Video Game Update
Added 2019-01-31 18:33:46 +0000 UTCI was hoping to finish the game this month, but alas. It's very close though! All of the gameplay elements are completed and functional and now I'm just wrestling with customizing the Visual Novel Maker menu system so that you can save your progress and quit the game and things like that. It's coming soon, but it's hard to say exactly when.
You can get a sense of how to play in the image above. On the right I see the Dealer's first card, which was a 5. Then I received my first card, which was a 7 in this case. The goal at the end of the round is to have more points showing than the Dealer without going over 21, so I opted to "Take Card". The game randomly gave me a 2, which wasn't much of an improvement and put me at 9, so I opted to "Take Card" again. This time I got a 6, so now I'm at a total of 15.
I can "Take Card" again to try to get closer to 21, but then I'm definitely in danger of going over, in which case I loose this round and get a face full of chloroform and loose another point of HP. Since I only have 1 HP left, that means Slavemonger knocks me out and it's GAME OVER!
If I "Stay" then the Dealer will start drawing its own cards until it either scores higher than me, in which case Slavemonger wins and I get a face full of chloroform and loose an HP, or the Dealer goes over 21, in which case I win and punch Slavemonger in the face and she looses an HP. She has 4 HP remaining and I only have 1, which mean that I'm way behind. I'm going to have to beat her 4 times in a row at this point or she's going to take me out! Even if I win this round, I've got a long way to go to defeat Slavemonger.
So what would YOU do? Take another card or stay at 15?
I guess you'll get a chance to decide for yourself very soon. :)
