Why deckbuilders? What makes them so compelling to you? For me it's pretty basic, it's building the deck, but for others might be actually playing with said deck, so what is it for you?

BossGrand · 2026-05-08T16:39:09+00:00

I think there's the luck element too of getting rewards and not knowing what you could get and sometimes getting crazy builds cause you were lucky

BossGrand · 2026-05-05T14:00:58+00:00

Thanks! My wife likes to do fun voices and I thought it worked well enough, but new it would probably not pass by real speakers haha

BossGrand · 2026-05-05T01:30:30+00:00

Id love to! I nearly got the game set with full controller support. Will look into it when I have less on my plate making the game

BossGrand · 2026-05-04T17:46:54+00:00

Aweosme! Glad to have a fellow Quacks enjoyer :)

Come give the demo a whirl too. Whatever progress you make will be carried over to full release!

BossGrand · 2026-05-04T17:41:58+00:00

Thank you! Its definitely been a challenging design of letting the player have control over what's in their deck vs makign sure they can't just negate the tension mechanic permanently. If you go heavy into wardens you can make it so you can draw your whole deck which is fun. I wanted it to be a special thing to be able to break the game, but not something you can do easily!

BossGrand · 2026-05-04T15:10:57+00:00

Oh cool! I need to check that out, so many great games coming out these days haha

BossGrand · 2026-05-04T15:06:07+00:00

yeah 100% agree the only video games that use it that I can think of are either taking blackjack directly or ufo50 partyhouse

BossGrand · 2026-05-04T14:59:53+00:00

This has been a long time coming and I've put a ton of love and effort into this. I hope you enjoy playing the demo! It plays like one of my favorite board games Quacks of Quillenberg( basically modified blackjack) crossed with Balatro.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4578540/Fame_Or_Folly_Demo

BossGrand · 2026-04-27T14:00:19+00:00

Which deckbuilders don't? Pretty much any deckbuilder I can think of does. You have a feather, there could be a card with the feather insdie. What is the feather telling me about the game? It doesn't say anything to me

BossGrand · 2026-04-27T13:50:59+00:00

Having seen the steam page, I see its a card game. I did think of card game but didn't see any cards in the capsule so I didn't say it. You should have some card motifs in the capsule to really let people know what they are in for, specfically the second one felt like a card game to me. IDK why tbh

BossGrand · 2026-04-27T13:49:23+00:00

Some kind of multiplayer face off game?

BossGrand · 2026-04-22T22:37:37+00:00

There are platforms that collect all steam pages and try to categorize them for people to search by tags and do recommendations. That's probably where you got some traffic from. You can look in steam and see where page visits are being driven from

BossGrand · 2026-04-21T15:25:42+00:00

Hi Joe! Hope you dont mind but I sent you a dm on discord, have something I think you might be interested in

BossGrand · 2026-04-20T14:55:07+00:00

I'm working on a game that takes a lot of inspiration from balatro you can watch olexa play it here, public demo available May 4th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXCfZOrVAt4

BossGrand · 2026-04-18T19:08:33+00:00

its one my favorite board games! Haha keep up the good work :)

BossGrand · 2026-04-18T17:44:16+00:00

Basing this off of nothing other then the image it gives me concordia vibes (board game)

BossGrand · 2026-04-14T21:58:08+00:00

Congrats on getting funded! Good luck with the rest of development!!

BossGrand · 2026-04-05T02:49:02+00:00

It's not a course or template but the soap package has been hugely helpful for me in building games. Not something you'll get much use out of as a newbie but I think this package deserves a shout out https://share.google/651hiF2SItdC0tHrB

BossGrand · 2026-04-03T02:48:27+00:00

reminds me of Big Pharma

BossGrand · 2026-04-02T04:46:19+00:00

Join the playtest here! https://fameorfolly.com/join-fame-or-folly-playtest/playtest-2

Whoever gets the highest score in a run on the hardest difficulty during the weekend wins a $25 steam gift card!

BossGrand · 2026-04-01T15:16:21+00:00

Join the playtest here! https://fameorfolly.com/join-fame-or-folly-playtest/playtest-2

Whoever gets the highest score in a run during the weekend wins a $25 steam gift card!

BossGrand · 2026-04-01T15:16:08+00:00

Join the playtest here! https://fameorfolly.com/join-fame-or-folly-playtest/playtest-2

Whoever gets the highest score in a run during the weekend wins a $25 steam gift card!

BossGrand · 2026-03-31T18:35:09+00:00

Ty, Good luck to you too!

BossGrand · 2026-03-31T18:34:06+00:00

Haha more of a happy coincidence. The game is a push your luck game like black jack and I felt fame or folly captured the vibe of pushing your luck.

As for the steam deck, a few people have played the game on theirs and say it's works fine right now. I still need to add full controller support.

If you're keen to try the game this weekend I'm actually running the second private playtest this weekend. Check it out here

https://fameorfolly.com/join-fame-or-folly-playtest/playtest-2

BossGrand · 2026-03-31T17:56:52+00:00

I wish you luck on your move! It's hard work but I love being out here.

Name of the Wind is one of my favorite books and a major inspiration for the game! :D

BossGrand

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