I made a video game ! Carnholt is a Roguelike deckbuilder I created by myself using my illustrations. Venture into the depths of the oldest forest and kill a god that refuse to die I hope you will enjoy it.

If this interest you, you can wishlist it on steam or try the demo on Itchio !

I will proofread the text in the game for you for free if you need smth like that.

Had this randomly come across my feed. I'm a sucker for card games. Adding this one to my Wishlist, I'll be keeping an eye out.

Thanks man ! I hope you'll enjoy it, I tried to put all my love for the genre in it !

insane work, can't wait to try it out

Merci ! Superbe nom au passage

merci, je t'ai wishlist, j'avais même pas capté t'étais francais mdrr raison de plus

Выглядит очень круто 👍

Wishlisted. Any chance we can get the Demo for steam as well?

I'll use the itch io demo to find bugs and polish a bit the gameplay and then I'll post it on steam !

OMG, I'm immediately reminded of Duelists of the Roses and I LOVE IT. Also, really love the artstyle! I wishlisted. <3

all the art and the dev for the game? that's incredible!

Thanks ! Yes I'm doing (mostly) everything. Someone else is doing the music and I'm having a bit of help with the card formating but the goal was to make as much as I could by myself. To learn and also because I wanted this to be personal unlike the client work I do

how's the learning curve compare for the art vs the development? the animations look awesome. if the gameplay is good then you'll probably do well. just a matter of marketing once it's ready to release. you have a plan for that?

I studied computer science so development was not too overwhelming (still hard but never got stuck for too long) Marketing is kind of the hard part. I don't really like it and I'm not good at it. Right now I'm working on polishing the demo. I'll do some playtest on steam first.

I wouldnt waste time marketing without having a demo or at least an alpha for playtesters to try. Your best bet is word of mouth (assuming the game is good - doesnt have to be great, just actively not bad). Im assuming youre self publishing and dont have some (or any) budget for marketing. But then it depends what your goals are for the game - doesnt need to sell like crazy if it ends up being a good piece for your portfolio. Artist+dev combo is certainly interesting for studios (if thats a goal)

Yep, no marketing budget. From what I heard having a bit of wishlists when launching a demo helps since it can push forward a bit in the steam algorithm. Of course the most important part is getting streamers to play. Right now I have a playable demo on itchio.

I would look into and maybe ask on cardgame subreddits how to get people to try out the demo. The various mtg subreddits are a good place to start since youre already an official artist for wotc, so its not totally out of the blue. That and ask other successful indie devs how they got about it. Mina the Hollower just came out, contact wheover made that and see if they have advice. Theres been a bunch of random first time dev successes in the past year. Im certain most if not all will share advice to you

I'm keeping the mtg subreddit for the launch of the demo ! But yeah that's a great idea. But yeah I should definitely contact other card game subreddits

Awesome, been a fan of deckbuilders since the launch of slay the spire one. Will be trying this out for sure!

Thanks !

Your art looks so unique! Keep going with the great work. Will it be released?

Thank you ! Yes releasing it the goal, it still hard to say when this will happen but I'm aiming for the end of the year

Wish you luck!!! The game has a lot of potential

The animations look so dang pretty

Thank you ! I really wanted things to feel fluid and punchy (and ended up loving making vfx !)

Love the art style! Hope it's a big hit for you! Great work making something on this level of complexity! Card-based roguelikes ain't my thing (not my style of RNG dependency), but any fans of stuff like Slay the Spire should definitely check this out, cause it looks dope!

Thanks ! I'm definitely aiming for the mtg/slay the spire audience ! I guess only time will tell how well it does

So pretty! 😍

Thanks ! Love the enemy character design in you game

the presentation and fx are extremely well done! A deckbuilder must be no easy task. Congrats!

It was quite a complex task, I finally got to use my computer science degree !

I love deckbuilder games!!! Wishlisted ✨

Thanks !

Anything with your art on it is a delight to see 🔥🔥

Thank you so much, I hope you'll enjoy it !