Erik Buchholz

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Ace of Blades

Playing cards come to life in this Vampire Survivors-inspired, action-solitaire game. Attack other cards with katanas, spears, magic wands and boxing gloves; match to defeated cards with Golf Solitiare rules to assume their suit and value, and gain their powers.

In the center of the field are four stock piles of cards that can be matched to; win the game by getting to the roots of all four stock piles.

Developed for Global Game Jam 2023. Programming, art, and design by me. Uses a from-scratch 2D prototyping engine that uses DirectX12 on Windows, and WebAssembly and WebGL on web.

https://hakkthazard.itch.io/ace-of-blades