Jack of Spades New Worlds!
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This is a big update making Jack of Spades 3x bigger in content:
Main features in this update:
- 2 new worlds to explore! (had 1)
- Each character can now equip up to 3 items to change his attacks! Ex. Jack of Spades can deals splash damage to all enemies around, Joker can reshuffle your hand with new cards (!), etc;
- 1 new boss and 1 secret boss!
- 12 new enemies!
- Many new visual effects. Battles are much cooler!
- Every status effect now have visuals so the player can easily see what is affecting each character;
- Losing a battle takes you back to the map instead of giving you a game over, so you can retry the same battle after a defeat;
- Save game;
- The title screen now changes with your progress;
- New game+ with new blattles and stronger enemies;
- New game++ will increase enemies attacks and HP;
- Exe version! You no longer have to play it on browser if you don't want to (runs smoother too)!
Gameplay Reworks:
- You can now heal defeated allies (revives them);
- Confused enemies with no allies will skip their attacks (50% chance);
- Only characters participating in battle will level up (instead of all characters);
- Changed World 1 layout a little;
- Swapped order of cards ♠2, ♠3 and ♠4;
Card reworks:
- Wind Blast and Vacuum now affect all enemies. Damage reduced from 6 to 4 on both cards;
- Static Power now affects 3 lines instead of all enemies;
- Multi Plant damage reduced by 1. Damages neighbors (50% damage);
- Quake reworked now it deals 3 damage for each neighboring unit;
- Prow wind remade into Anti-Magic Wind (removes buffs and debuffs);
- Flood is now affected by magic defense;
- Sleeping seed now poisons enemies;
- Muncher now has lifesteal;
Card Rebalances:
- Ultra Blade damage increased to 6;
- FireBomb damage increased to 7;
- Wind Shot damage increased to 9;
- Overwhelm damage reduction increased to 4;
- Shock damage increased to 6;
- Fissure damage increased to 8;
- Boulder damage increased to 10;
- Thunder damage increased to 15;
- Metal Blade damage increased to 12;
- Flood value increased to 15;
Battle Readability (making it easier to see everything thats happening in the battle):
- When enemies don't have an available target they will look around;
- When highlighting a character, all characters HP values are shown in numbers;
- Text descriptions in battle moved to the bottom of the screen to prevent it from obstructing characters (Play and Cancel button move slghtly up);
- Healing floating text values are now printed as ♥X instead of a negative number;
- Added a board to the battle scene to make it more clear which tiles characters can stand on;
- Camera pans around the battle field at the beggining of the battle to show the board;
- Barriers have different sizes (outer barrier has priority when attacked);
- Damage text will always pop up inside the screen;
- Damage text now flinches to make it more visible;
- Moved cards down slightly (so you can click on the lower tiles);
- Character selection now shows character level (so it's easier to know which cards can be used);
- Character's description now shows their current attack and armor instead of the base values;
- Player's characters have a different sprite to show they were defeated;
- Soul Blade now has a dmg preview on the description;
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused wind blast to shoot twice if there's no enemy on the main line;
- Heal can no longer be reflected (Electrify/Static Cactus);
- Fixed Static Cactus damage reflection and Sleeping Seed's sleep only lasting 4 turns (lasts indefinetly now);
- Fixed bug if a line type spell is used with no available targets;
- Fixed summoning on occupied tiles;
- Fixed using ground targeting spells on the same click as selecting them;
- Fixed AoE targets not updating if a unit is killed/summoned on the same turn;
Next update will have a tutorial for begginers and a new game mode!
Files
Jack of Spades.zip 6.2 MB
Jul 18, 2019
JoS 18-07-19.zip Play in browser
Jul 18, 2019
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Jack of Spades
RPG + Card Game
Status | Released |
Author | BoneVolt |
Genre | Role Playing, Card Game |
Tags | 8-Bit, multicart, Music, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro, Singleplayer, Turn-based |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | Interactive tutorial, One button |
More posts
- Jack of Spades - Story and TutorialSep 14, 2019
- Update 10/01/2019 ChangelogJan 10, 2019
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