Music can be switched off with the button in the bottom right corner. The sound effects will still play.
The goal is to reduce the opponent's amount of followers to zero by playing quote cards and convincing their followers to join you.
A card costs karma (purple gems). Your current karma is displayed in the top left corner. Your opponents current karma is displayed in the top right corner.
At the start of every turn you and your opponent gain one karma.
A card has a color-coded type, displayed under the name of the card. This type can be: body (red), mind (blue), soul(white) or spirit (green).
Every type of card counters one other type of card. This is displayed under 'Counters' on the card. Body counters Mind, Mind counters Soul, Soul counters Spirit and Spirit counters Body.
If you counter your opponents card with one of yours, you gain followers from your opponent. Most will go to you, while a few will go to the neutral camp. If your opponent counters you with his card, the same will happen, but for him. If neither of you counter each other, no changes will occur.
Some cards have special effects. These special effects only happen when countering with a card, unless otherwise stated on the card. These effects can range from doubling the amount of followers you get to gaining followers from the neutral camp.
Some cards also have effects with which you gain extra karma. These effects always happen regardless of countering, even if that is not explicitly stated on the card. Use this to your advantage.
If you can't or don't want to play a card, you can use the big purple button in the left bottom corner to play the meditate effect. The meditate effect costs no karma, but gains you one extra karma in addition to the karma you always gain at the start of your turn. The drawback of the meditate effect is that it is countered by every other type of card, so use it wisely and with caution.
Every now and then a random event happens. Be surprised!
And most of all: have fun!
[END TUTORIAL]
Hello,
Thank you for visiting our game.
Our game is about rising to the top as a guru by battling other gurus in a quote contest. The game is essentially a card game where the objective is to defeat all the gurus. A guru is defeated by reducing his amount of followers to zero.
We hope you enjoy our game! And if you like it, please consider sharing it.
Tom and Luca
If you find any technical errors or have suggestions for the game, please let us know through the comments.
[F.A.Q.]
The game does not work! - Unfortunately our game does not work on Internet Explorer. It should work fine on both FireFox and Chrome. If you find any other technical errors, please let us know through the comments.
How big is your team? - We are with two: Tom and Luca, both programmers.
How much time did this take? - We both worked for about 45 hours on this game. We built it almost from scratch.
Why aren't you competing in the audio category? - The music loop you hear in the game is part of a composition that is free to use for freeware. We did not make it ourselves, so we chose not to compete in the audio category.
Why is there no tutorial or help screen? - When we were finishing up the game it was already deep into the night. We decided to focus on making the game playable first. Unfortunately the rules do not permit us to change the current version of the game to include a tutorial.
The game seems unbalanced! - We did our best in the 72 hours we had, but it's terribly difficult to build and balance a card game in that time frame. We focused on getting it working first and balancing second.
The battles take a long time! - As stated in the above answer we focused on building the game first. Battle time is a part of the balance of the game. We balanced it as best we could, but were unable to totally nail it down in 72 hours.
wow this game is awesome !! I spent half an hour playing it, it's fun, well polished, graphics are basic pixel art but really efficient in this type of game. Congratulations ! :D
It's the first card game I have ever found on the LD database (of course there could be a thousand others).
I loved the Random Event: sometimes a life saver, sometimes a killer, sometimes saves everything from stalemate. Simple, yet great feature!
Loved, of course, the humor and the whole quote yelling at each round.
While I did beat the game, I didn't always figure out what happened (i.e. why sometimes I didn't get or lost followers after some specific action, etc.), but it's perfectly fine. You did a great job in the short time span we had :D
Loved the concept of the game, it's both hilarious and fresh! Followers commenting as they change sides are the best, we had a great time playing it. Wish the combat system had a bit more depth, but for a ludum dare project it feels more than enough. Presentation wise it's varied and dynamic, wish you guys keep working on the project. The world needs less quotes and more games making smart fun of them. Great work!
Love the quotes, graphics, and UI. Very funny! The mechanic was a bit confusing at first, but really easy to pick up quickly. Its definitely challenging and can sometimes take a while, but I was entertained and now I need to unlock Bob Ross! Seriously great game! Good job!
Very stylish and original! Sounds got a bit repetitive but the game has a lot of soul (heh) and character. Great artwork, concept, and gameplay. Well-done! Good luck :)
Wow! This is a surprisingly well fleshed out card game! I'm impressed! I feel like some of the nitty gritty details were a little poorly explained, but I had a good time overall building up karma and countering my opponent's cards. Overall, a very interesting, funny, and enjoyable game!
I really enjoyed the wittiness in this game, the idea of gaining and loosing followers to people is really cool
I had two main criticisms: 1. I didnt quite understand why I couldn't choose certain cards sometimes 2. There only seemed to be one correct card to every round and sometimes you couldn't pick that card
These problems though I feel would be ironed out given more time. Solid idea dude!
Fantastic work! Played for a good hour. some bugs, there are neutral people drawn even it the count is zero also a bit funky when the same card is present twice in your hand ( it shakes) Great game!
Really cool concept for a card game. Karma pool worked pretty well! Sometimes the randomness of the cards would be a little tough to get a counter but overall great execution.
Perfect five here, I was smiling the whole time I played the games. The idea is brilliantly executed, quotes are hilarious and visuals were really cool, too.
Really cool game, I got stuck in a situation VS gandalf where I no matter what cards were chosen neither of us could gain or lose followers, and random events never occured :( Restarting fixed this and it was perfect, I had to restart though.
This is a really well-made card game, it's surprisingly well balanced. Not to mention I love the gurus and their references, the dialogue can be really funny sometimes. I cannot put this game down...uh stop playing I mean.
It seems like the strategy is to play cards that counter? Seemed to get me through pretty easily. That may be the first thing to balance/tweak if you keep working on it.
Great job, played all the battles to the end with 130 points - although I still did not understand the extent to which I actually gained followers and had to turn off the audio loop :P Anyway - overall a solid game.
This game was really fun, great concept! I got stuck on Arnold Schwarzenegger though, I wasn't getting random events and none of my cards or his were having any effect on our guys. It looks and sounds great!
Seriously though, this is awesome. I just wish you didn't start over when you died! Only other issue is that the battles are a bit tedious, but otherwise this is great. Nice work.
Wow, just brilliant stuff. Nails absolutely everything. Only criticism I have is that the actual gameplay itself doesn't seem that deep, and the communication of why and how followers join you is a little off. Really innovative concept though and the theme is excellent.
Great job!
K
kaype18 Dec 2015, 13:41
Damn, lots of polish on this one.
Also to make stuff look more pixel-y you might wanna filter your textures with nearest neighbor.
This game is pretty great-- this and "No Hobo" are the funniest game I've played thus far but this one isnt laugh out loud funny, its a smarter kinda funny.
This may be splitting hairs because there definitely is a learning curve and a strategy to this game but sometimes I feel like the best strategy is simply to always counter if you can and meditate if you can't and none of the conditionals in the card descriptions are in your favor. This isn't to say that I never had a moment where I was torn between which card to choose because there were times where that happened but it felt rare. Maybe I was misunderstanding the main mechanics, I don't know. Either way, with some slight tweaking this game is nearly a finished product.
Lacking in terms of devotion to the jam theme. Loved the game though. Would be fun as proper card/deck building game. Though would have preferred for the game to take turns at who shows card first. Was too easy to manage hand to fit all purposes.
Although the gameplay was a bit tedious (as I was mostly presenting whatever countering card at that moment), but overall it's very well made. Congrats!
Really refreshing seeing a card game on here! As someone who likes board games, I think this is extra cool. Very polished as well - progression, great art and music, and lots of humor as well. Props all around!
In terms of things I'd like to see, I can't strategize much in this game beyond managing my karma so I can have a good counter. Otherwise with a 3 card hard I'm just waiting to top-deck a good card. Also, maybe give the cards symbols as well as colors, so you can place on each card what counters which in a more readable way? Anyway great job!
Great stuff ^^ I really like strategy games and don't see enough in LD. Good and quite funny too. Doesn't really relate to the theme but, well, themes are just to give inspiration anyway - if you're already inspired I say go with it.
Constructive criticism: there is maybe not enough feedback for "not enough karma to use card" so I had trouble at the beginning figuring out how to play (didn't have enough karma to play any cards). Also as you had is central and your character is left it is not immediately apparent whose hand in whose.
Lovely game! I'll probably need to come back and play this again just for fun, since I couldn't give it a massive amount of time right now. The graphics are professional, the mechanics are very easy to learn, and the advice spouted by the gurus is absolutely hilarious. Just plain fun.
My only nitpick is that your success or failure depended a lot on the random appearance of the cards, but then, that's kind of hard to avoid in a game like this.
One of the funniest and sleekest LD entries I've played. Hope you score high.
Nice entry! Had to click a lot however, would have bee nice if the opponents screens changed by them self after some time. Nice art and i liked the tune :)
very good job. liked the art, especially the followers design. from my perspective even tho i got confused in first few clicks, you made enough visual cues to get into mechanics even without tutorial. i think you did very good job in 72h.
Impressive scope for a jam! An interesting strategy game with great graphics, nice humor, and pretty balanced systems. Great user interface with the cards, as well.
If I had to pick one tiny nitpick, I think the short music clip that was cycling was eventually a bit too much given how long I could sit and play for.
I was really enjoying the game but when I got to Arnold it seemed to break, it was impossible for either of us to gain or lose followers, rendering the game both unwinnable and unloseable
Had so much fun with this one, only got a bug on the final level (cards weren't doing anything anymore). Else, it's a really awesome game, very well done !
Great art. Very polished. I didn't think the music matched the theme entirely, but that made it kinda funny. The gameplay wasn't my cup of tea, but I still enjoyed all the hard work put into it. I have never played a game like this in a game jam before.
Once you get the hang of it it becomes quite fun. I like that strategies emerge over time and I found myself really considering what to do next, always with the feeling of having multiple options. Made it past Gondolf and Schwarznator :)
Wow. Great job building this. Very impressive for such a short time. Took my son and I a little bit of time to figure it out, but that was actually part of the fun for us. Congrats on a fun game.
Losing all progress after being defeated by the third opponent made me ragequit. The game is already a bit repetitive as is, and making it more repetitive by forcing the player to redo earlier stages was annoying, especially so in a Ludum Dare game.
Glad I decided to play a few more games. I thought this was pretty creative and fun. I can't quite believe its right that it should be possible to beat that final boss though :P
This was absolutely amazing to play from start to finish. AI was completely relentless but beatable (although it's a bit annoying when you and have to start over again) and the cards seems pretty well balanced (although there should really be an option to discard a card so you don't end up having a dead hand). Also the quotes from the gurus were hilariously accurate.
It's really fun and I like the idea. I appreciate the hard work on the little details like the sound effects and animated backgrounds. The only thing I can really complain about it is that it takes forever to pick up. The instructions are VERY long and hard to get through. I think that maybe the first fight should have been either a lot easier or it should have guided you through everything you can do (or both). Great job!
Really cool game. Impressive design and balance. The quotes were often funny. Art and graphics were also great. Unfortunately I got stuck on the gandalf level. Followers didn't change regardless of cards being played.
Pretty funny, and maybe reminds us not to take sprituality too seriously, even though I myself am into that sort of thing. Can tell you had a lot of fun making this and hope to see more in the future :)
Really lovely graphics, neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/S5oK4fsls3Q
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Simple, but engaging enough mechanics and the theming is great.
Gets a bit repetitive though.
I loved the Random Event: sometimes a life saver, sometimes a killer, sometimes saves everything from stalemate. Simple, yet great feature!
Loved, of course, the humor and the whole quote yelling at each round.
While I did beat the game, I didn't always figure out what happened (i.e. why sometimes I didn't get or lost followers after some specific action, etc.), but it's perfectly fine. You did a great job in the short time span we had :D
Congratulations!
Presentation wise it's varied and dynamic, wish you guys keep working on the project. The world needs less quotes and more games making smart fun of them. Great work!
I had two main criticisms:
1. I didnt quite understand why I couldn't choose certain cards sometimes
2. There only seemed to be one correct card to every round and sometimes you couldn't pick that card
These problems though I feel would be ironed out given more time. Solid idea dude!
some bugs, there are neutral people drawn even it the count is zero
also a bit funky when the same card is present twice in your hand ( it shakes)
Great game!
Was fun even if the battles were a little long.
Amazing job! :D
Restarting fixed this and it was perfect, I had to restart though.
Heheh!! The battles take a while to complete... maybe a way to make them a little bit more faster somehow! :)
Not to mention I love the gurus and their references, the dialogue can be really funny sometimes. I cannot put this game down...uh stop playing I mean.
Pretty different from all the action games I played so far.
Good job :)
The simple pixel art graphics go surprisingly well with the bouncy tweening motion you used a lot. Nice work.
Loved te art and the mechanics! Well done!
It seems like the strategy is to play cards that counter? Seemed to get me through pretty easily. That may be the first thing to balance/tweak if you keep working on it.
Pixel arts,
God game,
Card game,
Funny lines
The quotes were and the follower's lines when they changed gurus were very amusing, I enjoyed Gondolf the most ^_^
Seriously though, this is awesome. I just wish you didn't start over when you died! Only other issue is that the battles are a bit tedious, but otherwise this is great. Nice work.
Great job!
Also to make stuff look more pixel-y you might wanna filter your textures with nearest neighbor.
Good game.
This may be splitting hairs because there definitely is a learning curve and a strategy to this game but sometimes I feel like the best strategy is simply to always counter if you can and meditate if you can't and none of the conditionals in the card descriptions are in your favor. This isn't to say that I never had a moment where I was torn between which card to choose because there were times where that happened but it felt rare. Maybe I was misunderstanding the main mechanics, I don't know. Either way, with some slight tweaking this game is nearly a finished product.
You are a Pro TomenLuca, congrats.
But this is a very cool and very polished game!!
Awesome job
The quotes were funny, enjoyed them a lot.
In terms of things I'd like to see, I can't strategize much in this game beyond managing my karma so I can have a good counter. Otherwise with a 3 card hard I'm just waiting to top-deck a good card. Also, maybe give the cards symbols as well as colors, so you can place on each card what counters which in a more readable way? Anyway great job!
This was excellent, very effective use of simple graphics, very slick UI and simple but fun gameplay!
Constructive criticism: there is maybe not enough feedback for "not enough karma to use card" so I had trouble at the beginning figuring out how to play (didn't have enough karma to play any cards). Also as you had is central and your character is left it is not immediately apparent whose hand in whose.
My only nitpick is that your success or failure depended a lot on the random appearance of the cards, but then, that's kind of hard to avoid in a game like this.
One of the funniest and sleekest LD entries I've played. Hope you score high.
Great job!
It took me a good time playing and made me laugh so much!
I've beaten Galdalfo and Arnold Schwarzenator...
Congratulations!
If I had to pick one tiny nitpick, I think the short music clip that was cycling was eventually a bit too much given how long I could sit and play for.
Made it past Gondolf and Schwarznator :)
Nice aesthetic and lots of content though.