By the way, in the demo I ran into an issue where I couldn't select a card for Break Limits while having 10 cards to choose from. This happened after trying to view the board then returning to the selection screen.
Reminds me a little of Robert Asprin's 'Dragon Poker' (from the novel 'Little Myth Marker' in his Myth series.)
I love the concept of playing a game vastly beyond one's ability to control it. But best of all, the devloper has managed to keep it fairly approachable and fun to play out different combinations!
The only issue I have is that this game plays more like a combination of Vingt-Et-Un and Blackjack (rather than strictly Blackjack).
I would offer a suggestion to the developer to encode and graph the various complications or system balancing will end up as an impossible task.
Discovered a bug. During a game, when the hit button is available, choose the pause option, and then rather than clicking “resume” or “quit”, click in the blank space where “hit” was. You’ll hear a sound as though the button was clicked, and then when you resume, the hit button will be disabled.
(Quitting and continuing is the only way I’ve found to recover from the bug.)
Clicking over any interactable that is not on the "new screen" causes the iteratable to be disabled, in some scenarios, it can also disable the ability to play. ex. Trump card (use) -> view prev. screen -> View deck | pretty sure that soft locks, don't know if you need an extra interaction once you view your deck
Given the difficulty of obtaining the Old Baseball Card, I was really expecting it to be something powerful, rather than a card that has no effect at all.
It doesn’t seem like the computer opponent takes Hall Pass into account: I just watched an opponent play Hall Pass (which should have shown them their next draw) and then play the next card which made them bust.
yes, the way the AI works is visible to the player, the only thing taken into account is their current total.
They should probably make the AI smarter so that it could look into it's own deck and possibly stand if they have a sufficient chance of busting, but this would ruin their predictability. They could at least make it so that hall pass and stuff like that give them somewhat of an advantage, or make sure they don't make choices that guarantee they bust, like with official trump card.
I honestly wonder how stuff like using graveyard cards is decided.
The “scratch” card brought into play by “Terminate the Tower” doesn’t seem to have the same effect of increasing in value when more scratch cards are played.
Using a sleeve on some special cards (e.g. “scratch”) doesn’t work the way I would have expected. I was hoping it’d be the equivalent of playing it at the start of each turn.
COntext : The alucard got blood donor card to continueously heal to full and get the lover to get valentine card, which heals him for 14 +1 from the blood donor card, and heal him to 52 again.
The card you get from keeping a Baseball Card until it's old (Old Baseball Card) should start increasing in value or something like that, rather than just doing nothing. It's become collectable after all!
I´ve decided to try speed running this game. Time starts when you click hit for the first time and ends when the final opponent´s health reaches 0 my pb so far is 9:26.62
aaaand i ended up playing a reverse which swapped my devil card because it was in play also, and it later came to stab me in the back like 5000000 times because the giant rat got a winning blackjack and would have normally dealt 15 damage but due to the devil card he ended up doing 90 instead 😡😡😡😠😠😠😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🥺😢😥😥🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😭😭😂
This is like "Dance of Cards", but blackjack. I don't like blackjack (nor poker) because those are just luck-based games. But this and "Dance of Cards" are very cool games. I really enjoyed this game. In my first try i died very soon, but after that i understood what healing is very important :) So i took hearts, And killed everybody on my way >:) Just.. very cool.
I want to preface this saying I absolutely love this game. All of the card combos are great. The only thing is that needs to be improved is the ai. The 2 of note are necromancer never uses the grave card ability even after he busts, and the bouncer if he only has a 21 and 10 will hit again if the 10 shows up first even tho that is a guaranteed bust. What really pushed me to make this comment though was against the janitor (who on his own already makes kinda strange key card locks) drawling hall pass and then busting with the card supposedly revealed to him by hall pass. Again the game is great it could just use a bit smarter of an Ai especally with later fights.
how tf am i expected to beat this he only has three cards 2 10s and a 21 card that gives shield so even if I get 21 (my deck is mathematically built to get 21 so long as i spit out the whole deck btw) he tanks it with the number of shields he gets
This is just incredible. The idea of playing Blackjack with all kinds of other cards mixed in is very funny, and the fact you have made such interesting and related effects for those cards I find supremely clever!
Absolutely loving the game, had a couple of card ideas.
Double edged sword: Value - 0. On play: both players choose a card from their play, draw, or discard pile to burn, then burn this card.
Overheal: Value - 3. On play: lock. On heal: if you are at max heath, deal the healing as damage to your opponent and unlock.
Broken heart: Value - 5. On play: lock. On health reduced below 0, heal to 1, lose that much max health, and permanently remove this card from your deck.
A Card Suggestion: Skip, Value: 0, Description: Your Opponent Cannot Hit For 1 Turn, Then Permantely add a +2 and another skip card, then burn this card.
there should be an infinite mode where you can just keep playing and build the best deck, and maybe a sandbox mode for testing card combinations or a card index that unlocks after "beating" the demo once so you can see any cards you might've missed
Where TF is my card go? (Death Fortune Card did this + Memorial Card, the combo so destructive, it ruined all my deck card into 7 card only deck, INSANE.)Also i had noticed i had negative chip LMAO
I got unlucky cause i didnt get the get out of jail free card (even tho while i had the slime opponent i got the get out of jail free card with the social security card, but it never made it)
Update: how did i win without 'get out of jail free' card💀 and my trap card is hidden💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I one shot Alucard for 1152. It was 18 damage and 3 terminate the tower doubler cards. 1152 is 18 times 2^6 so I'm not sure if there's a bug or I just suck at math.
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I love this concept, would buy instantly.
By the way, in the demo I ran into an issue where I couldn't select a card for Break Limits while having 10 cards to choose from. This happened after trying to view the board then returning to the selection screen.
Thanks!!
I'm working on that for the next update - I seem to have introduced some problems related to the peek button in my last update
Really fun game.
Would like to play the full game when it release
skill issue. /j
more of a /hj since there ARE strats
ik, just trying to not be rude
Great game!
Reminds me a little of Robert Asprin's 'Dragon Poker' (from the novel 'Little Myth Marker' in his Myth series.)
I love the concept of playing a game vastly beyond one's ability to control it. But best of all, the devloper has managed to keep it fairly approachable and fun to play out different combinations!
The only issue I have is that this game plays more like a combination of Vingt-Et-Un and Blackjack (rather than strictly Blackjack).
I would offer a suggestion to the developer to encode and graph the various complications or system balancing will end up as an impossible task.
Discovered a bug. During a game, when the hit button is available, choose the pause option, and then rather than clicking “resume” or “quit”, click in the blank space where “hit” was. You’ll hear a sound as though the button was clicked, and then when you resume, the hit button will be disabled.
(Quitting and continuing is the only way I’ve found to recover from the bug.)
Thanks, a few people have reported this now. I need to do some work on this part of the game...
Clicking over any interactable that is not on the "new screen" causes the iteratable to be disabled, in some scenarios, it can also disable the ability to play. ex. Trump card (use) -> view prev. screen -> View deck | pretty sure that soft locks, don't know if you need an extra interaction once you view your deck
This is a super fun game! Can't wait to play more
Thanks! More updates coming soon!
Given the difficulty of obtaining the Old Baseball Card, I was really expecting it to be something powerful, rather than a card that has no effect at all.
It will be improved in the next release!
Really enjoying this!
The Bouncer is a great boss.
Thanks!!
It doesn’t seem like the computer opponent takes Hall Pass into account: I just watched an opponent play Hall Pass (which should have shown them their next draw) and then play the next card which made them bust.
yes, the way the AI works is visible to the player, the only thing taken into account is their current total.
They should probably make the AI smarter so that it could look into it's own deck and possibly stand if they have a sufficient chance of busting, but this would ruin their predictability. They could at least make it so that hall pass and stuff like that give them somewhat of an advantage, or make sure they don't make choices that guarantee they bust, like with official trump card.
I honestly wonder how stuff like using graveyard cards is decided.
The “scratch” card brought into play by “Terminate the Tower” doesn’t seem to have the same effect of increasing in value when more scratch cards are played.
They do, but it only buffs Scratches that have already been created.
So a brand new Scratch created by Terminate the Tower will start with 3 damage, but will increase the damage of all currently existing Scratches by 2.
Ah, interesting. I was expecting the buff to be “buff any future Scratch you use” rather than being attached to specific cards.
Is that an intentional design choice? Would it affect game balance to do otherwise?
It's intentional since it is the same way that Claw card in Slay the Spire (the reference for this card) works!
Using a sleeve on some special cards (e.g. “scratch”) doesn’t work the way I would have expected. I was hoping it’d be the equivalent of playing it at the start of each turn.
>Bring alucard health to 19
>Alucard got blood donor card and heal to 52
>Tries to kill again
>Heal to full
>Get the lover valentine
>Finally about to kill
> Got valentine card and heal to full
COntext : The alucard got blood donor card to continueously heal to full and get the lover to get valentine card, which heals him for 14 +1 from the blood donor card, and heal him to 52 again.
Blackjack Challenge
1st :
Choose Spades
You can only choose a card that has value and a suit (Tarot included)
Go to : Flip a coin ; Head go to lounge, Tails go to Basement
2nd:
Choose Clubs
You can only choose card without value
Go to Lounge
3rd
Choose diamond
Spend as less chips as possible
Go to : flip a coin ; Head go to basement, Tails go to lounge
4th
Choose Heart
Always pick a negative value cards (Credit card included)
Go to basement
The card you get from keeping a Baseball Card until it's old (Old Baseball Card) should start increasing in value or something like that, rather than just doing nothing. It's become collectable after all!
It will be improved in the next update!
I´ve decided to try speed running this game. Time starts when you click hit for the first time and ends when the final opponent´s health reaches 0 my pb so far is 9:26.62
the time can be really improved cause i was able to get 9:00.73 while playing really sloppy
Nice! There are some very very fast players here too: https://www.speedrun.com/Dungeons__Degenerate_Gamblers_Demo
i playedthis for nearly 2 hours straight while high as nuts good game
184 Shields, wow
How TF does the Bouncer have more shield than me 💀
Putting some negative to reduce his win to -1
Finally beat the 223 shield guy, i think the bouncer punching the air rn😂😂😂
I guess you can say, the Bouncer "bounce" its way out of the lounge 😂😂😂
I PLAYED A JACK IN THE BOX AND THE BLIND GUY THAT HAS 55 HP IN THE LOUNGE PLAYED A DISCARD AND DISCARDED MY JACK IN THE BOX😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂
aaaand i ended up playing a reverse which swapped my devil card because it was in play also, and it later came to stab me in the back like 5000000 times because the giant rat got a winning blackjack and would have normally dealt 15 damage but due to the devil card he ended up doing 90 instead 😡😡😡😠😠😠😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🥺😢😥😥🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁🙁💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😭😭😂
lmao this game is so absurd i love it imagine playing blackjack with someone and they just burn their own card with a lighter
This is like "Dance of Cards", but blackjack. I don't like blackjack (nor poker) because those are just luck-based games. But this and "Dance of Cards" are very cool games. I really enjoyed this game. In my first try i died very soon, but after that i understood what healing is very important :) So i took hearts, And killed everybody on my way >:) Just.. very cool.
I want to preface this saying I absolutely love this game. All of the card combos are great. The only thing is that needs to be improved is the ai. The 2 of note are necromancer never uses the grave card ability even after he busts, and the bouncer if he only has a 21 and 10 will hit again if the 10 shows up first even tho that is a guaranteed bust. What really pushed me to make this comment though was against the janitor (who on his own already makes kinda strange key card locks) drawling hall pass and then busting with the card supposedly revealed to him by hall pass. Again the game is great it could just use a bit smarter of an Ai especally with later fights.
This game is so fun! Maybe i will put some non-classic cards in my irl blackjack game too
how tf am i expected to beat this he only has three cards 2 10s and a 21 card that gives shield so even if I get 21 (my deck is mathematically built to get 21 so long as i spit out the whole deck btw) he tanks it with the number of shields he gets
you can burn his deck with yellow card
i didnt have any but I also shouldnt be forced to get cards im not guaranteed to even get
Anything that disrupts your opponent's deck/play makes quick work of him. Yellow card, Victim card, 4 mana 7/7, key card, +2 card, etc.
i shouldnt be forced to pick up those cards tbh
I giggled like an idiot with this game. I love it! You gotta believe in the heart of the cards, because there's no way to predict what will happen!
"I play an SD CARD and end my turn!!!" fucking lmao
This is just incredible. The idea of playing Blackjack with all kinds of other cards mixed in is very funny, and the fact you have made such interesting and related effects for those cards I find supremely clever!
Absolutely loving the game, had a couple of card ideas.
Double edged sword: Value - 0. On play: both players choose a card from their play, draw, or discard pile to burn, then burn this card.
Overheal: Value - 3. On play: lock. On heal: if you are at max heath, deal the healing as damage to your opponent and unlock.
Broken heart: Value - 5. On play: lock. On health reduced below 0, heal to 1, lose that much max health, and permanently remove this card from your deck.
Keycard + Break Limits = Awesome Combo
There's like one specific song in the game that's my favorite one. Where can I find the soundtrack for the game?
The music is by @SBieliayev - amazing medieval music composer who makes their music available for free
A Card Suggestion: Skip, Value: 0, Description: Your Opponent Cannot Hit For 1 Turn, Then Permantely add a +2 and another skip card, then burn this card.
I Hope You Add It!
Love your game <3
this is sooo addictive. crazy good concept for a game and definitely getting it on release i could play it for hours
there should be an infinite mode where you can just keep playing and build the best deck, and maybe a sandbox mode for testing card combinations or a card index that unlocks after "beating" the demo once so you can see any cards you might've missed
This game is aces.
Card Idea : Ninja Card
Value : 0 Blank
Ability : On Play : Choose a card in play to get +2 in value
On discard : Remove the 2 bonus value
Card Idea : +4 Uno
Value : 4 Clubs
Ability : Each Player Hit 4 card from their deck, and put it into the player's draw pile
Card idea : You Mad?Card
Value : 22 Blank
Ability : On discard : Opponent shuffle a memory card into their deck, and set the memory card to remember the You Mad?Card
XII Apocalypse
Value 0 Blank
Ability : Add a Ace of a random suit into your hand.
On a winning blackjack : Put a negative ace of clubs into the opponents Draw pile
On a opponent blackjack : Put a negative ace of spades into the Draw pile
Official Obama Card
Value : 0 Spades
Ability : Adds to your hand
On Play : Select a value from -1 to -11. Cost x-5 more chips to the value of the card
Birthday card rework : On play : Select a card to increase it's value by 1 during this encounter
I just love the memory card
Same
Holy moly, what does it do?
I thought the Calamary card was good, but your money is off the rockers.
I agree, with the card I CAN GET INFINITE ACES (A)
I won with the trap card
Proof:
I got unlucky cause i didnt get the get out of jail free card (even tho while i had the slime opponent i got the get out of jail free card with the social security card, but it never made it)
Update: how did i win without 'get out of jail free' card💀 and my trap card is hidden💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I one shot Alucard for 1152. It was 18 damage and 3 terminate the tower doubler cards. 1152 is 18 times 2^6 so I'm not sure if there's a bug or I just suck at math.
obsessed with it - can't go past alucard though lmao..
nvm i just did