Can you maintain equilibrium of the scale balance?

Developed for the Kenney Jam 2026. First game ever after installing Unity 3 weeks ago...


How to Play

Select cards from your hand and place them on the scale balance. But be careful - where you place them affects the balance of the scale, depending on the cards value and its distance from the middle of the scale!

Tips
  1. Score more points for bigger cards placed further away from the middle of the scale. 
  2. Use the "net moment" indicator for a quick reference for computing the total sum of cards on each side. Balanced => 0. Positive => rotating to the right. Negative => rotating to the left.
  3. Be careful of waiting too long with the scale unbalanced; momentum will build!


    Footnotes

    Had some ideas to extend scoring system & strategy using the card suites but ran out of time.

    Credits:

    • Assets/Textures/Skybox: Kenney, Kaykit, including:
      • kenney_skyboxes
      • KayKit_Forest_Nature_Pack_1.0
      • kenney_fantasy-ui-borders
      • kenney_boardgame-pack
      • kenney_ui-pack
      • KayKit_ResourceBits
    • Developer: abot7
    • Audio: abot7

    Published 4 days ago
    StatusReleased
    PlatformsHTML5
    Authorabot7
    GenreCard Game, Strategy
    TagsCozy, High Score
    ContentNo generative AI was used

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    Comments

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    i am not a fan of card games and could not figure out how to score properly.

    best i got was 230

    i got to say i did enjoyed it.

    Glad you were able to enjoy it, despite not liking card games! Yeah the scoring is a little bit of a black box. I think one of the improvements I would make is to provide feedback to the user when they place the card on how many points they score, based on the card value * distance from centre. 

    I scored 247. Cosy game whilst providing a decent mathematical challenge. Also stuck to the theme. Amazing that you achieved this with only 3 weeks experience, well done!

    Thank you for your comment! I appreciate the feedback :)

    My high score: 289