Today was just a normal Monday at work and was stressful like crazy in my real life job. In between work I was editing some of the code for Crystal Duel as it was on my mind while trying to sleep lastnight. I was able to throw in a new stat mechanic and Gifox is one of the cards which will utilise Critical Attack damage. 

The Critical Damage system is a system I've built in to the engine and more cards will make use of the ability in their own way and Gifox is the first card to use this special ability. 

Gifox seems like the weakest of the bunch due to it's very low HP of 100 Hit Points. The average damage from Benched units is 100 and so Gifox will surely be defeated during a counter.  Gifox mostly sacrifices itself when attacking benched cards by using a special support ability and will recover the players Crystal / Base for 150HP.

With the Critical attack Gifox will by chance land a hefty blow of 30 more points against any unit that tries to attack or when attacking a benched unit. The Critical Damage is on top of the 150 damage it deals already. Gifox will have a 25% chance to counter and deal 180 Damage instead! For a 1 Ability Point card it's an awesome deal and Gifox has a range of uses. It deals 150 damage to the opponents Crystal although the Crystal won't be affected by Critical damage, the Critical damage only applys to benched units to make things just a little more fair.

The scripting over the weekend and testing has been insane, I've spent around 24 hours on this and that includes playtesting and making sure damage calculations and mechanics are fair, precise and working correctly. I'm definitly really happy I could make this addition mechanic and work it in to the game.

There are also more major features on the way and there will be more to announce later on.

Please support the game and there is also a web version you can play although that version is behind on updates. There may be a future update to the web version in future. The plan right now is to focus on making Crystal Duel CCG as a downloadable game and I think you will enjoy this so much more.

Thanks again and I will share more updates soon!