February Update:

I generally dont do these too often! But here's some stuff ive done since the launch of BP.

I think an important aspect of BLOOD POKER I want to dig into more is creating a more game-ified version of poker to both stand out (important!!) and to make it fun (importanter!!) The Aesthetics pull (or push) people in a lot but its still.. poker? So heres my plans for now, or a couple.

LEFT HAND

One of the biggest mechanical changes in the 2nd Act of BLOOD POKER is the left hand. It provides a multitude of uses.

Sleeved Cards - You're given a free card every round that can be swapped ONCE! Pulling it out will damage you though!

Fingers - Each finger can hold one of a dozen "blessings", a type of attachment to your fingers that adjust stats or change how you play. Not all of them are good.

Additionally. Each finger can be Severed to reduce the current blood pot. It also reduces your blood penalty for folding. Fingers can be restored after matches, but only so many.

You can sever your entire arm, which will drop the Blood Pot, Raise Amounts, and Fold Penaltys to 0, but the arm will never come back. Its a last resort tool.

Enemies will also get weird effects as well, to even it out. At What point does this just become a luck based rpg lmao...

SETTINGS

I'm adding settings, which will have a lot of "visual" options and modifiers, including certain modes if you plan to record/stream the game to keep quality as high as possible, and a mode to help reduce photosensitive symptoms.

The Act 2 Stuff is basically done (?) just need to work on fixing up some stuff and aesthetics. Then I move onto act 3 which is gonna not be fun!!