I finally get to reveal the card game I've been working on with my friends. I present to you Danmaku!!, a party game for Touhou fans.
Hidden RolesDanmaku!! is a game of hidden roles, where players fight it out to discover who is their ally and who is their enemy. There are four basic roles, but there are also special roles that may replace one of the basic roles. The basic roles are as follows:
The Heroine wants to defeat the Stage Bosses sand Extra Boss.
Stage Bosses want to defeat the Heroine.
Extra Bosses want to defeat all of the Stage Bosses, then defeat the Heroine.
Partners want to help the Heroine defeat the Stage Bosses and Extra Bosses.
Special RolesIn addition to the four basic roles, there are seven special roles, which might replace the basic roles at the beginning of the game. Each of the special roles has a slightly different win condition, though they still count as the four types: Heroine, Partner, Stage Boss, or Extra Boss. With the special roles, you can never be quite sure who?s really on your team.
Stage BossesIn addition to the basic Stage Boss, there are three special Stage Boss roles, each with their own particular win condition:
- The Challenger is a Stage Boss that wants to defeat the Extra Boss before defeating the Heroine.
- The Final Boss is a Stage Boss that wants to defeat the Partners before defeating the Heroine.
- The Anti-Heroine is a Stage Boss that wants to defeat a fellow Stage Boss before defeating the Heroine.
PartnersLike the Stage Bosses, there is are special Partner roles with different win conditions:
- The One True Partner can?t stand any other partners and wants to defeat them before defeating the Stage Bosses and Extra Bosses.
- The EX Midboss isn?t really the Heroine?s partner at all! She wants to defeat the Stage Bosses, then defeat the Heroine, helping the Extra Boss win!
Extra BossesExtra Bosses have it rough, as they want to defeat all the Stage Bosses on top of defeating the Heroine. Fortunately, Extra Bosses have the unique ability to reveal themselves during the game in order to gain special advantage. There are two kinds of Extra Bosses:
- The EX Boss can draw an extra card each turn while revealed.
- The Phantom Boss has the ability to manipulate the Incident deck while revealed.
There are two cards for each Extra Boss: The EX Boss and the EX Boss Revealed; then the Phantom Boss and the True Phantom Boss. Be sure you only include the EX Boss and Phantom Boss cards when assigning roles. The other cards are used when the Extra Boss uses their reveal power.
The Heroine and the RivalIn addition to the Heroine, a player may be dealt the Rival card. The Rival is like a second Heroine. The Rival really wants to become the Heroine, and the only way to do that is to take down the current Heroine and take her place!
Selecting Roles- 5 players: 1 Heroine, 1 Partner, 2 Stage Bosses, 1 Extra Boss
- 6 players: 1 Heroine, 1 Partner, 3 Stage Bosses, 1 Extra Boss
- 7 players: 1 Heroine, 2 Partners, 3 Stage Bosses, 1 Extra Boss
- 8 players: 1 Heroine, 2 Partners, 3 Stage Bosses, 1 Extra Boss, 1 Rival
Basics of PlayDanmaku!! is played in a circular, turn-based fashion. Each player has a hand of cards drawn from the Battle Deck. Players play these cards on their turn to try to attack other players. The most common of these is Shoot!.
Shoot! allows a player to attack another player in range. A player who is attacked has a chance to avoid the attack by playing a Graze! card; otherwise, they lose one life. A player that loses all of their life is defeated.
So what does ?in range? mean? All players start out the game with a Range of 1. This means you can attack a player whose Distance is 1 away. Cards such as Power can increase your Range, allowing you to attack further players.
Your distance to another player is the number of seats to the player, plus any Distance modifiers they have. Players sitting next to each other start at a distance of 1, but cards such as Focus increase your Distance modifier. This only makes you harder to hit ? you don?t count your own Distance modifiers when counting to another player. Also, defeated players don?t count, so as players are defeated, everyone gets closer.
The above chart shows the distance from A in a hypothetical game. Players F and G both have +1 distance. Note that distance modifiers other players have aren?t counted, so the distance from A to E is still only 3, even going through F and G
Characters and BombsIn addition to choosing a role, at the start of the game, each player chooses a character from the Touhou universe to play as. Danmaku!! comes with dozens of characters to play as, each with their own unique Abilities and Spell Cards.
A character?s Ability allows them to bend the normal rules in their favor. These benefits are in effect throughout the game. In addition, each character has access to a Spell Card. Spell Cards are attacks that come with an additional powerful effect.
Players can activate their Spell Card by playing a Bomb card. Bombs can also be used to perform a ?Bomb Cancel,? countering a Shoot! or Bomb played by another player. This makes Bombs one of the most powerful and versatile cards in the Battle Deck.
Project Status (Danmaku Unstable 4-18 has been released. Some character errata was released on 4-29)This is today's errata release for the trouble characters:
http://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/ErrataPita5.jpg
Yuuka's bomb now attacks all.
Marisa got a complete rewrite, check her out.
Tenshi gained some independence from 1up cards, since her spell card is the only one with a downside.
Okuu got her new passive rolled into her bomb, trading utility for a triple attack.
Eirin's bomb is now Omiki/Cheers and heals herself and another for 1.
PDFs:
http://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/Danmaku-Characters-Large.pdfhttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/Danmaku-Deck.pdfhttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/Danmaku-Characters-Large-BW.pdfhttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/Danmaku-Deck-BW.pdfhttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/Danmaku-Errata418.pdfTTS (steamcommunity.com/groups/DanmakuTTS)http://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/Danmaku418-Save.ziphttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/deck1.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/deck2.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/deck-back.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/characters.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/character-back.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/roles.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/role-back.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/incidents.jpghttp://danmaku.mysteryparfait.com/download/danmaku418/tts/incident-back.jpg
Changelog:
- Several characters gained secondary passives to help them out
- Remilia nerfed, now only draws instead of steals
- Marisa steals regardless of whether or not she hits!
- Okuu can also discard Invocation cards to draw 2
- Meiling's max hand size is 7 on other player's turns
- Futo gained Alice's "No discard powerups" as well
- Miko can just give cards to another player once per turn
- Party cards are now distributed secretly, Miko's bomb too
- Satori gained a 25% evasion, making her the hardest to play base character. Carrot wanted to unlimit her mind reading but it slows the game too much.
- Reimu now bans categories, and they're listed on her card to help noobs.
- Any dodge card counts against Reimu's passive (There's still only one kind in the base set, but this is future proofing)
- Suika has +1 Range, and +1 Distance at 1 life
- Nitori still has +1 Distance, but can also discard an Item to draw 1 card. Not a good deal but it helps
- Cirno has +2 Range now, she retains her blind spot and vulnerability to her own bomb.
- Eirin's bomb now just heals any one player for 2. That's still a lot by the card advantage rubrik but it's not as spikey.
- Yuuka lost her Tempest bomb, her bomb now negates avoiding her attacks that turn.
- Trashing a card via Seal Away is now optional
- Carrot got sick of 4 player games sucking and is working on an alternate game mode. The game now officially supports 5+ players only until he works that out
- Carrot confirmed there are supposed to be 4 1ups
- Anti-Heroine now only needs to kill 1 stage boss then the Heroine
- Finally got the TPB's Incident ignoring on the card
Thanks for reading, I hope all of you download and enjoy Danmaku!!