#game template

As a template in Project M.A.M.I, this game’s combat encounters feature the following:

Leader: One of four different player characters (or more if you install a mod), each with their own category of cards and relics unique to themselves. Each of them starts a run with their own HP pool, a starter deck of 10 cards, a personal starter relic, and 99 gold.

Cards: Primarily Action cards used to attack enemies, defend yourself, and strategically prepare for the following turns. Cards here are played on a 3-Energy system which refills to 3 at the start of the player turn. Your hand of 5 cards is drawn at the beginning of the player turn, and is subsequently discarded at the end of your turn unless such cards are played, discarded, or “exhausted” to a permanent discard pile beforehand. These cards are categorized as follows:

Attacks - Methods of dealing direct damage to enemies.

Skills - Cards that help block or debuff enemies, as well as buffing yourself in various ways.

Powers - Passive-granting cards that grant buffs after being played. These cards remove themselves from rotation completely after being played.

Statuses - Generally-unplayable cards forced into your deck by enemy actions and by playing select cards. These cards are typically junk that will clog your hand, but they’ll remove themselves from your deck at the end of the encounter.

Curses - Negative unplayable cards that are forced into your deck from varying events and intensifiers. They will sometimes actively hinder your ability to play when drawn, while sometimes just clogging up your hand. These cards will stay in your deck between encounters until forcefully removed.

Items: Items offered throughout a run manifest in the form of Relics that stay in your possession for the duration of your run, and Potions that are single-use before disappearing. These items can be found as part of an encounter’s loot, in select events, or purchased from the card-selling Merchant. Some items are exclusive to one character.

Relics - They present themselves as either Passive items that (usually) present a passive buff throughout the entire run, or as Instant items that grant an immediate boost and do nothing else thereafter. There is no limit to how many Relics you can carry, but you’ll never find duplicates.

Potions - These Consumable items sit in your inventory until used, in which they take an instant effect at that point. You can hold up to three potions at a time, although you can discard unwanted potions whenever you want to make space for new potions. They can be used at any point during your turn as a free action without losing any other resources, while some can also be used while enemy actions resolve or even outside of combat altogether.

Units: The only units in this format are the enemies that you fight in encounters. Some enemies are classified as tougher Elite encounters or a Boss fight found only at the end of the map. Once all enemies are killed or flee, you win the encounter.

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Battle Flow:

On the first turn only, resolve any combat-start effects.

Start of player turn: Resolve turn-start status effects and passives, then set Energy to 3 and draw 5 cards unless you have 10 cards in your hand (extras will be discarded).

The player then spends Energy to play their cards, and then chooses to end the turn.

Turn-end status effects and passives are resolved after the turn is ended.

Start of enemy turn: Resolve turn-start status effects and passives, then resolve enemy intentions from left to right.

Start the next player turn and restart the cycle.

Once all enemies are killed or flee, you win the battle and claim their loot; this is typically gold, a card, and sometimes a Potion or Relic.

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Categories:

The Ironclad

The Silent

The Defect

The Watcher