The Gambling Wizard
The Gambling Wizard was made in 2+2+2 Hours for Trijam 222!!! The theme I chose was "You don't stand a chance." When I initially read this theme, the words "Stand" and "Chance" stood out to me. The first thing that popped into my head was Black Jack!!
The Gambling wizard is a simple top down shooter game, but with a twist!! Before you begin the game there is a "Draw Phase." The draw phase essentially plays like a game of Black Jack, but each card that you draw will either be a buff or a debuff on your characters stats. Its possible to draw up to five cards. You can choose to either "hit" or "stay." If you hit, you flip over the next card and receive whatever buff or debuff is on the card. If you decide to stay, you start the battle with whatever stat modifiers you've already turned over.
What kind of player will you be? Will you be a risk taker? Someone who says: "I'll never stand when there's a chance for a cool new buff!!!"? (See what I did with the theme there? ) or will you be the type of player who likes to play it safe, in order to avoid any nasty debuffs? Find out by gambling with your stats in The Gambling Wizard!!!
How to play:
WASD to move
Point and click to shoot magic
Defeat all of the enemies in the map to win!
Everything in this game was made by me in under six hours. Enjoy!!! <3
Made a lil post jam vid discussing some of the design behind the game. Check it out here!!!
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you should make an expanded version
Amazing
Neat idea! It plays well even if I wish you could just hold the shoot button. The buffs are interesting but it feels closer to a random roll rather than the push your luck mechanic of Black Jack. Great job though!
thanks!! Yeah I def feel like the black jack mechanic has a lot of potential, although I don’t feel like I had enough time to implement it as well as I would like. I may try making a full version to further explore the mechanic!!
cool game
tysm!! <3