Tic Tactic

when i started played i was like "nah theres no way im getting fun with this" and OH MY GOD this is so crazy

I died bc the first boss just ignored the fact that my cross was there and placed a circle X)

I loved all of the different character designs and the many different types of blocks there were in your game! It made for a very fun and engaging playthrough! I thought it was interesting making the enemy unable to act for a turn when they're struck while allowing the player to act right after they're struck. The power of duck vengeance does not falter under chicken strikes!!! Hahaha

If you're looking for any quality of life improvements it might be nice to include a mini explanation of some effects! Such as infect and burning. Infect was more relevant in the video, but I had no idea what it meant to "infect" blocks until I saw it in action and was punished for my ignorance. I saw you made a tile index that I skimmed through and wondered if it might be possible to implement that into the game with the option to view it at anytime if you'd rather not add a mini explanation for burning and infecting.

I also found out that the board will clear even if the end of the turn would have triggered some blocks clearing. I had an axe block that would have moved up and formed a row of x's. However, the opponent used up the last space which caused the board to clear before my axe block could use it's effect. My apologies if that doesn't make sense, but it happens in the video at the 9:15 point if you'd like to see for yourself. To fix that, maybe there can be some sort of check that the player is able to make a move at the start of their turn? If the player is unable to make a move due to a full board, then the board would clear. Maybe that way the blocks could have all of their effects go through?

I found it interesting that blocks would trigger after the opponent went which made my block effects feel much more delayed. For example, I might place a drip block, but my opponent would place a block under it to completely stop my drip block from working. Whereas the opponent can use their drip blocks without worry that I might stop their effect from taking place. I imagine the game was made this way to balance out our ability to strike the opponent and act right afterwards whereas our opponent doesn't have that luxury, but felt I should mention it just in case this wasn't the intention.

If you're looking for any ideas with blocks, it might be cool to add in a shop that allows you to combine certain blocks? Combining an electric chain block with a bomb block as an example could be really cool! A block that gives off chain lightning then explodes whenever it's time comes to an end! It would be fun coming across some sort of npc in a lab coat that loves experimenting with blocks!

Overall, I really loved this game and would play it for hours even if no changes were made to how it's currently set up. There's a lot of charm and love that was clearly put into this! I'm so excited for the full release after experiencing the pre-alpha stages and absolutely put this game onto my Steam wish list! I'm looking forward to your next projects! 

Thank you for making this game!

PLEASE fix the auto end turn because it doesn't work instantly, it waits a bit then if you placed a dice it end the turn

I don't see an option to rate the game, but if I could, I would choose 5 out of 5.  Great graphics, mechanics and gameplay is addicting, thanks for sharing! 

I have played this game and I've loved it, it's a weird combination of Die in The Dungeon and Peglin, both games I really enjoy, and it has come time to leave my feedback:

1) Some of the tiles are extremely weirdly described or lack information, an example being the "25% chance of dealing 5 damage", I always thought that this one was useless because I assumed that the remaining 75% was a "deal no damage", which makes it kinda bad, only now, after beating the game multiple times, I realize that the last 75% was a "deal 1 damage". Another example is the "earthquake tile", reading "when placed causes an earthquake that moves all tiles", I was expecting all the tiles to move in a random direction, which made it a terrible pick for me, now instead I realized that the movement was deterministically towards the ground and that could get me easily out f tricky situations.

2) The elite fights seem underwhelming with rewards, especially because the third option isn't present if you re-roll. some relic like in peglin would make the experience more worth it.

3) There are some interactions I'd like to sort out, like this one: An electric tile doesn't destroy another electric tile, or if beat the game the next run you get to keep the money you had when completing it, or an enemy tile being used to make a player tris (This has happened in the third act against a specific opponent that uses a player tile to suicide.), are those bugs or genuine mechanics?

4) Sometimes the animations feel too slow, could there be an option to increase the animation speeds?

5) As mentioned in point 4, the animation speeds are slow, and there is an option to "pre-move", or put your tile on the board before it is "technically" your turn (I consider this the first moment in which you can press arrow button and skip your turn, which is a weird mechanic on its own), however this means that if you are fast enough (my default mouse sensitivity is the max, and even with that I can't consistently fast enough) you can place your tile where the enemy would want to place theirs, this results in a lot of good perks: 1, the enemy turn is canceled and the tris they made, if any, isn't considered complete. 2, the overwritten tile is gone and won't ever return to the enemy, not even on board clears, this means that you can technically get an enemy to have 0 tiles by overwriting each of their tiles. 3, the overwritten tile, while still visually present, doesn't occupy any space and can be played on by both you and the enemy, the tile is also not considered part of any tris.

P.S. The animation speed also makes another problem, if you use a tile that has an animation (e.g. electric, rain, axe, earthquake) and the animation plays, you have more than enough time to get the tiles to any space you want, making the bug easily accessible. With this I made a fully animation-heavy deck and beat the game by not allowing the final boss to place any tile.

6) No matter how much time I've looked the AI never seems to use the second or third tile in the turn order, even tough they very well could, this also feels like I'm exploiting them for I'm able to essentially plan several moves ahead by looking what the enemy will do and, occasionally, intentionally loosing three hp to get an insane damage number in one turn.

I hope that this comment wasn't heard as a downgrade for this game, this is an awesome game and I really enjoyed playing it. KEEP DEVELOPING

PLEASE add inf mode

smth happened with the plague elite, and now its my turn but there is no play button... the game wont recenter the chicken's cards, the 2 plague cards left on the board have lost their sprites (but the actual tile is still there) there is no way to continue

also, the save function doesn't work for me, every time I continue it just resets me at pond ruins, the only thing is that the map generation is the same

I wish there where more levels

this is the best deckbuilder i've played in a while. I love the amazing and ingenious twist on the old classic.

my endless ramble that is my thoughts (u don't have to read this):

1) I think there would be a cool roguelite element if you added different starting characters.

ideas/examples:

when you  first start, you are a basic duck who begins each run with    5 basic tiles

after you beat pond ruins, you unlock armor duck who begins each    run with 2 shields and 3 basics

etc. etc. 

if you want to preserve the roguelike element, then you don't have to, but i often find that with roguelikes like yours, it feels too luck-based  to beat the game. if you added a character unlock system, it would    be a easier and more interesting game as you can make fun combos  with different starting decks

2) I think the second boss may be too overpowered, because if it makes a match with 3 unharmed shield tiles (which is 80 percent of its deck) it matches twice, once for the original match and again for the match of cracked shields after all the tiles in the match take 1 damage. you could change this by adding more diversity to his deck, instead of 4 shield + 1 heal

3) the trade offers are a bit much, because they often trade for a good tile, but at the cost of 2-3 pretty good tiles, which is not a worth it sacrifice.

4) maybe for the last area, add a huge possibility of routes with maybe a elite only route that faces you against elite after elite, for skilled  or very lucky decks who want to go for high scores and high rewards. you could also add mini bosses and a final boss

great game! I could only defeat 6 enemies :D 

I won because of water, duplicate and arrow tiles because arrows delete their blocks while water and duplicate spread mine. Feel free to try it yourself.

Honestly a fun game!

11/10 rating

I won! Spamming gifts is busted: if you get a board with a few of them down and then score, they will multiply, it will be your turn again and you're practically guarenteed to have enough on the field to score again after you take it, which will cause it to be your turn on the board with 3 still available and it just gets out of hand... I hit the final boss with 4 scorings in one turn to practically instakill it.

This was a fun one!

The Staging of when things move up and down is weird. When I place a rain it doesn't move on the enemy's turn, but when the enemy does it moves before I get to place

The text from the trader (when declined) writes over the old text. This might need to get fixed.

As far as the game goes: It's a fun variation of a classic!

Loved it =D plays well and will play more on my own time! =) keep up the amazing work!

i think you can heal if you quit and then continue?? I had to leave and eat and when i came back i was full health idk i think it happened maybe i forgot