The Spectral Slinger

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The Spectral Slinger is a card game where you upgrade your cards by playing them. 

A game made in 3 days by David, Jesse, Kial, Tom, and Vince.

How to Play

Only mouse is supported. Click on a card and then click on an enemy or on the bottom button to play on yourself. Each time you play a card, you'll automatically end your turn. Click the discard button in the bottom right to end your turn and draw a new hand.

After you turn, enemy turn counters will tick down. When they reach 0, they attack.

Each of your cards have icons indicating what actions they do:

Positive powers (heal, block, draw) are always played on yourself -- even when targeting an enemy.

The top number of the card is the power level applied to all actions applied by the card. When you play a card, the numbers will rotate and you'll have a more powerful card. Clear out all of the numbers and your card will upgrade. See how maxed out you can get a few of your cards!

The initial pitch

A card battler where the cards are triangular and each corner has a number that modifies the action of the card. When played, that corner gets torn and can't be used, but once you've torn all three the card gets upgraded and corners restored. Figure out how to best apply small and big damage effects to upgrade quickly to put out massive damage.

Early on, we decided to lean on the cards-as-revolver theme and make the cards rotate automatically on use instead of allowing the player to choose the fired side. This reduces the explosion of choices each turn and was simpler to implement.