Brewing Disaster

Play:

Maximise Touch: tap a card in your hand to play it · Keyboard: not required — played entirely by tap/click

About:

Built for js13k 2024 (13KB size limit), Brewing Disaster inverts the usual card-duel formula: instead of racing separate totals, you and an AI wizard share one meter, so the same card can help or hurt you depending which way it's already leaning. Five characters bring distinct starting decks, winning duels adds new ingredients and upgrades, and beating a character enough times unlocks them to play as. js13k's own judges ranked it 6th overall of roughly 190 entries and 1st in the competition's sponsored Decentralized category.

Every action is a single tap on a card in your hand — no drag, no gesture, no hidden menu. That was confirmed by playing a full run, start to a loss screen, on a simulated touchscreen phone, then repeating it with a mouse on desktop: both worked identically with zero console errors and zero failed requests.

Credits:

Made by Adrien Guéret, 2024. Published here under the Apache-2.0 licence. Source code.

Phone check: played a full run — title, character select, rules, a duel and a loss screen — on a simulated phone (390x844, real touchscreen taps) and repeated on desktop (mouse) on 7 Sep 2026; zero console errors, zero page errors, zero failed requests on either device; no analytics found in the shipped bundle

Tags:

card game · deck-building · js13k · strategy