In this deck building 1v1 2D-Arena-Shooter, after each round the contestants add a card to their deck. With the ongoing match the madness escalates as the decks get thicker. It's local-multiplayer, so grab a friend. First to 5 rounds wins the match.

ACTIONGAMEPADP1 KEYBOARDP2 KEYBOARD
ATTACK/INTERACTBF
JUMPAWUP
FALL THROUGH PLATFORMSD-PAD DOWNSDOWN
LEFTD-PAD LEFTALEFT
RIGHTD-PAD RIGHTDRIGHT
PAUSE THE GAMEMENUPP

THE GAME INCLUDES:

  • 38+ unique cards
  • 6+ Arenas, each with a unique game-play element
  • 14+ Cosmetics

Music by B_SEAN and Seth Makes Sounds

Created for the CONSTRUCT JAM 2024, edit: and also won :0, with the theme ESCALATION. I hope you like it. Feedback and ratings are greatly appreciated!

v1.1:

New:

  • 10+ New Cards
    • Nerf: Larger Player
    • Nerf: Slippery Floor
    • Nerf: Self Damage
    • Nerf: Faulty Ammo
    • Zig-Zag Bullets
    • Ultra Jump
    • Zeus' Wrath
    • Exploding Bullets
    • Randomizer
    • Turret
    • Engineer
  • 2 New Maps
    • Lava: be wary of some environmental hazards
    • Trampoline: bounce
  • 5+ new Skins, I hope you can express your mood and personality a bit better now

Additions & Changes:

  • Menus and UI completely overhauled
  • Players can change their name now
  • New pause screen (P)
  • All original maps have been reworked to simplify the layout and allow more play around the map's gimmick
  • Improved Jump and Head Bonk helper that avoids catching on an edge
  • better match point notification
  • Score display changed to be more intuitive

v1.2:

  • New re-roll mechanic, each match each player can re-roll the card choice once
  • 2 new cards
  • 2 new skins

v1.3:

  • New map (with teleporters)
  • New card (Steve)
  • some new and some improved skins
  • Greatly improved gamepad support
  • match length shortent to first to 5 (was 6)
  • A large amount of QOL changes
  • some minor balancing changes to some cards
  • a bunch of general bug fixes

v1.4:

  • Cards now have unique icons
  • new card Comeback
  • two new songs (by Seth Makes Sounds)
  • outline shader was improved
Updated 3 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
AuthorFederico Calchera
GenreShooter, Action, Fighting, Platformer
Made withConstruct
Tags2D, Deck Building, Local multiplayer, Multiplayer, party-game, Versus
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller
AccessibilityInteractive tutorial
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count2

Development log

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Is there any way i could mod this? My friends and I are really enjoying the game, but it would be great to have more cards, maps and the option to choose the length of the game

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I'm happy you enjoy the game!
Currently there is no easy way to mod the game and I am also not sure how I can improve moddability. But if you know js you might be able to dig into the files and make some changes, round length should be easy to mod but adding cards and maps not so much.

I do want to add a setting for game length as well as new cards and maps. So if you have suggestion for cards and maps feel free to tell me and I may add them in the next update.

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I was thinking about some sort of mega cards which are very strong but you can only take one of them throughout the whole game and they are pretty rare. For example:

  • An extra life each round (not sure how overpowered that is)
  • 3 random non-mega Cards (needs testing for the number)
  • Bullets fly three Times as far (dangerous with selfharm)
  • For every bullet you shoot, one is sent out in the opposite direction too (maybe too weak as it only really works with splitshot or quickburst)
  • Nerf: Opponents movement controls are inverted (very funny)
  • All your constructs are duplicated (Gives a use to the category)

Feel free to use these or change the numbers or just ignore the whole concept.

More cards:

  • Boomerang: Bullets return at the end of their trajectory and go back to the point that they were sent out from in a straight line
  • Cure: Remove all nerfs in your deck (and maybe immunity to future ones too)
  • Slowdown Bullets: Bullets slow down the enemy if they are nearby
  • Dash: dash by double tapping in any direction (with cooldown of course)

Some other things:

  • Theres a little spelling mistake in the Jump Sustain card where it says Sustian
  • For some cards it would be helpful to have a number, for example how much faster do you reload or move
  • If youre already making a longer gamemode, you could also add a Quick game Mode where you get one mega and two normal cards at the beginning and only play to three points
  • is there any problem with players taking the same card multiple times? That would be interesting
  • I saw this at the PLAY Creative Gaming Festival, in case you didnt know your game was featured there or were unsure wether it would reach anyone through that
  • Maybe add a way for customizing the controls and add Controller support
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Ohh, great to hear that you found the game at PLAY24. :) I wasn't sure if anyone would see the game as it's kinda tucked away in a corner on a station with other cool games.
Very cool ideas, I'll be sure to add some of them in the next update.
Btw controller support is already in the game, you may need to press a button on the gamepad before it's detected though.

Yeah, i just chose to look at this one over the others as i was there with a friend and a duel sounded like a nice Thing to have. He won every Single one of Our five or six matches by the way. But i am practicing so i can beat him in the future

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Really excellent game. I would 100% buy this were it slightly more polished and added to steam.

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10/10 uauuuu

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this is so cool! 12/10

(+2)

Love this game. 5/5

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I love your game!!! It reminds me of a game I developed in 2017 for a Construct game jam. I built platformer pathfinding mechanics in it.

I think your game has much better style, graphics, feel and overall great execution. If you can bring in platformer pahfinding to your game, you can maybe launch a 1P version of the game as well.

Check out my game here: https://abhishan.itch.io/blu

(+2)

Had fun with my kid playing it! Really cool!

Of course I let you guess which color he was. He would not let me pick the end bonus first while I was loosing. x)

(+3)

Super fun! I really like how you can nerf the other player

(+1)

Seems like a really fun game! Extremely polished and great to play, only downside is I can't find someone to play with rn :)

also one other issue is that using up/down will also scroll the website, so it kinda makes it harder to play properly.

Thank you! Yea I noticed that too, it can be solved by going into full-screen mode. Maybe I can think about alternative inputs.

Idk if it was just my computer but the full screen button didn't do anything 

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NICE WORK :)