Cardmare: Descent

Game crashes every time at Asc.2, against the skeleton warlock when I start the round. (I have all special cards in hand, and the ability to draw 3 cards from the get-go)

Fun, seemingly simple game. Just completed 1st Ascension @ lvl 4. Now realizing that the "free use" cards are always the way to go. No matter what I did, I couldn't win unless I abused them.

I think the change with the slash card is broken now. Before it used to draw a card, then pick one to discard. Now it makes you discard first. If you don't have any cards left in your hand when you play slash, it just hangs there waiting for you to select a card that doesn't exist.

Really minor UI detail: when an enemy kills you, the sound of them hitting you should play as the screen-wipe starts, not just the big musical sting.

the movement of the cards in hand is so much better!!! that was the perfect solution to the problem

Nice update! Some thoughts:

- There's a bug. "Slash" triggers all the "start of turn" relics it seems. 

- Ascension 10 feels impossible now (might be skilll issue).

- The -2 draw on turn 1 feels like a serious debuff. (In a weird way it is a buff for Innate + Hammer though)

- Card play mechanic is really nice. To be honest, it doesn't feel like that should be the current focus of the game. I get why you want to improve it, but better "game content" would improve the game so much more. I'm was more looking forward to playing another character than this improved mechanic. Either way, nice job!

I'M RICH! so the cards that cost 0 and draw 1 can loop forever if you have a small enough deck! I'm not sure what I'd do if I wanted to fix this… Maybe prevent the deck from being reshuffled in too many times per turn? i honestly don't know

I don't understand how the card ~focus~ works. I took it at the final stage, and it screwed me over. It did nothing even when i had only my starting attack cards in hand. (was about to win i'm salty lol) Overall really cool game!! Idk if it's just me but the early/mid game is much harder than the late game imo

Not a fan of the saving at the beginning of every turn dynamic - feels like ironman mode, and I'm trying to enjoy the game not make perfect moves.

Also, if you could disable selecting a card while the card display is moving, that'd stop my stupid mistakes :-)

Would be good to have a high score or something so I can see if I'm improving. Great game though!

Victory on Ascension 6! Pretty happy with how the deck turned out.

A couple of ideas for higher ascensions and higher bonuses:

• Ascension: All enemies gain 1 block on every turn.
• You could add one more card to the normal shop, and then have an Ascension that removes one card from the shop. This also means players get to see more things early on.
• Ascension: The starting curse no longer exhausts when played.
• Ascension (possibly a last ascension): One less starting HP.
• Bonus: gain one random common relic. (You’d want to divide the relics into at least common/rare for this.)
• Bonus: one extra freeze per game.

Sometimes restoring a saved game results in an empty hand and only an “end turn” button:

Ascension bug still exists in 0.2.2; I played a game on Ascension 6, lost, and when I went to start again, there were no ascensions unlocked.

Thank you for a really fun game; I’m enjoying playing it, and playtesting it.

Got that while playing a series of the zero-cost two-gold or two-damage cards. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Once I got that, refreshing the page and trying to restart the game had it stay on the screen that says “Running…” forever and never start. Eventually that stopped happening, but it happened several times in a row after getting the crash.

Just confirmed that I can reliably reproduce the same crash by playing the zero-cost two-gold and zero-cost two-damage cards in a loop. And afterwards, refreshing has the same result: stuck on the “Running…” screen.

Awesome game! Love it! Want more!

BUG:
on playing the card that adds "retain" to another card I've got this error:

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ERROR in action number 1

of Alarm Event for alarm 2 for object obj_card:

Variable obj_ghostcard.retain(100081, -2147483648) not set before reading it.

at gml_Script_gc_fadeToBlack

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gml_Script_gc_fadeToBlack (line -1)

gml_Script_scr_resolveCard

gml_Object_obj_card_Alarm_2

NOTE:

couple of times I've clicked the wrong card because another one got discarded and all the cards in hand moved to cover empty space, maybe they shouldn't and as long as I have cursor over the hand area they should not? IDK, just a player opinion; what do I know. Best of luck with the development; this is an amazing project already!

Beat Ascension 1, got “Ascension 1 unlocked” again, no Ascension 2. :(

Nit: if a card like the Chest can’t draw two cards (because there aren’t two cards in the discard), you shouldn’t get gold from Ingot for cards you don’t actually draw.

You may want to display the relics in a couple of rows, or otherwise consider ways of displaying relics that don’t overlap with the gold display:

Successfully accomplished the infinite loop:

Removed enough cards, got some card draw, and had a couple of Hemorrhage cards. Now I can have one card draw the other, and keep playing them indefinitely. Kills every enemy no matter how much health, and since I have the Ingot, I get one gold every time I draw a card, so I can also get arbitrarily large amounts of gold.

This is awesome; thank you for having a delightful set of game mechanics. ❤️

Bug: if you click fast enough, you can play two “Hemorrhage” cards, and they both go to the discard but they don’t both take effect; only one card gets drawn.

Bug: playing against the skeleton enemy, had the one starting defense, played a card to get a second shield, enemy swung for 1 damage, but that deleted both shields.

Confirmed in a second battle: the animation of the shield breaking up plays for the rightmost shield, then the left shield just disappears.

Just discovered a serious bug: I went back and played a game without any of the Ascensions available, then abandoned it mid-game (using the “Abandon” option on the main menu) and played another (not sure if that’s required to trigger the bug), and then after that game ended in death, the character selection screen no longer offers Ascension 1 and 2 that I’d previously earned.

It may be relevant that I gained a level from that run.

Beat the last boss without losing any health:

I’ve hit a bug several times where the “end turn” button is grayed out and can’t be activated, so the game is softlocked.

Truly a card draw for the ages.

Heya, this game is really great! I've been playing all week, I think you're onto something pretty special. I've got a bunch of notes, seems a bit long for an itch comment - is there somewhere else to send feedback?

This is so much fun! Can't wait for more!

Having fun playing so far.  Issue with pickpocket card.  If I play the card too quickly at the start of the round, before the round banner comes up, it gets used but doesn't do what it's supposed to do.  

The blood diamond item doesn't seem to work.  I got it to use with inferno but when I tried to use the card it still cost 3 energy.

Great game! The gameplay loop is a blast and definitely has a lot of potential. It would be cool if there were more variety in actions, especially with enemies—like debuffs, or abilities or something along those lines. But given that this is still early in development, I had a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to seeing the more fleshed-out version of this later on.

I keep looping on the boss even after i beat him.

The loop is fantastic, progression feels really good, and the upgrades feel fun! well done! one more run! Excited for full release. Honestly one of my top games I've played in the last year.

Also, the perks of upgrade a coin or attack - honestly they're pretty much unpickable because they can target any card as opposed to the highest card.

upgrade card is genuinely the worst card in the game it feels like, needs a buff - either exhaust or retain or something.

sreenshot functionality is nice

don't take this the wrong way but, i preferred some of the old monster artwork

Did you mean for it to say new char unlocked? Cuz it is still locked.