definitely be addressed.
• Performance : Flawless
• Music / Sfx : 
  • Music : Generally fine
  • SFX : Generally fine.
• Gameplay :  Turned based deckbuilding roguelike with action economy , not really my go to genre but it's fine and works.
• Misc Issues : 
  • Windows defender firewall pops up for the game.
  • A few bugs , e.g. that weird horned skull thing on the map.
  • The buttons actually being double-agents and helping your enemies.
  • Selecting the card you want can be a bit weird / difficult at certain points.
  • Animation speed's setting will reset seemingly
  • Death cello can start playing before Stitch has actually had the killing blow dealt.
    • It's a bit loud.
  • Around 33:40 of the stream, I encountered that bug that prevented the turn(s) from progressing. No idea how it happened and rewatching the footage I can't tell , it didn't seem like there was an obvious prelude to it.
• Notes : 
  • The 10 cards you get at the start could be added a bit faster.
  • Would be nice if there was an alternate card display mode. E.G. 
  • -200 points to Gryffindor , the cutscene shows the WRONG BUTTON(s)!
  • I'm a sucker for meta-progression for roguelite/likes , I don't think there's any here [yet?].
  • Some QOL options would be nice, if only enemy, let me click on the card rather than needing to click drag, same with self-use stuffs like block.
  • Compendium for cards would be nice if it could be filled in as the player finds them.
    • There's something 'weird' about the treasure compendium and I don't quite know how to nitpick it. I think maybe it hugs left too much without any divider between the various things?
  • I might be wrong but it seems like you can 'bank' buttons for later use but not the threads (skill/attack binds) , if you can't use the attack or skill bind at that moment (lack of appropriate cards) then maybe remove the selection?
  • More enemy variety would be nice, outside of Porky the Pig , it seems like it's all Board game cardboard pieces. (Top and Truck not withstanding.)
  • A relic that gives +1 white bead would be nice [If it exists, I very much would've liked to have gotten it.]
  • More button variety would be nice, especially ones without an on discard effect. 'On Use' effects would be nice, or a couple buttons with both.
  • Feint's art really needs to be touched up.
  • Honestly you could probably incorporate the buff stealing bug that I had as an actually effect for some enemies to make some fights more difficult. (Maybe a poltergeist / ghost thing?)
• Final Thoughts : I request, no DEMAND that I be put in the hall of fame for the game, for being the FIRST to beat the game on ultra-hardcore mode! [joke] Overall while it's outside my usual preference for games, I like it; but the game could obviously do with some polishing and additions, I like the 'thread' mechanics on combining two cards to share their effects and would like to see more weird combinations of those going forward.