big brain time

This update changes the health system from keeping BANS 🚫🚫🚫 low to  keeping BRAINS 🧠🧠🧠 high. The game is now about preserving your sanity while arguing stupid shit!

Some feedback I got when posting pics and vids of this game was along the lines I have no idea what the fuck is going on, there are some symbols but what do they even mean. Thinking about it, yeah, it's completely puzzling what get🚫 actually means

One remedy was to change the wording, which I did anyway - there is now deals 30 to your 🧠 instead of get 🚫, for example. another example: I use your opponent gains 👁️ so it's immidiately clear you're giving your opponent the resource she wants, instead of non-specific get👁️ which just makes you think, wtf is 👁️. We'll see how that goes.

A more sweeping change is to completely replace don't get banned with don't lose your brain. I just think 🧠 makes you think more of this is my health bar than 🚫, and also you're aiming to keep it high instead of keeping it low, so it's more intuitive. It does help that there are already games that have a 🧠 bar next to a physical healthbar (usually involving tentacles and all that cthulu shit)

This had me rethink the ideas behind my emoji "color pie", especially 😍.

🤣 - this emoji was meant to be shitposting, low quality spam. It still has that but now with 🧠 as health, it makes sense to give it access to good healing. As in, a chill out m8 feels to me like a sensible way to restore your 🧠

🤔 - this one gets 🧠 restoration too, ofc it's the big brained emoji. It's meant to be slow, high power high cost wait for effect resolving kind of color, so it could use some healing anyway

😡 - stays the same luckily. Was meant to be a drawback based color from the get go (does powerful things but you damage yourself). And getting mad = banned works just as well as lose your 🧠 from getting buttblasted

😭 - kinda works still, kinda doesn't. Regaining your 🧠 with letting it all out makes sense to some extent, and there was already a playing victim theme of cards that scale with getting ban, now they scale with losing 🧠. A bit of a different joke, but still working I think

😍 - and this is the one I actually had to rethink. This emoji is meant to be themed around the ideas of simping, thottery and failed attempts at getting womens attention (I'm still missing a straight up show bob and vagana class). In the "ban evading" version, there was a cheeky theme here of avoiding ban by whiteknighting and RESPECT WHAMEN posts. Ofc it's fucking stupid because all animes made by the art generator are whamen anyway, but I think that just made the joke better. Anyway, it really doesn't make sense for simping to restore 🧠 in any way, shape or form. If anything, it could scale with missing 🧠 maybe? Currrently, I changed it to give 😍 good removal