Dragon Crusade

Can you defeat the EVIL DRAGON?

Dragon Crusade is a deck building RPG, where you start with a small army of units and fight all that stand in your way.
- Level up your units!
- Reduce the size of your army to upgrade equipment and get special items (be sure to equip those)!

The game was made in 9 days for GoGodotJam 4!

How to play:

1. Controls:
- The game is played entirely with mouse. LMB to select cards. RMB to cancel selecting target on specific cards.

2. Battle:

• The game is played in turns.
• At the start of each of your turns, you gain 3 energy, which can be used to play cards. 
• Each card has an associated energy cost (top left corner of the card).
• The cards power depends on the unit using it, so the same card can have different effect.
• Whenever an enemy attacks you, you lose armor first and health only after that. Your armor is reduced by 80% at the start of your turn.

• Enemies have armor and health as well, and it behaves identically.
• Above the enemies you can see their intent for next turn:

- Means the enemy will attack next turn.

- Means the enemy will gain armor next turn.

- Means the enemy will both attack and gain armor next turn.

- Means that enemy will give armor to all enemies next turn.

• After the battle is over, your army is awarded experience, divided into two groups:
  • Battle experience is divided equally among your army (so if you gain 500 experience and you have 50 units, each will get 10 Experience points).
  • Participation experience is awarded in full to any unit that used a card in the current battle.

3. Rest:

• After each battle, you will enter a rest zone.
• During a rest you can upgrade your cards, change equipment of your units and continue to the next stage

4. Blacksmith:

• At blacksmith you can put 5 of your units to work there each time you enter a new rest zone.
• The units put to the blacksmith are permamently lost.
• Upgrading the blacksmith makes all of your basic cards much stronger, as well as grant you additional 2 special cards that are more powerful than regular ones.
• Those special cards can be equipped in the equipment menu (do not forget to do it!).

5. Card effects:

• On card you can see their cost, name and effect.
• While in the equipment menu, the cards show their effect in percentage of the unit's stats. For example "Deals 250.0% magic damage to all enemies" means that the card will use 250% of the unit's magic and deal that number to all enemies.
• Card effects:
  • Deals damage to front enemy - means it will automatically target the front enemy.
  • Deals damage to any enemy - you can select whichever target you want to be damaged. Cancel selection with right mouse button.
  • Deals damage to X random enemies - it will deal damage to X random enemies. The same enemy can be targeted more than once.
  • Gain armor - the card will increase your current armor.
  • Persists - the card will not be discarded from your hand if not used.

Credits:

• Game and graphical assets done by me
• Music assets used:
  • "The last leaf of the fall" - Hitctrl
  • "RPG - Title music 2" - Hitctrl
  • "RPG Ambience - Exploration" - Hitctrl
  • "The Battle of Atheria" - Hitctrl
  • "The Sound of Battle" - HydroGene
  • "Visions of Freedom" - Jonathan Shaw
  • "Can't Stop Winning" - Jonathan Shaw
• Sound assets used:
  • Halftone SFX Pack Lite - V0iD1
  • Sound effects by Lurpsis
  • Sound effects by Seidhepriest
• Fonts used:
  • Happy Marker - Heaven Castro