Rise of the Pawn
Game uses mouse controls only.
Move through the path of 100 playing cards with your chess pieces to score points and beat the target for each round.
To make a move, drag one of two chess pieces from the cranes at the bottom of the screen. Your possible moves will highlight and offer score previews on hover.
Each move to a larger card of the same suit as your current card gains the difference in points.
Gain Mult by performing combos of valid scoring moves.
Moving to an Ace doesn't gain Points or Mult but does refresh your climb through the ranks without breaking your combo streak.
You can also change your current suit without breaking your combo streak by moving to a card of the same rank in a different suit.
When your combo ends, your Points and your Mult are multipled together and added to your Score.
As you move along the card path 10 random cards will be shredded and if you beat the Round's Target, you'll choose one of two booster pack of 10 new cards to replace them.
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Tightly designed mechanics, plays very well. Could stand to up the difficulty a ton though, I mean...
Thanks for playing. Nice combo ;)
We are currently working on some major updates that will include better balancing.
My best combo was 100,000!
And glad to hear it--of course no one has time to fiddle with balance during the jam, that's totally a post-jam thing.
Love this, it's incredible that it got to be this polished in only ten days. Can't see it being super replayable without some extra mechanics but there's definitely potential in here to make a full on commercial release, should you want to do it. I'm really amazed with all the ideas, content and polish that you made in so little time
Thanks for the play and kind feedback, we are working on some more mechanics and features for better replayability, cheers :)
very fun, and a cool combo of games! the horizontal boost relic seems much much more powerful than the other ones, and some sort of remaining cards viewer during a round would be nice. maybe even just # of the suit offscreen to keep it simple?
Thanks for the suggestions. The game will go through some more balancing and looking to also implement some more QOL features too.
Also a cool relic might be like times or plus something if you use corresponding piece with the card (queen on queen card king on king card)Cool idea. We will be looking for ways to include synergies like that in the game:)
If you use a wild ace it resets your streak when it shouldn't
Thanks for letting us know. The wild relic is still a bit glitchy so will definitely address that in the next update.
Same when aces are twos
Just lost a run to this
Fun, but needs an ending, and perhaps to be a bit quicker or have a save feature or something.
Thanks for the feedback, great suggestions!
please increase the initial score scaling a bit? if you can keep a streak, you can easily reach the target in like the first 3-6 moves
Thanks for playing and the feedback. Balancing the game is something we will look into for the next update. Cheers :)
what is this?!