Josef and the Aliens

A deckbuilder where your deck is the Universe.

Josef and the Aliens is a card-and-dice game prototype where your “deck” is the Universe itself. Roll dice, chain actions, and unleash combos of heavy damage with effect cards. Glitches are intruder type cards that disrupt your strategy, and the Black Hole forces you to discard each turn. Everything is against you, yet everything is in perfect balance.

Key Features

Cards and Dice: 
The base of your resources is determined by the roll of the dice. Manage your hand to chain the perfect combo.

Glitches: 
There are anomalies. "Glitch Cards" will appear to debuff your stats, forcing you to adapt your strategy on the fly.

Black Hole:
You are required to discard multiple cards each turn to keep the singularity in balance.

White Hole:
This is your "deck", infinite resources, limited probability.

Story:
This game doesn't go straight into gameplay. You follow the story of Josef and his first meet with the Aliens. 

StreamAlly's Game Jam

This prototype was made in 1 week as part of the first StreamAlly's Game Jam.

The theme was: "You shouldn't be here."

My interpretation of the theme follows two paths:

• Narrative
  • A story setting that explores the questions of alienation, invasion and humanity.
• Gameplay
  • Glitch cards - they pop up from time to time, as intruders, disrupting the space-time around you.
  • Black hole / Discard mechanic - each turn you are required to choose which cards shouldn't be part of the ongoing process and strategy

Rules and stuff

Detailed set of rules and description of turn flow is always accessible during gameplay under the RULES button.

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Design, Writing, Code, Art, Sound & Music by NICK ADA