New Game: Card Wars???

[mobeamer]

I'm so bad at naming my games...LOL.

Anyway was doing some playing around and made this game, took about 20 hours to build.  I'm looking for feedback on the addictiveness of it.

http://www.battleforcesonline.com/card/

It's a simple game, you get 1 weapon and 5 "action cards". You dictate which order the cards are played in.

You then battle other players. Screenshots are below. (Yes it's not "pretty" that may come later, of course I'm always looking for artistic help)

Play as a guest if you don't care to register...(there's a link)

Home Page


Attack Enemies


Win Cards

[Zeggy]

Looks cool, but I can't register as a guest.
Gives me a header already sent error.

[mobeamer]

For those that took the time to try to play as a Guest I apologize...the script had a debugging statement in it that caused it to not work.

It's been FIXED!

This is a sign of how difficult it is to keep your production and QA machines in sync.

[Zeggy]

I'm playing it, and it is a really great game!
It's simple to learn, but also very strategical.

I just have a question though, what's the difference between having a card in the Weapon slot, and one in the 5 available slots?
I found I could put a Buckler in my weapon slot and put my weapon in one of the other slots instead.

[mobeamer]

Mind you I'm still trying to figure this part out...

In my mind a buckler is an item not a weapon, I'm thinking a shield. That being the case you can add as many additional items as you want.

There really is no difference between a weapon in the slot and one in the "playing hand". I separated it visually because one of the core rules is that you can only have one weapon during a battle.

What ever card you have in the slot is the first one that will be played. All other cards are played in the same order you place them in.

My next feature is going to allow you to place bounties on other players....you specify the reward card that other players will get for defeating another player.

[beam]

Cool idea for a game, could use some work though. the battling isn't very satisfying at all.

http://www.estiah.com is another really cool tcg-ish game.

[raestlyn]

I really like the game.

Too bad the uncommon cards are hardest to get

[mobeamer]

I made a few modifications to the game, the most interesting:

Bounty: You can place a bouty on another player, you dedicate a card from your library to the next player who can beat the victim. Bounty cards are stackable and unlimited.

Battle Scene: You can now view each round of battle individually, as well as see the enemies card layout. (only while battling)

Added some pictures to the card and did some general cleanup.

www.battleforcesonline.com/card/

[Aliss]

I tryed to register to game and get this error

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare executequery() (previously declared in /home/mobeamer/public_html/card/connect.php:26) in /home/mobeamer/public_html/connect.php on line 37

And game looks interesting.

[mobeamer]

FIXED....


The devil is in the details.

[raestlyn]

Few things:
1. The battle will continue even if someone is at 0 HP, it will end when someone goes on negatives.
2. Shield durations won't stack up at all or are messed up. For example if the Heavy Shield duration ends on turn 4, and you  play another one on it both of their effects will be removed.
3. If opponents Damage is negative you will get life instead of losing it.
Btw, I really like the new animated battles

edit: Boo, you can't add more than 3 Bounties

[Aliss]

I have broken image link where showed up equiped cards + i cannot found how to equp weapon card.

Oh yed i pressed on bounty link and get this error.

SQL Error: select * from c_user inner join c_unit on c_unit.ownerID = c_user.userID where c_user.userID =

[Kimmybwoy]

It Looks Good, You Will Go Far With It:D its unique and perfect

[Zeggy]

Hey mobeamer, I read your topic on IndieGamers forum (http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=13904).

I registered but apparently I can't post anything for 48 hours, so I'll just post it here

Did any one actually feel the need to climb the rank ladder? Again I'm trying to get feedback on the addictiveness of the game.

Yeah, the game is pretty addictive and easy to play.
I think you just need to add a much larger variety of cards.

Also, the timer really reduces the game experience, since there is nothing else to do while you are waiting, excep for maybe rearranging your card order, but I already have mine perfected (which is one reason why more cards would be nice!)

I like the new bounty features too, but not the 'upgrade' feature. Looks a bit useless to me, and it's not really upgrading. Maybe you could change the effect, so they get one card back of the same kind, except if it's a weapon it gets +1 damage, if it's a spell it gets +1 effect, etc.

Just a question: the battle list only shows 20 players, but there are more in the game. What's up with that?

[mobeamer]

Thanks for the feedback Zeggy.

More cards are on the way!

I'm looking at the upgrade feature too, I don't like it as much as I originally did.

The battle rankings show the 20 people nearest you...it's a bit pointless now but when the game grows it will stop people from attacking folks way beneath their rank.

PS: I like your forum better 

[Waizujin]

Do you by chance have any ideas on making the cards more graphical in the future?

[mobeamer]

I would love to, unfortunately I'm not that great of an artists. Feel free to post a mockup of your own in this thread....If it's good I'll be sure to run with it.