Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game
Push your luck in this roguelike deckbuilder. Defeat your boss... OR DIE!
Inspired by Inscryption and Severance.
5 Steps to Success
- Flip over the good cards
- Don't flip over the bad cards
- Buy Game Breaking Perks!
- Avoid Termination!
- Escape?
Streamer Kit
Technology is a Miracle
But it has it's limits. Mr. Magpie might not run that well inside your browser. If that's the case, consider downloading the Windows version for free.
Credits
- Person: Matthew Brelsford
- Also Person: Ezra Szanton
- Puppet People: Shane Denhardt & Kiril Pashev of Evil Villain Games
- Sound Person: Chris Bolte
- Support and Love People: Everyone at Tiny Mass Games, PVGD, and Boston GameDev
Tiny Mass Games
Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game was created in association with Tiny Mass Games, a collective of small teams and solo developers based in Massachusetts(ish) who release a batch of hand crafted, artisanal, farm-to-table games each quarter. Check out our other work at tinymassgames.com
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"Basement Intel" Is now a better name for flipping all Hint Cards on the bottom row, instead of all multipliers
Blanks have been changed to hints!! That's genius!!
To make it clear why I like this so much, changing blanks to hints literally fixes the one issue I had with this game, which is that there was no way to deduce where the enemy cards were
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i looove this game, so addictive!! :)
Glad you're enjoying the game!
Hi! I had to play it again. :) It was the first game I streamed to TikTok, and I plan on playing it again soon!
That was fun to watch! You've got good energy. Hope you find what's behind the 99 door sometime soon ;)
Did you know that if you have no groups larger than one card, Group Think can be used to make eyes retrigger themselves? Now you know!
i thought they patched that a long time ago...
Oh interesting! Was this possible with just Group Think or did you have other perks as well? I'm trying to decide if this is overpowering / easy enough to assemble that it's worth nerfing in some way.
The full build was Group Think, Printing Money, Money into Multiplier, 360 Feedback, and Top! You need a way of making eyes generate $ and Money into Multiplier to go exponential like this. I took this screenshot using a lucky spread where I flipped an infinity card with another in the top row!
...wait, I still have the full screenshot I cropped that image from! I can just post it!
Thanks for the extra info! Do you remember if the group think activated the eyes here and not the big group of money? Or was the big combo from a previous turn where the money wasn't flipped up yet?
I'd used Group Think to scale on a turn when the large group of money cards hadn't been completed yet. After that, I was relying on Top and the top-row infinity card to finish the job! This combo isn't nearly as silly on boards where the position of retriggers relative to eyes matters
love this game can you make where we can buy our health back
you can buy pressing the secret button in the top left corner
Thanks! What is the feeling you're having where you want to buy back health?
Newest build has this now! I'm not sure if it's up on itch yet but if you join the Discord server you can play that version. You can buy back health with time in the shop.
this game is super fun i just wish there wasn't a time limit
thanks! have you found the secret button?
when I first played this game and the first 4 cards I flipped were skulls I thought it was intentional. Later reloaded the page and turns out I was just really unlucky.
lol yeah very bad luck
OK! I really liked this game. The only thing is I wish this was on steam and had a leaderboard :)
Thank you! That's a fun video. Being on steam is in the plan - eventually!
when you put it on steam can you make it multiplayer? i would definitely pay for that
Making it multiplayer would be quite a puzzle since it's designed to be singleplayer. We'll see what we can think of. What are the reasons you'd want it to be multiplayer? Specific people you'd want to play against? The feeling of having an opponent making decisions against you? Something else?
Thanks for playing! I enjoyed seeing you learn more about the game, and good job getting to Tuesday!
wow this game is really fun! Awesome work on the assets and the game mechanics, it all functions really well and is rather enjoyable! Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks so much! It's really nice to read comments like this, keeps me motivated!
Love the addition of getting through the work week! I also completely agree on the Prismatic Pillar and Recon being upgraded to the Gold Tier of perks since they were completely broken previously. I previously barely looked at eye mechanics outside the 360 Perk and now I love them. Overall, great work!
Thanks! Yeah when I was playtesting I realized that I was prioritizing those two over basically everything else and I was like, ah, these should be rare XD.
i love gambling my life with elmo's uncle's roommate's sister's cousin
+2
I have a question. How old is chatgpt
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. Good luck getting to the weekend
This game was a blast to play would definitely play more if there was more things to do!
Thanks for checking it out! And lucky you - I just uploaded a new version yesterday with more things to do ;)
Took a min to understand the mechanics but very solid prototype! Would love to see this be turned into a fully fledged game!
Thanks for emailing me about this game!
(Beat the game first try hehe, though ngl, I probs was just really lucky with my artifacts)
I covered the game on this vid starting at 8:25
Thanks for playing! Fun to watch you play. To answer your question from the end of the segment, this was not made for a game jam but we did make the original prototype in 3 months (for tiny mass games). We're still actively updating it, in fact we just pushed an update today! For now we're working on the gameplay but at some point we'll shift attention to the more horror-y aspects :)
Really liking the new update! Not sure if this is intended behavior, but in the new update, the Close Call perk is able to flip enemy cards
I'm glad you like it! Yeah that is intentional. Close Call is already really good so I figured that possibility helps balance it a bit (even if you do flip up an enemy, it gives you a pretty good idea of where enemy 2 is, so you're only risking yourself on the last 2 enemies)
Kinda fun, could use a bit more polish and more goals and fun things to do. Soild baseline cant wait to see more.
Agreed! Stay tuned ;)
-13 money soft lock.. Yay..
Oh no! Do you remember how this happened? Any details would be helpful for me to track down the bug
loan, if you sell it and dont have enough to hit positive you softlock as you cant even enter 0$ door
Also loan should say, you will have to sell back for -100
And card limit should be made more obvious.
IE outlines for them to fit in.
I see, yeah it is not very well explained. There *are* outlines for the perk slots though, as of yesterday!
Just uploaded a new version of the game where the loans work differently, inspired by this comment!
amazing game
Thanks for playing and sharing the video!
extremely fun
thank you!
Took a few tries, finally got a combo that worked!
Ayy nice! A corner dude I see
please add an endless mode without a time limit.
There may be something like this in the works... ;)
Thanks for playing and sharing your video!
this build is good
Blank Master
Printing Money
Basement Intel
Money Tree
Early Bird
👌
I half expected to end up shot at the end
You're welcome. No promises for the future
Very fun little game!
Thanks!
Oh my gosh the Perk Cards have a little flippy animation now :D
Hehe yes they do! That was fun to add. I'm glad you noticed :)
Really fun game! I thought it was going to have horror stuff, but still great game! fun and adicting
Thank you! We want to add more horror-y stuff in the future, we just haven't had time yet and want to get the gameplay solid first. I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Oh that's awesome to know! I'll be waiting then, thanks :D
Beat me
The game is really fun! I enjoyed it, thank you.
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Wow, I have a better multi tho
What's up with your clock?
Im addicted to this game- i love it so much! its fun
I'm glad you love it!
Game is really fun! I just don't get how the multiplier works, it doesn't look like x2 doubles my money, is there something I'm missing?
Thanks! The way the multiplier works in this game is that any $ you get is multiplied by your multiplier *at that time* (not at the end). So if I have 5x multiplier and flip a $$ card I'll get $10, but flipping another multiplier after that doesn't affect the money I already have. Does that make sense?
ohh, that makes a lot more sense, thanks!
This is a fire game
Thanks :)
I have genuinely been so addicted to this game its not funny
Yeah this game has many layers of random rewards (both flipping the cards and rerolling the shop), and that's one of the most addicting things you can have in a game. I think about whether it's worth it / ethical a lot. I hope that the depth and interest one can get from the game matches or exceeds the amount that one feels compelled to continue playing. If you feel like you're playing just because you're compelled to and not because you're enjoying it anymore, please go do something else!
waiting for harmful card
We don't talk about Mr Jerry
Maybe you don't.
Absolutely loved this game, dev! easily one of the coolest hidden gems ive seen on itch in awhile. I spent a few hours playing after i finished recording and only stopped because I had work in a few hours XD
Genuinely fun and exciting to experience and i highly recommend to anyone who likes deck builders.. you took the idea and made a truly unique experience that ive already told TOO many friends about!
Thanks for making this, really enjoyed my time!
Thanks for playing and recommending it to your friends! This video has some great editing and it's fun to see you find a good build.
This game was fun and unique! It’s exactly what it Says in the description. Check it out!
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Thanks for playing and for the kind words! It was fun to watch you figure it out :)
absolutely! The timer really got me 😅