I've been debating whether I should /not/ shuffle the deck but instead try to make the mazes hand-crafted puzzles, but that's probably a bit too much work for a game jam (and for me generally). Maybe a future version could have a puzzle mode?

To make the game more challenging, a monster will appear every every 10 discards. The monsters will probably move around randomly to mess up your plans. After a certain number of monsters appearing/time passed?), the minotaur appears and moves straight for you from the entrance.

There will also be different difficulties in the maps themselves. Some areas will have pits instead of just walls so you have to navigate carefully: with walls, you can use cards to just walk into them without moving, but pits will send you back to the beginning without your cards!

I haven't decided what happens if you run out of cards yet... maybe you just lose? Or maybe I make it a scary affair where you can't move while the minotaur comes and gets you without any obstacle!

Instead of working on game mechanics, I made level intro animations! I'm pretty happy with how they turned out!!
#pixelArt #TIC80

I should start actually using the right hashtag for the A Game By Its Cover jam... #AGBIC

Here's my pathetic attempt to recreate the beautiful cover art in limited pixels... Even though it's nowhere near as nice, it's not actually that bad!
#AGBIC #pixelArt

Yikes, work has really gotten in the way of working on this. I got a lot of enemy movement in, but I still have a long way to go and a lot more levels to make before I'll be happy enough with it. I just hope I'll be able to get that done before the #AGBIC #gameJam is over...

Well..... I get up for work in about 6 hours, but I got to spend 3 hours tonight working on sound effects and music for my #AGBIC game! I'm going for a spooky sort of vibe and I'm getting pretty good results so far!

Here's the #music I've made for the title screen! It's spooky and foreboding to set the tone for trying to escape a dream labyrinth! #AGBIC #gameDev

And here's the #music I made to play on the Help screen. I figured I'd share it here because there are some people who might never look at that screen. #AGBIC #tic80

Yeah, I'm definitely not finishing this game on time. I'll release what I've finished on Wednesday, but it's woefully incomplete. I've become too busy in life to finish game jams anymore it seems...

Whoa, I either wildly misread the #AGBIC end date, or it changed at some point because it's due NOW! Yikes. I'll at least put up a "demo" of the incomplete game to submit.

Alright, here's where you can play my #AGBIC 2021 #gameJam submission in all its incomplete glory:
https://alamantus.itch.io/labyrinth-deck

I intend to finish it ASAP and update the page when it's ready! #gameDev

@Alamantus that's what I would suggest. Get the mechanics down now and release the Level Development Kit tbd

@68km That's not a bad idea. It's just the TIC-80, and I'm using Lua, so technically anyone could just go into the editor and modify the code! If I tidy it up enough, people could develop their own levels :)

@Alamantus would a puzzle mode include level-specific decks (like "this level has more lefts and less full-downs")?

@68km It wouldn't be too hard to mod the deck creation to do something like that... Right now it just generates a larger number of single moves and a decreasing number of multiple moves, where 4 moves only has like 2 cards in the whole deck.

It would be easy to just hand-write the deck's contents instead of generating them!