Life on Cards

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Life on Cards: Make every day choices and try to keep your life stable. Navigate procedural events rendered on 52 unique handcrafted cards. Take care to balance your money, happiness, social relationships and health. Watch out for the instability cards which ruin your life despite your efforts. Good luck, you are going to need it!

really pretty aesthetics and i like how you have to really read and interpret the event to judge the outcome

for a jam game the mechanics and design is really clean and polished

(though a bit of a nitpick but the kerning has some issues haha)

@paperaeroplane555 Thanks for the feedback!

I like the aesthetic, and the card swiping animation is really clean looking. Interesting idea for the theme. Nice!

Fun little reigns-em-up. Cute art!
It's unfortunate when you get like 3 destabilized cards in a row, but I guess that's just life sometimes lol.

oh my god, this is so cool! i'm so impressed that this is made so fast. it feels so clean and polished like someone else said too. it's such a fun game and i can see it going so many places!

@spudboy Thanks! That is the inspiration of my game!
@ty Oh! Thank you very much!

Good job I really enjoyed your game; pretty innovative and funny. The main menu could look better though. Keep up the good work!

Nice and intuitive gameplay. I like the "Reigns" vibe here. The main cons is that sometime it looks too random.

Wow you made a lot of cards, good job, your game reminds me of Reigns, really cool concept

Very interesting concept. Reading the cards makes me think. My favourite card is "Do you want to post game on Ludum Dare 49?" 😄 Good job!

Very cool concept and well polished. I dont agree with some cons but thats just me, its a great take on the theme though :)

Love the graphics, fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 49 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/TOwEHY_25bQ

Great game! The art is nice and it makes for a fun little time-passer game. I would have liked it if you could display the swipe options on the left and right of the screen so its easier to play but thats a minor thing and overall i really like this game!

@jupiter-hadley Oh! Thank you very much! So cool!

I really like this one! Great little concept, a bit of shame when you get 4 negative cards in a row and then your life becomes unstable but honestly that's real life for you! Great job on it.

I loved the concept of a card/dating system. Sometimes is hard to tell whats gonna happen (like, I died after eating chocolate lol), but I guess its part of the chaos. Good job!

I like the style of the game and the graphics are very nice. Feels very polished for a jam game! The only thing I'd want is maybe a score counter of how many cards you got through before you lose.

@lychee I really think the same when i published the game. Going to implement after the jam. Thanks for the feedback!

This is like the Game of Life, but in card form. Also, many destabilizations have forced me to sell my Magic Cards! Great game, it had some entertaining life scenarios!

I'm having issues starting the game, I'm only getting a black screen.
I'll try a bit more.. If I cant start it, I will not rate, of course.

EDIT: Had to resort to Edge ☹ .. at least I could run it.
I enjoyed the art (though occasionally hard to read the cards) but Card games are not my thing.

@xparker Sorry about that, i didn't test on Edge. Going to look out to fix this. Thanks for the feedback

@lumbigui I'm assuming the issue is on my end with FF and plugins, so dont worry about it

nice but the background music seems a little too repetitive

Interesting concept! Apparently my life is unstable but what else is new XD. Good take on the theme, you definitely put a lot of work into all those cards! I do wish the music had a bit more variety, but that's just a nitpick. Overall you did a great job! Congrats on finishing your jam!

I liked trying to balance everything, the trade-offs made for a very fun game. The cards were hilarious too. Great UI, self explanatory and easy to understand. Great job!

Great game, reminds me of Reigns for mobile. Overall thought it was really good, nice simple interface and easy to pick up and understand. Only thing was feeling like you weren't working towards anything - maybe some form of high score would be good to implement.

nice graphics! it was a fun run.. hope you get to implement an end game for this and maybe we can see our previous runs 😄 good work 👍

Heya! This was a really nicely balanced game. I appreciated how many events there were, and how they affected the stats. It's a simple one, but engaging nonetheless. I would have appreciated a little more attention to sound, and perhaps a bit of a more clear tutorial on dragging the cards, tinder-style at the beginning of the game. If the player was forced to do the interaction to proceed, there's no chance they'll accidentally get into the game without learning this.

Thanks for the game!

This was a super fun game, I love how it mostly depended on oneself's choices and the variety of them! The concept was super cool and very properly pulled off with the choice and card system. The art was really good too! I loved it.
This is a really solid entry for me, I really enjoyed it 👍

Quick and easy to learn. I especially liked the novelty of the mechanics - I've never seen this kind of interface in games. :)

reminds me of reigns, very fun gameplay and I enjoyed the aesthetic!

Really nice game! Love the card's design and the twists they bring :) Really nice game!

Cool game, very original, Well done.

Cool game. I like how you twist and adapt Reign's gameplay for the theme.

Pretty cool concept, felt like tinder but instead of hot girls, you swiped bad life choices!