A bit of a detour today. I want to help a friend promote a game that he made as a hobby that I feel is pretty solid, and he would like more exposure and more feedback. So I wonder how many eyeballs I can send that way...
It's called
Odyssey Poker. Already a pretty cool name. It's essentially a poker solitaire puzzle game, where you try to set up the required poker hands as you place cards on the board. There are power ups to assist you in clearing the boards, and the usual in game coins which can be used to buy lives and power ups. Pretty standard stuff as far as these puzzle games go. Here's a bundle you can buy for coins. Wee.
When you start you are presented with a comprehensive tutorial. Personally I rather just jump into games and figure it out, but still, it was helpful.
Here's what the level selection area looks like.
In this first set of levels, there's also video tutorials made by the game developer that walks through how to pass the boards. Extra fun for me because I have heard the voice in real life before.
The concept is very simple, yet as is the norm with puzzle games, requires some careful management of space to complete the task in the harder boards.
Here's a sample level in progress:
Cards from the draw pile are placed on the board building upwards, in the yellow highlighted squares. You can match hands on the horizontals, verticals, or diagonals. This board asks for two straights, one flush, and two three-of-a-kinds. I imagine it can get even crazier than that.
There's a daily challenge mode with a leaderboard for high score, as well as a versus mode mode where you try to get a better score than your opponent.
I was told this game used to run offline so that it would be fully playable on an airplane. But some features made it tricky to get right so it does periodic checks now. If you're in a subway system that gets sporadic internet it might still be quite playable. No luck on an airplane though. Ah well.
Anyone want to play it? It looks kinda simple but it's a fun puzzler. Good old solitaire type games. You can connect with Facebook or register with email. I haven't told this person about Steem yet. But I will soon! See you on the boards...
Try it out, leave some feedback and I'll 100% vote ya.