Lowland Keepers
Lowland Keepers is a game made in less than 5 days for the Card Deck Jam.
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Concept
Build a team and create synergies to face ever more powerful enemies.
- Drag & drop your characters on other card to attack or interact.
- Enemies give you mana when they die. Try never to end a turn!
- Build powerful synergies and break the game.
Credits & assets
- Background and decoration (💜): rafaelmatos.itch.io/epic-rpg-world-pack-free-demo-ancient-ruins-asset-tileset
- Monsters: https://ghazi.itch.io/rpg-monsterpack
- Icons: ghazi.itch.io/fantasyiconpack
- Font family: fontenddev.com/fonts/lychee-soda/
- Font family: dafont.com/fr/pixel-operator.font
- Sounds from my previous game: twotinydice.itch.io/forward-escape-the-fold
- Me: game design, code, UI
Comments
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Cinq jours et tu nous ponds un petit bijou comme ça? Ajoute deux jours de finition et c’est prêt à mettre sur Steam!
RE; "Try never to end a turn!" — I feel like ending the turn when all enemies are stunned is a better strategy a lot of the time, to replenish mana safely instead of burning through everything while you can’t be hurt anyway. Otherwise you start a turn with bigger enemies about to attack and barely anything left to fight them. Abilities that are improved on stunned enemies alter that dynamic, though, and Taunt can really throw a wrench into your tactics if you don’t suppress it before it activates, so it’s a tricky puzzle to solve as the game progresses.
If you can get down to a single enemy, stunning it and ending turns repeatedly can let you farm blues before heading into the next fight. Though I wish we got a free recharge at the end of each stage since we already have to choose between healing and upgrades :)
Well done! I like the direction this is going. You are a good game designer.
Really cool and polished concept, I could tell immediately it'd be right up my alley.
Am I crazy or is there no way to actually play the mana draining "starting hero"He’s great as far as I’m concerned, with the right upgrades. With some of his damage options, you can basically get free kills on red enemies on top of fueling the other characters’ attacks faster. Until he gets those, however, his usefulness is more situational since you’re wasting a red on getting something else without progressing the fight.
If you mean unlocking him, the game won’t offer you new party members if you already have four. Maybe it does when one dies along the way, though; I’ve only had full wipes so far ^^’
My point is you can't win the first fight with him because he does no damage, despite being available as a starting card