Wordpetition, a card word game inspired by Balatro!

[holo]

added evil censorship

don’t worry, you can turn it off in the options menu.

(the playtest still has not yet been updated)

[holo]

Added bosses to the game!

I also renamed Turns Left to Turns Taken. Since the number going up while also being called Turns Left was too confusing.

Added a tooltip to the space, so that people know that it isn’t a wildcard.

I also added the ability for letters to have tooltips depending on their letter (so I could add in the space tooltip).

https://happyholo.itch.io/wordpetition/devlog/1463123/devlog-11-bosses-qol-fixes

BOSS Music: BookFace Remix - tobylane
https://pixabay.com/music/beats-bookface-remix-115827/

[holo]

I’ve been working on a couple of things for the game for the past 5 days, including:

• Boss Dialogue for when you trigger the boss (already added, it shows up on the icon when the boss triggers)

• Card Upgrades, where a specific card can permanently gain points, fire, or xFire. (points/HIKER work)

• Letter tooltips showing up when you quickly click them (it won’t be on hover since that’d be annoying).

• A Run Info screen, including a expanded version of the letter/card pile where you can drag cards around to view them (the expanded pile is already done)

• A bookmark page skipping system (partially done, I just need to add in skip rewards)

• A possible public lobby system?? Still don’t know how to set it up without steam existing, but I do want people to actually be able to play the multiplayer mode without IP/Port stuff (and having friends). It’d definitely add a lot of replay value, plus the multiplayer mode is probably the main highlight of the game.
  I’m probably going to wait until I add in hearts/multiplayer bosses before trying this.

I’m waiting on myself to actually finish these things before I make an entire devlog, but development on the game has been going well!

[phoenixdk]

@holo

waiting on myself to actually finish these things

Looking forward to trying them

[ComicallyUnfunny]

@holo

Still don’t know how to set it up without steam existing, but I do want people to actually be able to play the multiplayer mode without IP/Port stuff (and having friends). It’d definitely add a lot of replay value, plus the multiplayer mode is probably the main highlight of the game.

May I offer NodeTunnel and Talo, my two favorite plugins? Together they offer accounts, logging in, public lobbies, and p2p multiplayer. Basically everything Steam offers, and since your game isn’t even realtime, this should do the trick for free pretty much forever.

Best way to store player data for multiplayer support?

If it’s a live game and data won’t be needed after everyone leaves, try NodeTunnel. If you want to save data for individual players that persists with accounts and logging in, try Talo. I use these tools on every multiplayer game I make, and together they’ve got pretty much all the functionality one could possibly need.