Dramanoes

Hey, ‘sup? Let’s hang out for a moment and I’ll show you this fun game I made up. I’m Hazel Andramano, BTW.

Maybe you're like me and you feel like your lazy weekends really need some, well, drama. Not like the kind you'd normally get from movies, TV, or whatever. I mean like real-life, at-the-mercy-of-fate, no-margin-for-error MAYHEM, but no one gets hurt ‘cuz it’s a card game. So yeah, that’s Dramanoes in a nutshell.

I don't have anything else important to do today.
Guess I’ll get us some drinks and we’ll play a few rounds. You down?

How to play:
Two players (or one player and the computer) start with ten randomly selected numbered cards (Dramanoes), face down.
During each turn, both players pick a Dramano to show each other. Once both players have picked a Dramano, they are flipped over, face-up, to reveal a number between 1 and 12.
The player whose face-up Dramano has a higher (or lower, depending on the game mode) number than the other's flips it back over, face down. The other player discards theirs.
The player who can make their opponent run out of Dramanoes wins the game!

 

Controls:
Left and Right: move selection cursor
Fire (red button): select Dramano
Up: quick-assess Highlighted Dramano
[If the highlighted Dramano's value is 7 or higher, it will nudge slightly. A potentially valuable strategy tool!]
Down: reshuffle (re-randomize) your remaining Dramanoes
[Can be done anytime, though best used in the case of a draw, the hope of improving your chances of winning, etc.]
Select switch OR Left Joystick Left and Right on game select screen: choose game mode. (see below)
Reset switch OR Left Joystick Fire on game select screen: starts/restarts the game.
Left Difficulty Switch: SINGLE PLAYER MODES - affects the probability that the Computer player will reshuffle their own Dramanoes after a certain point. You'll know that it shuffled when its cursor turns yellow.
Right Difficulty Switch: SINGLE PLAYER MODES - affects randomness and amount of time the Computer player takes to select a Dramano.

 

Game modes:
1 - Singleplayer, larger number wins
2 - Singleplayer, smaller number wins
3 - Two player, larger number wins
4 - Two player, smaller number wins

Program and artwork by me. Concept by Hazel Andramano.