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My game isn't even finished, and already made it in someone's top 10! 
@FleshToDust I hope you've played the game some time after this, and payed attention to the cards and the rules. If you already love it this much, without understanding the rules, then I would look forward to see what you think when you actually got down the strategies and rules.
Anyhow, I have been a bit quiet around the card game, because I already work on a text based adventure, but I am not done with BiteMe!Cards just yet. I am adding new cards, with unique skills. To understand the skills, you need to understand the game... Maybe I should explain a little just here. (Not just for FleshToDush, but his video's showed me that the rules might be confusing)
How turns work
During your turn, you play at least till all primary slots are filled. You can choose to play cards in the secondary slots, or end the turn. The turn ends automatically when either all your slots are full, or your hand is empty.
At the end of each turn, the primary cards of each player will attack the opposing primary cards. They deal their attack worth of damage, at the same time as they receive the damage from the opposing card.
When the heath of a card reaches 0, the card is destroyed and removed from the game. If there is a card in the secondary slot behind it, it will automatically shove to the front.
How skills work
Fist icon:
This stands for a battle shout. A battle shout will take place when a card is placed in the primary slot. This can happen by playing it there directly, but this can also happen when moved from a secondary slot, what happens automatically when the card in the secondary slot it destroyed.
This effect can be positive or negative towards the caster or their enemies. Some cards may even affect just any card, even itself. They might do damage, or raise the targets HP or Attack value. Or they might shuffle more cards into the deck.
Skull icon:
A deathwish is triggered when the card itself is destroyed. After an attack all destroyed cards will trigger their deathwish, before any destroyed cards are removed from the table. This means, their effects will only harm or benefit cards in who are in the primary slots, even when they are already at 0 HP and there is a card waiting behind, ready to take its place.
A very common death is: "Shuffle a zombie copy of this card into your deck". The same card will come again, with the image is repaced with that of an undead version of the character, and this version will not carry a deathwish.
Fist and skull:
Cards with this icon both have a battle shout and a deathwish. They might both be the same, or very different from each other.
When the deathwish in one of those cards is "Shuffle a zombie copy of this card into your deck", the returning card will still have the same battleshout. Just like any other zombie card, the deathwish would be removed.
How to win or lose?
The first player to start their turn with an empty deck, hand and table, loses the game. This means, you can't win or lose in your own turn. If your last card and the enemies last card are destroyed at the same time in your turn, then you win. Did it happen in the opponents turn, then you lose.
There is only victory or defeat, there is no draw.
And then? What do you win?
After you complete a match, you unlock 3 more cards, and new opponents. (Opponents are randomly selected from a pool which grows during a run.) The score board will keep track of your wins. Your deck keeps growing, and enemies decks keep getting stronger, till you lose 3 matches total. Then your run ends, your score will be final and your deck would be lost.
You will have to start over with an 8 card deck and only a rat in the enemy pool. This the pool grows in a different order, and you unlock other cards than last run per match. This run might either be a lot better, or worse than the last.
One last thing... About enemy AI and enemy decks
The first match of each run is easy.... Those rats are an easy to defeat deck. You can't lose if you played with the screen off.
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th match should be doable by anyone who understands the game, but then it is still not a certain win. (I myself win 2 out of 3, depending on which cards I unlock so early on.)
After match 4, the bigger AI's are added to the pool. Those AI's have the same strategy as the weaker ones, but their decks are stronger. There will be less cards that might work in your favor, and more cards that are hard to defeat. Those decks need real strategy and skill to defeat.
After the 9th fight, the last 2 bosses are added to the pool. They are killers, that have big cards with strong skills. Only with a perfect understanding of the game, you will be able to het past them.
There is a total of 11 bosses you can fight each run. If you are still alive after fighting the last boss, the pool will be reset. You will see the same bosses again, only now their deck will be bigger, and stronger. Even the rat deck, will not be that easy to beat this time around.
Defeating them all will put you on the #1 place on the score board, the first time around. The second time you will have to beat more (because the score to beat is now your old high score).
@FleshToDust I hope you've played the game some time after this, and payed attention to the cards and the rules. If you already love it this much, without understanding the rules, then I would look forward to see what you think when you actually got down the strategies and rules.
Anyhow, I have been a bit quiet around the card game, because I already work on a text based adventure, but I am not done with BiteMe!Cards just yet. I am adding new cards, with unique skills. To understand the skills, you need to understand the game... Maybe I should explain a little just here. (Not just for FleshToDush, but his video's showed me that the rules might be confusing)
How turns work
During your turn, you play at least till all primary slots are filled. You can choose to play cards in the secondary slots, or end the turn. The turn ends automatically when either all your slots are full, or your hand is empty.
At the end of each turn, the primary cards of each player will attack the opposing primary cards. They deal their attack worth of damage, at the same time as they receive the damage from the opposing card.
When the heath of a card reaches 0, the card is destroyed and removed from the game. If there is a card in the secondary slot behind it, it will automatically shove to the front.
How skills work
Fist icon:This stands for a battle shout. A battle shout will take place when a card is placed in the primary slot. This can happen by playing it there directly, but this can also happen when moved from a secondary slot, what happens automatically when the card in the secondary slot it destroyed.
This effect can be positive or negative towards the caster or their enemies. Some cards may even affect just any card, even itself. They might do damage, or raise the targets HP or Attack value. Or they might shuffle more cards into the deck.
Skull icon:A deathwish is triggered when the card itself is destroyed. After an attack all destroyed cards will trigger their deathwish, before any destroyed cards are removed from the table. This means, their effects will only harm or benefit cards in who are in the primary slots, even when they are already at 0 HP and there is a card waiting behind, ready to take its place.
A very common death is: "Shuffle a zombie copy of this card into your deck". The same card will come again, with the image is repaced with that of an undead version of the character, and this version will not carry a deathwish.
Fist and skull:Cards with this icon both have a battle shout and a deathwish. They might both be the same, or very different from each other.
When the deathwish in one of those cards is "Shuffle a zombie copy of this card into your deck", the returning card will still have the same battleshout. Just like any other zombie card, the deathwish would be removed.
How to win or lose?
The first player to start their turn with an empty deck, hand and table, loses the game. This means, you can't win or lose in your own turn. If your last card and the enemies last card are destroyed at the same time in your turn, then you win. Did it happen in the opponents turn, then you lose.
There is only victory or defeat, there is no draw.
And then? What do you win?
After you complete a match, you unlock 3 more cards, and new opponents. (Opponents are randomly selected from a pool which grows during a run.) The score board will keep track of your wins. Your deck keeps growing, and enemies decks keep getting stronger, till you lose 3 matches total. Then your run ends, your score will be final and your deck would be lost.
You will have to start over with an 8 card deck and only a rat in the enemy pool. This the pool grows in a different order, and you unlock other cards than last run per match. This run might either be a lot better, or worse than the last.
One last thing... About enemy AI and enemy decks
The first match of each run is easy.... Those rats are an easy to defeat deck. You can't lose if you played with the screen off.
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th match should be doable by anyone who understands the game, but then it is still not a certain win. (I myself win 2 out of 3, depending on which cards I unlock so early on.)
After match 4, the bigger AI's are added to the pool. Those AI's have the same strategy as the weaker ones, but their decks are stronger. There will be less cards that might work in your favor, and more cards that are hard to defeat. Those decks need real strategy and skill to defeat.
After the 9th fight, the last 2 bosses are added to the pool. They are killers, that have big cards with strong skills. Only with a perfect understanding of the game, you will be able to het past them.
There is a total of 11 bosses you can fight each run. If you are still alive after fighting the last boss, the pool will be reset. You will see the same bosses again, only now their deck will be bigger, and stronger. Even the rat deck, will not be that easy to beat this time around.
Defeating them all will put you on the #1 place on the score board, the first time around. The second time you will have to beat more (because the score to beat is now your old high score).
