🎴 Awestruck is a deckbuilding card game that synergizes words.
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How to Play
- Click the cards to build a chain and click “Execute”
- Keep an eye on your energy and health
- Defeat the enemies on the floor
- Select rewards to upgrade your cards/stats
Credits
Background
This game was made for Unlikely Collaborators™ Game Jam, which the theme was consciousness and identity through awe and wonder - make awe playable!
We were inspired by Slay the Spire and made a deckbuilding card game where you combine words to create combos and synergies.
During ideation, we had ideas like a word detective puzzle, dungeon crawler inside a library, bugs could eat paper/clothing, and words can be fed to the bugs. However, we descoped them due to time.
Blue_Fox drew the art and came up with the wonderful bug designs:
- Hatchling
- Larvae that can tackle/shove/slam
- Soldier
- Termite with bite/crush ability
- Archer
- Beetle with a snout for acid spray/projectile attack
- Reaver
- Mantis moth that slices
She also drew 23 card images and the game logo.
AstreFone composed the music and created several of the sound effects.
His 2 tracks:
- Airwindow
- Played during combat
- Unertainty
- Played during the title/menu/reward scenes)
Both BGMs were ethereal and ambient given the pads and other experimental/otherworldly sounds.
I used KAPLAY as the game engine for this 2D web game. I bootstrapped the game from kaplay-template.
I created a prototype of the combat system with all text and no images and sounds before adding a reward system, level progression, and polish. I playtested the game many times to ensure the game balance felt right.
In the end, I created 8 floors and added a variety of mechanics to make the game interesting:
- Player can add, upgrade, and remove cards from their deck
- After beating the boss at floor 4, the player can add a relic that triggers every turn
- I made sure there were enough modifier and payload cards for different strategies (aggro, defensive, etc.)
We had a lot of fun making this game so feel free to give it a play!