Cut the Cards (tuxdb.com)

In this roguelike deckbuilder, you cut the cards... literally! With scissors! You can recombine the cut-outs to form new cards, and you can play your custom cards in combat or in text-based dialogue events. The game has a custom natural language processing engine that will determine the special effects of each new card you make.
(Note: This game does not include a "large language model" nor GPT-like AI.)

Features:

Custom card creation. As you play, you'll discover hundreds of cards. When choosing which cards to take, you have to not only consider the card's effects itself, but also what cards you could create from it.
Card battles with physics-based simulations. When you shoot arrows at an enemy, there's not just a generic slashing animation. Instead, arrows fly out towards your enemy and collide (or not!) with them.
Text-based events. Every event can have serious consequences. Do you choose to help a goblin in need, hoping for a reward, guessing that he won't try to steal one of your cards?
Play your cards even outside of combat. Special purple options appear during dialogue if you have a card that could be useful. These options usually give you additional rewards. Carefully consider how to balance your deck between combat and non-combat cards to successfully traverse the continent.
Complex elemental system. Each enemy has their own vulnerabilities, resistances, and immunities. If you try to attack an enemy wearing chainmail with a dagger, it won't be so effective. But try shocking them with lightning, and it might just double the damage!
Nonlinear exploration in a randomly generated map. Each time you play, a new map with different arrangements of biomes, settlements, and rivers is generated. You can choose to backtrack, but you'll have to keep an eye on your rations. The maps are in hand-drawn style (and if you want an authentic version without colors, you can choose that in settings!)

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2743630/Cut_the_Cards/

Cut the Cards v0.0.9.9: Tutorial complete!

Hello everyone! The tutorial system is now finished.

I got some cool color-coding for words working for the tutorial to make it easier to understand:
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This coloring was surprisingly difficult, actually. There are multiple ways the code can parse the text, and it has to inject colors at just the right locations. Either way, it's done now! Hopefully, it will make the card cutting mechanic a bit more intuitive (and just maybe look cool along the way).

Here's another interesting thing I added:
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I haven't seen any other games implement adaptive tutorials. I think it's a cool idea that the game could auto-skip parts of the tutorial that you already know. I picked two popular games with similar mechanics to Cut the Cards, and each tutorial message is specifically coded to only show up if you haven't played a game with a similar mechanic before.

There are a few more things I need to polish up, mainly the enemy attacks and details in the shop, but I hope next time, I'll have version 0.1 to share: the first playable version that I can start handing out to playtesters! It is a bit later than my original plan of releasing it in the spring, but I think it will be well worth the wait with all these cool new features I've had time to cook up!