introducing Slab City: drugs wars / dope wars meets the card collecting hobby
would love any feedback on a game we've been working on through many iterations for the last 6 months. this game is our nerdy love letter to trading cards and collectibles. it's a roguelike trading card hobby simulation (core mechanism takes inspiration from drug wars / dope wars): you can play it here: https://slabcity.cards and you don't need an account to play the core experience in the daily challenge (takes 5-20min) you can also register (NO EMAIL REQUIRED) to get access to all features and skins (minigames, story mode, free play, etc.). if I could recommend a skin to start with: Unpocketable Monsters is the most complete/refined and you can prob guess what it's based off of. there are also a bunch of other skins that are based on some pretty well known franchises (LOTR, Yugioh, One Piece, general TCG) and sports (baseball, bball, football, all sports), most are still pretty far off from being final. there's a how to play page if you want to a do a deeper dive into the mechanics.
AI has helped make this passion project possible for me and a small team (all card-collecting nerdy dads with full time jobs without any game dev experience). its been helpful with speeding up the coding piece as well as help with assets. we're still quite early on and tuning the mechanisms, awards, experience, etc. I know the sound still needs quite a bit of work (we've only added in sound recently), and the game might be a bit too complex for starters, we'll prob end up removing features or create a more beginner-friendly mode. but im hoping if you like cards (pokemon or sports) it will hit home!
ultimately it will probably end up being a mobile app, as it's kind of designed to be mobile/phone-first rather than browser based (we do have a working mobile version but have not released yet). also, we have 2 themes for the game, retro and riso (riso is newer so not as refined, hence we're trying to get feedback to see if its worth pursuing), if you click the button on the bottom next to the sound button, you can switch between the 2, would love to get any feedback on which one you like better. also happy to hear about your experience and if you have any feature requests, or find bugs, or just curious about the dev process.