Smash! Smash! Destroy the West! Jangnanmon!

by pudding

co-authored: @kappajin, @micoolx, @slemmens

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.37

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.37

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.51

Welcome to True Korea's best and *only* card game, Jangnanmon! Here you will fight epic battle, engage in many victory and conquer imperial cowards in completely fair and realistic card game! The rules are simple. One player will play with a deck of 15 superior True Korean cards and the other shall be given a deck of 15 much weaker and purposely unbalanced "Crapitalism" cards. The goal is to beat the other player in combat with your deck by eliminating all of their cards. Sound easy enough, Mr. Coca-Cola or do I need to explain it again?

Stuff used that isn't ours:
* North Korean propaganda images
* Portraits of certain high-profile individuals and places
* Elton John's "Rocket Man"

HTML5 Version (may be buggy): https://pudinpopz.itch.io/smash-smash-destroy-the-west-jangnanmon

Stats
Lines of code: 1,601
Lines of dialogue: 287
Git commits: 65
Bugs: Yes

Tags: #funny, #local multiplayer

Genres: card game

Comments30

Mayuso4 Dec 2017, 20:05

The best: I didn't expect a game like that, and I say that as the best thing hahaha

The worst: That was SO MUCH text (dialog) at the begining, it almost made me quit before actually playing, glad I didn't though.

conk4 Dec 2017, 20:16

I don't know why, but I expected a warning before getting shot, literally made me jump. I liked the story and that you had to play to lose, certainly a new way to play a game! The game itself was a little confusing though (perhaps the point) but it's hard to work strategy when you're not entirely sure what the enemy has as sometimes the cards are obstructed by other HUD elements or sometimes each other.

Good polish and an interesting experience, would get shot again, good job! :grinning:

Evan Overly4 Dec 2017, 20:37

A lot of text only to get executed after the first turn.

I like the idea of forcefully loosing a card game however, it felt that the cards were a little too unbalance to make it a real challenge.

Dat ending tho

Sozey4 Dec 2017, 20:46

Very fun! It's nice to see something with an original story like this! Good job

vizitas4 Dec 2017, 20:54

I got scared shitless the first time I got shot, did not expect that at all :D .

Sintel4 Dec 2017, 21:22

Absolutely amazing!

The best game I played so far.

I didn't really know what I was doing, but the metagame/dialogue was really funny.

Sometimes at the end of a game the other party would just not play a single card for like 5 turns. Don't know if that is intended behaviour.

Bastienre44 Dec 2017, 21:25

The shot made me jump on my chair ! Very fun, I loved the storytelling. Congrats !

BenBurgh5 Dec 2017, 02:18

Really cool, great twist! I agree with Evan about the challenge thoug.

StrangerYann5 Dec 2017, 04:47

Here's my feedbacks:
from the start its really handy you can download an unzipped .exe, straightforward, nice
the cover picture at the top of this page is super pro-looking, congratulate the graphist for me if you can :D
antivirus was a pain but that wasn't a blocking issue
soon as the game actually starts, the wall of text is a bit steep IMO
I read a total of 0 text for the whole game ^^# a lot of skip
it may be a good thing - then I can rediscover the game later on because it turned out to be good

LeReveur5 Dec 2017, 06:04

I don't mind so much text, when it's helps like here to understand how to play and make the mood. However, it would be better to let the player pass the long long text when he read it at least once…
And when opponent cards are on to play, it's not possible to see their effetcs and values, that is a problem to play wise…
That said, it was the only annoying things in that game, I enjoyed playing it anyway, so good job :)

5 Dec 2017, 06:12

This game felt like it was inspired by a fever dream. I choose to believe that every decision here was made deliberately, from the writing (i liked it!) to the music (sounds randomly sequenced).

Great job!

Thorneto5 Dec 2017, 06:39

That was novels worth of text. Hilarious but maybe slightly too long.

sleepystrix5 Dec 2017, 06:50

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Shot for assuming that I, an imperialist pigdog, could assume to win Best Korean card game.
10/10 would be executed again.

FireSlash5 Dec 2017, 07:33

Oh man, we considered a card game for a while because, and I quote, "I've never seen someone do a card game in LD before".

Well, we didn't. But now I have!

My only complaint is that the intro is super long and unskippable (at least I didn't see a way to skip it).

Slemmens5 Dec 2017, 07:45

Thanks all for the feedback, I think we've learnt a very important lesson about intro length XD
Glad to see you guys like it!

puddingauthor5 Dec 2017, 08:02

Thank you for all reading this novel disguised as a video game

jsqrs5 Dec 2017, 08:09

I enjoyed the art and the text system was cool. a bit too much dialogue but I had a decent time

KappaJin5 Dec 2017, 08:18

As the man behind the wall of dialogue, I thank you all for your honest feedback and criticism. Next game, I swear I won't just write a novel 😉.

Zatherz5 Dec 2017, 08:40

This is incredible. I didn't think that the dialogue was too long, and it made me smile all the way through.

BumiBomber5 Dec 2017, 08:56

This is the funniest game in the jam so far and it was a blast just reading through the idiotic dialogue and how you will always lose anyways.

Wakka25 Dec 2017, 12:07

Cool Dialogue System and a reeally juice Drag and drop syste.

Some minor flaws:
Is there any way to skip the dialogues?
The default window size was a bit too small ( had to resize it to see all of the stats of the cards).
The AI didn’t do anything for like 5 rounds

MicoolX5 Dec 2017, 12:12

Thanks guys for feedback!!!

IllaBom6 Dec 2017, 03:25

Great game! Saw it on discord!

Check out my game if you would like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected

Bobo Games6 Dec 2017, 06:54

Hey! I enjoyed that a lot!! Really clever and interesting take on this ludum dare. suprisingly difficult to lose! Is it possible to lose "too quickly" and get shot that way? Loved the atmosphere/situation we were put in. Could definitely use a "skip" button for the second time playing.

puddingauthor6 Dec 2017, 07:25

Thanks for the feedback! There was actually a bug at one point where if you won too quickly it wouldn't register at all so you'd just be stuck playing Jangnanmon forever; fortunately that was patched out a few hours before submission.

Szekeres Szabolcs6 Dec 2017, 11:20

Too much text. But good game

Krassenstein6 Dec 2017, 12:22

Very cool game and a nice take on the "Collectible Card Game" genre. I liked that you created a brand new card game to play that requires you to lose. The only complaint on my part is the walls of text throughout the game. It's kind of hard to follow when there was so much.

Great job!!

ManBeardGames6 Dec 2017, 15:06

This was a really creative idea. Loved the witty humor. I played it a few times more since the stream last night, and wish there was an option to skip the text if you've already seen it. There is a ton of dialog in the game, which isn't always a bad thing, given the humor behind it, but being able to skip it would go a long way.

I love the different art for the cards.

One thing I mentioned on stream that I want to mention here as well is that on some turns the AI wouldn't do anything. Wasn't sure at first if that was intentional, or something else. It happened a couple of times though, one for a few turns, and another for only one turn.

PhilStrahl17 Dec 2017, 18:05

Hey I played your game in my latest video and strained my voice too much. And I am not sure I fully understand how to play the game ;) https://youtu.be/BgkQxnrr8sU