You are an archeologist(something like Indiana Jones), and you and your friend have just found a new underground thomb.
Inside it, you found a sarcophagus and a mummy inside. Suddenly, your friend picked up the knife from mummy's lash and killed you and himself after that. Now you realize that you are in a special between-world event called The Final Judgement. Normally, your heart would be set on a special scale with the Toth's feather and if it is clear it will be just as light as the feather, but there is a curst. Your friend has killed you because he was posesed by the mummy, the haunted king.You were given cards. Each card is an event of your life. Your friend chooses events for you and you choose for him. Each event had some effect on your life, it made you a better or worse person. Only you know which has done what. You got one good event, your death, and your friend got one bad, the murder. You both got magical scales and if your heart is lighter than the feather you will be placed in heaven for the weight of difference in years and afther that you will come back to the Earth. If your heart is heavier, you go to hell! You realized that if your friend comes to the Earth before you, he will be posesed again and the evil will be free. Now it's up to you to place events. When you think you're done, you can attack him and he will have only one tur to come back.The bigger difference between sum of weights is , the more time you'll need to come back and save the world. (before you play the game check this post out : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-final-judgement/explanation-of-my-my-game-rules)
Drew some cards, attacked, saved the world! Not perfectly sure how the rules went, but that didn't slow me down. UI scaling was a bit off, it was still playable though.
Hmm, I can't say I understood the rules of the game, even sfter reading your explanation post. But the setting sounds really cool. Maybe try to make a step by step explanation how to play the game with screenshots. That might help.
The story seems interesting. When a game is linked to mystical consequences, their's potential for an interesting story. But the game itself is incomprehensible. The UI is indeed small and hard to read. I didn't know what to do after drawing a card, and when I pressed pass I didn't notice anything happening. You have this nice 3D scene, but that serves only as a backdrop, which is a shame.
It seems like you thought mostly about implementing the rules and mechanics of the game, but the way those rules and mechanics are presented to the player is vital.
I can't understand how to play this game. Is a higher number card more powerful? What does attack mean and when am I supposed to attack? How do I stop the opponent's attack?
Also, choosing 32 cards at the beginning of the game was tedious. It would be better if they were chosen for you.
Really like the setting of the game. After spending some time selecting the cards, went to the game, drew 1 card, pressed attack and saved the world! Fastest world saving ever xD As I was writing this I found your post about the rules and problems of the game, so I don't need to talk about it. The UI was fine to me. If you can try to improve the card selection method (don't know how, sorry).
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Did you try to play in another resolution?
Is it supposed to be some description on the card? The words are too small I cannot tell anything on it.
It's a good try to make a new card game during this short timespan though.
No, it's not supposed to be something on the card except the number.
But the setting sounds really cool. Maybe try to make a step by step explanation how to play the game with screenshots. That might help.
It seems like you thought mostly about implementing the rules and mechanics of the game, but the way those rules and mechanics are presented to the player is vital.
Also, choosing 32 cards at the beginning of the game was tedious. It would be better if they were chosen for you.
As I was writing this I found your post about the rules and problems of the game, so I don't need to talk about it. The UI was fine to me.
If you can try to improve the card selection method (don't know how, sorry).