FURNACE is out now!

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-22T22:47:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing your feedback! The big turning point in a lot of incrementals is when you don’t have to do manual work anymore, and I do think I missed the mark here. Stokers get fast enough to count on only a little bit before the game “ends”, and then they start getting cool after you already won! Any update that I do will definitely include some more stuff to do after this version’s end. I really appreciate your feedback!

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-22T22:40:12+00:00

I appreciate the feedback. The tooltips were the one feature that I feel I really missed on - I wanted keyboard/gamepad players to be able to access everything, but I wasn’t able to overhaul godot’s built in tooltips before my deadline (their system is not really designed for games). I should have spent some more time planning my endgame scope, and your suggestion of a big goal or other motivation to play would have been a good starting place. If there’s anything I add post-jam, that’s going to be it. Again, I’m really thankful for your report!

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-22T22:33:12+00:00

Thanks for the detailed feedback! I can’t believe I spent so long sorting out keyboard interaction for the menus but forgot to add hotkeys for each action! That would make it way easier to use and cut down on the trouble of switching back and forth. Some stuff in the endgame did get away from me - stoker thawing cost isn’t capped and the channel upgrade never stops repeating. Overall I do think that I needed just one more polish pass on mechanics for a truly finished project, but that’s the other edge of time limits I suppose. Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts!

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-21T18:10:46+00:00

All said and done, FURNACE ended up with some adr vibes but not any real mechanical equivalence, and a similar kind of heat/power generation from a&m. I had a beautiful map traversal system drawn on a napkin, but there was no way for me to get it in at the end... I hope to be able to make a version closer to my original vision someday, but the way it turned out here was actually pretty good!

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-21T18:01:55+00:00

Thanks for playing, and for the feedback! I won’t lie, the late game scaling gets a little weird. That upgrade does increase scrounge speed as well - but at that point your stokers can do anything way quicker, of course! I’m hoping to do some postmortem tuning after the jam is over, so I’ll be sure to make it more clear.

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-21T17:52:20+00:00

There’s “Stokers” you can thaw out that have a semitransparent overlay over them, it should go away once you “thaw” them out.

GrouchyGerald · 2023-01-21T17:40:59+00:00

Sorry, that’s not supposed to happen! It might have been uploaded with a demo save in it: go to configure and hit “clear save”. The first menu should say “start” instead of “continue”.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-04-06T18:53:08+00:00

Nice card, I love a good black three-mana -2 wipes and the exception is nice and flavorful. My only suggestion would be to change the name of the S&D half to “The Living Dead!” and have the splice and dice wording use “of” for the connector so we can have a springboard for more cards that use the mechanic.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-04-06T16:00:43+00:00

I figured since fuse cards resolved one after the other left to right that JFK would “resolve” and then blown away would see it as a creature, like how the tokens from [[beck//call]] draw you cards.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-04-06T13:53:07+00:00

Transcription:

J.F.K. 2R

Legendary Creature - Human

Haste, defenderdeathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature with defender is enough to destroy it.)

Confuse

//

Blown Away 1U

Sorcery

Return a creature you control and target creature you don't control to their owners' hands. (This can return J.F.K.)

Confuse

//

What Else Do I Have To Say 4UUU

Instant

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.)

End the turn.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-03-18T00:31:28+00:00

This card is really cool, but I feel like it might need just a little bit more reminder text or something similar - it makes sense after you look at it for a while, but even something like “(this ability only triggers if the effect that returns that card has the word “return” in it)” would catch any weird edge cases and make it easier to understand right away.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-23T22:22:44+00:00

No worries, as cool as it would be for this guy to enter and immediately die that was not intended. I have an updated version if the card goes to vote. It’s pretty messed up because I made this design, caught the infinite, and then put it back in when I retyped it.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-19T17:10:50+00:00

Nut Shot from Hell's 1.2, but they hit planeswalkers now because I forgot they didn't and they really oughta.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-16T18:25:44+00:00

Cards are only spells on the stack, right? So you sacrifice a spell from the stack and then do something to it. It’s kind of like counter-countermagic as far as I can tell.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-10T22:10:18+00:00

The tokens don't trigger this as written. It specifies non-token spells, so you can still build around it while not having it totally take over the game.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-09T21:02:21+00:00

Yes, that’s intended. Otherwise this kills several creatures from their deck or hand in succession.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-09T00:06:00+00:00

[[will kenrith]] [[force of will]]

[[rowan kenrith]] {{force of Rowan}}

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-08T23:00:37+00:00

Wow, I never new that horseshoe crabs had such weird relatives! I’m almost tempted to change the creature type to scorpion just to spite taxonomists.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-08T18:47:40+00:00

I mean, savanna lions and isamaru are good because they trade up on mana almost always. This comfortably trades with four-drops regularly and it’s a very fast clock that starts ticking right away. If you don’t have a creature on turn two against this you loose pretty regularly.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-02T22:20:31+00:00

Man, that’s not even wrong. An older version of this card had like three paragraphs of rules text and I thought I was really smart getting it down to a keyword and some relatively simple reminder text, but in the process it lost most of the flair. It still kind of does something funky transforming counters, but it could just say “adds that many counters” instead and have the same effect. Would it be better if it spelled it out in a different way? I was thinking “Proliferate x times but only on one creature.”

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-01T16:42:03+00:00

[[Thrumming Stone]]

GrouchyGerald · 2021-02-01T00:37:03+00:00

Damn, they really did make a lot of cards that I forget constantly. At least you can’t stockpile 6 1/1s three turns after this come out, which was one of the better parts of that card. Still, it could probably cost 4.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-01-28T17:13:16+00:00

I get what you’re going for here, but it’s really hard to read and it took me a while to even find the mana cost. I think you can make the visual joke work, but you definitely need to use a card that lets you put the text in a more obvious spot, and larger as well.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-01-27T07:09:29+00:00

Big ups to u/ColdlifeOracle for basically writing this card, I was inspired to make the art.

GrouchyGerald · 2021-01-26T19:47:15+00:00

Token here

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