Tournament of Summoners

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About

_Tournament of Summoners_ is a turn-based card game that progressively gets harder with each stage where you fight other summoners. At the beginning of each stage you're able to purchase new cards for your deck which you then play to fight your opponent.

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Lore

As your consciousness fades away your mind is being put to a test of endurance to fear. You are one of many contestants of the _Tournament of Summoners_. As a summoner you're able to control the power of fears and curse your enemy with said fears thus damaging his psyche and securing your place at the tournament. But be careful since you're not immune to the curses yourself. Will you be able to withstand many different fears that might damage your mental possibly for ever?

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Development

- @VladImperator - engine / game coding
- @tuh - graphical assets / sound effects and music

We both are very passionate about the game and poured our hearts into it. Even though many features had to be cut out from the game since we were running out of time, we still are very proud of the final outcome. This is our first ludum dare game and we hope to make more. The game was developed on my(@VladImperator) own game engine written in C#.

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Guide

Card

- If the card is not inverted the card's power is how much damage it's gonna deal
- If the card is inverted the card's power is how much it's gonna heal you
- Card's usage cost is how much energy it will cost you to play the card
- Pay attention to the card's kind so you can chain it with other cards

Energy

- Energy acts as both health and _well_ energy to play your cards

Stage

- You advance to next stage after you beat your opponent

- There are 3 different phases:
- > Shop (orange background) - where you buy new cards
- > Play (purple background) - where you select cards for the fight phase
- > Fight (green background) - where all the cards play out

Fight

- After all the cards play out and you and your opponent are still standing the game goes into play phase again and you get 1 random card that you played back
- When you defeat your opponent you get all the cards played this duel back
- When you lose the battle you get reset to stage 1

Controls

- Left and right arrow keys - select card
- Up arrow key - buy card / pick card during play phase
- Down arrow key - invert card during play phase
- Spacebar - exit the shop / confirm a hand during play phase

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System requirements

- Vulkan 1.3 capable graphics card
- Windows x64

Disclaimer

On some systems graphical inconsistencies might appear (slightly brighter image and wonky background).

Game's executable file is `Summoner.exe`

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Update

I had to update the game since there were two minor bugs:
- Inverting and picking a card at the same time during play phase would crash the game
- Small oversight in the code caused one of the cards to not appear in the shop

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