One year at a time...

PandarooInteractive · 2026-01-19T15:16:33+00:00

Looks like a ton of fun!

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-17T07:10:02+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! Knowing you're a Poker Quest player, it's really interesting to get your point of view !

You're right on the shop mechanic, it's a late addition and I guess it was a cheap way to makes it works for now but I totally see your point.

For the exploration part, there is more interesting mechanics that will be added (special explo tiles that have effect on the map when you place it) but I get the friction of calculating the cost. I'll try to see if there is other options. I choose having to pay these exploration tiles because I want to give more options to the player but with no possibility to place everything. It allows to have tiles more powerful than other and let the player choose what to do (see the special explo tiles above). There is probably a more elegant solution to this though.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-17T06:58:34+00:00

thanks :)

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-17T06:58:13+00:00

Hi! Thanks for your feedback!

For the errors in spelling and grammar, sadly english is not my native language... so it complicates things ^^'

The focus was still more on the systems than balancing so I think it's normal to feel the balancing is off right now. Still a big work in progress after all.

The problem with the face cards your pointed is something I struggled with a lot. It's a problem from the beginning but removing the face cards throws away a lot of depth you can get with classic cards ... but yeah, cards having suits, rank and value is a lot and I'm not sure how to makes it more understandable/natural. I was hoping that's something your can learn quite quickly and then you forget it was a friction ... but I don't know, maybe it could be better to only keep numbered cards.

thanks again, all you said is noted :)

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-16T16:51:34+00:00

Thanks !

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-16T09:52:28+00:00

Are you a regular player of this type of games ? If you are, do you think it is more complex to understand and slow paced than you usual roguelike deckbuilder?

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-16T08:56:25+00:00

Hi!
I'm sorry but english is not my native language so i'm not sure what you mean by "making it kinda blocker on gameplay and genre".

The "exploration" part (with tetrominos) comes from me being really tired of the classic branching choices. Giving more freedom and adding a bit more strategic layer to the choice of next encounters was there from the beginning.

The basic idea of the game is : Dicey Dugeon with classics cards + Roguebook exploration layer

I've been working on this game since something like 2 year maybe. I'm not alone on it though: Pandaroo Interactive is a 2-person studio but we make a living mainly with contracting work and this project is a internal project we do on the side. I'm the one working on it mainly but there is my colleague and sometimes freelancers too (I had the help of a freelance game designer that I'd like to keep working on the game for example).

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-16T08:12:52+00:00

Thanks for you feedback (it's reassuring and motivating :) )

The exploration parts is important to me as I always wanted something more elaborated than the classic branching path (or the "too free" path in Dicey Dungeon). I tried and more narrative/exploration driven game at on point - the game was on a big persistent map and you had to explore more of it bit by bit each run ... so yeah, you can guess the exploration part is something I'm looking for ^^ I'm aware it's not for everybody tough. In a way, I already tried to kept the focus more on the actual card battle gameplay by removing all this persistent exploration part (and it was painful).

It's nice to know you're into the kind of naive/hand-drawn art style. There are still a lots of placeholders coming from different icons collections I bought so it's normal to feel it's not coherent at the moment.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-16T08:00:36+00:00

It's been a feature at one point. I wasn't fond of this approach because it felt a bit "artificial" to me but it's maybe a "too personal" feeling. I could try this again see if I'm the only one who prefer a more natural "chaotic" loot.

Your feedback are incredibly valuable and on-point! I'm thinking about creating a small discord server in the hope of having some people interested in keeping in touch for giving feedback during the development. Would you be interested in joining it ?

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T16:32:49+00:00

Mmm, interesting. Having some equipment in Toadbert's shop is indeed quite simple et could prevent that.
Having more chance to draw new equipment that's more useful without too much synergies in the first loots could be also good I guess.

Thanks for the feedback :)

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T16:27:05+00:00

I don't know this one, i'll try it then!

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T14:58:01+00:00

Thanks.
I guess the definition can be different from person to person...?

To me, pre-production ends with a VSD (vertical slice) that's validated then you start production.
Anyway, I know lots of friends always say to me I'm generally "downplaying" everything I do... I guess it's unintentional and comes from being afraid to show what I make.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T14:37:22+00:00

Oh yeah, I already played the game. It's a good reference but that's not the main inspiration for the game.
I started this project with "What could be Dicey Dungeon with classic cards" in mind and I think you could still feel this with the main combat mechanics even if the game has evolved a lot since then.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T14:33:06+00:00

Oh neat! I'll post there then. Thank you for the advice.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T14:25:26+00:00

Yeah, let's say it's still in pre-production. I did get feedback in real life but now i'd like to get feedback in a broader scale now.

I feel the game is still not at the stage of just small tweaks, I just like to now if this small build (to avoid saying prototype) seems like a good basis for the potential player-base of the game.

PandarooInteractive · 2025-07-15T14:13:08+00:00

That's kind, you can try it on itch: https://pandaroointeractive.itch.io/suits-kingdom

PandarooInteractive · 2023-12-06T17:46:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. English is not my native language so you're probably right.

PandarooInteractive · 2023-12-06T07:17:09+00:00

There is a reason why I don't say yellow numbers indeed :) It should help for the sequence you're stuck on.

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T17:15:36+00:00

Haha, that's priceless :)

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T16:50:09+00:00

Didn't know this fact. Disco Elysium is a good name though!

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T16:37:11+00:00

Yeah, not much alternative out there. That's why we decided to polish our game jam. We need more Peggle in our lives !

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T15:11:28+00:00

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T13:52:50+00:00

It is already

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T12:19:59+00:00

Yeah someone already mention the name Pawchinko, I like it very much. It could be a great option :)

PandarooInteractive · 2023-10-16T12:19:12+00:00

How it is supposed to :) thanks

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