Use your deck of tiles to build a path covering all the lands spreading the good word while also pillaging some rewards as additions to your deck or sometimes even blessing you with some powerful abilities.

The game was made for js13k where the goal is to make a game in JavaScript and make it fully fit in 13 kilobytes or less.

Updated 1 hour ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(199 total ratings)
Authoranttihaavikko
GenrePuzzle, Card Game
TagsDeck Building, Mouse only, Touch-Friendly

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Oh no, my run was ended by a boss cross spawning on a sacrificial spot lol

Lol, casting Clay actually procced the boss into the next stage but didn't move the cross... This is getting ridiculous lmfao

Right right. More stuff to add to the soon upcoming patch. Thanks for letting me know.

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very fun mechanics ! thanks

small bug? report : after using Jewel Infusion (adding a random permanent gem) to the starting tile, it stays not only for the next levels but also for the next replays. not sure if it supposed to be that "permanent" :)

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Thanks! Yeah it's not supposed all that permanent. To be honest, didn't even think about how it should/would work with the starting tile. I'll fix it in the upcoming patch (that I'm already working on). Here is a super secret sneak peek gif, no one else can see this right 😜


How am I meant to get this cross? haha :P 

Oopsie! 😅 Did the boss destroy that tile? I guess it doesn't get marked as off limits for cross 🤔

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Managed to replicate this and it's fixed on the just released 1.3.0 version. Thanks for reporting!

I played this before the really cool updates, but I still got to experience how awesome this game is! It was a really fun lil experience, hope to see more from you :D

Cool! So that was the original version, where did you even find it? Was it on the js13k site?

I think this may be a bug? I'm in a boss fight and had to built myself into this position due to bad tiles at the time. I think the boss is meant to realise I have no path available and hurt me (plus reset the tiles)?

Yeah, seems so. See you got SIN, did it already trigger there or earlier on that level? And I guess it's the second encounter with the boss, did it already break some tiles?

Yeah, I've got SIN. It didn't trigger that round I don't believe and the boss also hadn't broken any tiles yet. It is the second boss encounter.

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a small bug I've found
if you use the khan to to make blank tiles with the open chests with blank tiles as you die to a heretic, you can start off your game with more tiles than you'd usually have

Thanks! So the chest picks remain for the next run?

yes

I would totally buy this off of the playstore

very fun game!!I get a high score on it

cool and hard

Hey! This game is dope! I write a blog about indie games and would love to interview you!

I got to the score of 2,875 before dyin

This is really good!

Good game. I have a small suggestion: when I got a sacrifice spot, after sacrificing a card, then place is destroyed so I can not place a card on it, which leads to some path to become a dead end. I suggest not destroying the place after sacrificing.

id love to have a apk version of this

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there are 12 digits in my score and the game is now frozen qwq

now am wondering on what strat to use to not break the game

Did it freeze or lock up? Ie. was the game still running with the animations still playing but you just couldn't do anything? There is some case where player is holding a card (I think) and it somehow disappears ending up in a stuck state. I haven't been able to reproduce it though. If you remember any more details how you ended up like that, they'd be welcome.

I think it's the "freely revisit" gems that cause the game to hang - like allowing it to revisit squares gives it too many possible paths. If I let it sit, it would eventually finish calculating and execute the move, sometimes 10 minutes later(!) This is on a 2016 laptop though, YMMV!

I tried playing without accepting any of those gems, and it worked perfectly. I got into the trillions without a single freeze.

Thanks for a fun, weird, chaotic game :D

Major issues in gameplay I can see from my little playthrough:

A: Heretic chests can spawn anywhere, which leads to issues when say, a random level forces you to step past a heretic chest on your first move.

B: Sacrifice tiles need some kind of algorithm, I lost half my health in a promising run because one spawned on the SINGLE TILE connecting the two halves of a level, making it impossible.

C: When Heretic chests are opened, heretics can, despite having an entire open board, spawn more or less anywhere they want, which is an issue as more than once they've spawned by some weird random chance in places where they just block off most of the board before I can do anything about it.

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Thanks for the feedback! ❤️

B: Yeah those definitely need some work as their drawback is (or can be if unlucky) very dangerous. I've been thinking of either only allowing them to spawn on edges of the map or making them not destroy the tile after use.

C: The heretics do not spawn randomly but on the space where you open the heretic chest after you've moved away from them. Unless of course you've come across some weird unknown glitch where they break this rule.

Got to a score of ~240,000,000 before the game crashed.  

Building combos is a lot of fun.

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Would also be cool if it was Pirate themed and you were putting together pieces of a treasure map and maybe certain pieces could just have the skull and cross bones which is death and game over

Can you get this on an IPhone this game is awesome

If you go to this page on iPhone and click "Run Game" it should allow you to play. I tried it on Safari and OperaGX and it works on both. You can sort of keep the tab open to play in areas that you don't have internet access in. I hope itch makes an app that lets you cache and store games for mobile offline play. 

that is genius

I love the mechanics of the game. I'm trying to open an indie studio with some new ideas, would you be interested in discussing together?

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Hi, I am very interested in this game and I want to show it in a game showcase I am going to curate on Jan 5th at Wonderville NYC! The show is named "Elemental Chaos" and I would like to take a lot of photos and send them to you after, or if you are in NYC, welcome to come!

Please let me know if you would be comfortable showing your game. Thank you very much.

Yeah, of course, sounds neat! Won't be able to come visit as I'm basically on the opposite side of the globe but photos from the event will be welcome.

Lol cool! We will definitely send you the photos afterward. Could we have your contact address?(email/ins/twitter is all good😃) We are thinking of making a zine for the show and would like to include the designer’s view or anything you like in it. If you don’t want to talk about it, we also have a recommendation paragraph of the game and we would love you to check!

You can reach me best by email on antti.haavikko@gmail.com or my twitter is on my profile too. Don't have any ideas on what could be included in the zine so sure do hit me up with that recommendation too. 👍

Had lots of fun! Great idea

grunt protagonist grunt protagonist

Great game !! Could be expanded to make a very fun game ;)

lovely game! great concept & so simple (=

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crash when I peek "can re-walk in pink dot" :'D
path finding go craizy at this point x')
edit: maybe it can be a solution to implément a security to undo last input if the input make a path processing to long, like over 20secondes (or a shorter way).

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hello, I really like the game :D
Also I found a little bug, when a run is lost (stuck by an erethic) when all map is destroy, the player can place a last tuile, and if it's one who open chest, the screen of "choosing item" stay after the next run start (so I begun a second run with two gemme free)

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I love the way the game is evolving! I got stuck at some point due to the time it takes for every turn (I guess because of the calculations necessary to get the best path). I couldn't even finish the game, so I made a screenshot for proof haha.

I really like this game! I'll try to get such a high score without it crashing the tab haha. Congrats!

Game is pretty fun. It only needs a few adjustments visually but overall, it's great.

What sort of adjustments? I could add them to the list for the next version if they're within my artistic capabilities... 😎

These will just be my visual suggestions or bugs I picked up.

The movements relies a lot of heavy shakes, maybe tone it down a bit or create a setting for it to be modified. 

There are some effects I saw, but maybe show tiny unique effects on the different paths to show activation. Just give it a bit more spark.

The surroundings are repetitive and becomes easily plain. It's something I don't mind, but it could make the game boring overtime. Adding simple things such as flowers or rocks would make a big difference.  

I will not suggest this if the game is meant to be basic and simple, but random events for variety and change. For example, season change.

There is also a bug I found with the changing of name. I clicked on Change Names, then the button disappears and a BRRRRRRR sound happens. I was not able to type anything or change anything (Windows on app). 

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The more I play the worse I get...

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love it.

at 140,000,000 points the rewards cover half the screen.

at that point it crashed (played on web).

This is a really clever and lovely little game

For some reason the rewards don't work when you play this on mobile

Fixed! Thanks for pointing it out.

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Absolutely love the game! Maybe I've gotten a little too into it.. I'll enjoy my top spot while it lasts; I'm certain someone's been cooking up a better score already lol

The heretics are a great addition, but I do think the end-game gets too easy still. Once you can get the powers of pink kills heretics, blue phases through heretics, and pink=blue, heretics become little issue. And if you get pink/blue=yellow=orange as well then heretics can be almost completely ignored. At that point, it actually becomes almost impossible to reach a game over unless you do so intentionally (I spent 20+ levels losing as fast as I could to submit my high score just because I needed to restart my computer; it could've gone forever) 

And here are some bugs/quirks to share:


  • The screen gets a little crowded. It can be hard to see the leftmost tiles in your hand and what chests are on the bottom or left of the screen.
  • At this point in the game I had just got the power to freely revisit yellow tiles, and my game immediately began to lag severely. Moving or placing tiles ran fine, but once the tile was placed it would freeze up for nearly a full minute, lag severely with the character's movement, then freeze up again when trying to load the rewards. Before getting that power, the game ran perfectly fine with no lag (and I did not have any other "revisit" powers before that one). I placed only 6 more tiles after this screenshot before it ultimately crashed. It's the first time I experienced any lag playing the game, and because I don't usually get the "revisit" rewards I might assume those are the issue.
  • The "blank spots" in the powerups are just misplaced icons. You can see they all stack up in the same spot between the first and second row. It happens when collecting the reward.
  • Sometimes when opening multiple chests at once, the reward screen will briefly show the power reward screen before popping up the tile reward screen (or vice versa). It still lets you claim the appropriate amount of rewards from whichever screen shows up second.
    • **EDIT: It happens more consistently when opening multiple chests at different spots on the same turn. By placing a tile by a chest that is unreachable (due to a heretic), having your hand re-rolled, then placing a tile next to another chest that causes you to pass the first chest too. 
  • Having more than 8 rewards to choose from results in the rewards going past the edge of the screen, and the ones on the ends become unelectable once pushed off screen. 
  • When highlighting a reward option on the left side of the screen, it will show the information for whichever power is in the grid behind it instead.

Cool! Thanks for the detailed feedback and bug report. ❤️ I’ll be sure to try to tackle those for the next version and cook up something more challenging to prevent the end game of getting stagnant. 

Publish this on Steam, PLEASE

Well, it's not quite as easy as to just publish it there but it's not completely out of the question.

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Fun Bug: If you die on the same step that your blank cards open a chest, you can click try again thru the select menu, which will persist into the new run


Come to see of it, cavalry (is super fun) but causes a lot of weird interactions, with things happening at the same time

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My game crashed at 67 million and i would have gotten 12th nooooooooo

Edit: Does that mean that this game is technically pay to win due to the game freezing on lower end devices?

How did it crash?

What is sacrifice used for?

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Used for getting rid of unwanted cards. Though the drawback of it might be too much and I might need to make it a bit less dangerous.

Made it this far and then it froze :/ loving the game though, I've put way too many hours into this!

Cool, nice to see what is actually going in in the "real" end game, I've never made it that far. Dang, too bad that freezing issue is still somehow reachable. Do you remember what happened prior to freeze at all? Looks like you probably were holding some card that somehow got recycled and hence got stuck trying to place card that doesn't exist. Thought I fixed it already but I guess there is still some way to replicate it.

Also, guess I'll need to do some grouping for the skills icons. It'll look much less obtrusive if all those dupes were stacked under one with a count label or something. Any idea what made those empty spaces appear? Are those some of the two colored skills maybe bugged somehow? Not seeing any of those on the list...

Does it still get too easy even with the enemies and the less open levels?

Correct, the crash occured when I went to place a tile and then tried to put it back (to grab another tile).

It does get a bit easy towards the end, you can end up with so much life that it doesn't really matter if you have to block of large sections of the map.

Maybe a max limit on health might help? It would take a bit to work out the sweet spot for late game difficulty, perhaps around 50

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