Symthesis

Symthesis

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overall: 3.86
fun: 3.74
innovation: 3.80
theme: 3.74
graphics: 3.50
audio: 3.64
mood: 3.62
A card-based puzzle game where you summon products. A little bit of Solitaire, a little bit of Doodle God, and of course a little bit of inspiration from Balatro's Jokers.

*This game has an ending screen and takes about 10 minutes to beat.*

Game best played on Windows, but if on browser use Firefox! Chrome has horrible stuttering

*No AI was used in the making of this game.*

Source Code:
* https://github.com/ollie-d/ld55

Controls:
* Mouse clicking/dragging only!

Playtesters:
* Chase
* Luna

Fonts used:
* ElderGods BB
* castpixel's curiously chunky free pixelfonts

Tools used:
* Godot 4.1.2 (gave me a lot of problems, I use 4.x for work, but will stick to 3.x for web games)
* Ableton Live 11 Suite
* Audacity
* Gimp
* Aseprite
* Git
* Butler

Sounds used for samples (recorded all during compo):
* Me chanting (I'm not a singer and apologize deeply for offending any of you)
* Blowing into bottle
* Dropping books on one another
* Ripping paper

Visual samples (photos taken during compo):
* Different pictures of my mousepad for creating noisy textures
* Gimp's pixelate and artistic pixel work great!
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