Emberleaf

Emberleaf is a competitive card-dancing and tile-placement board game.

As a brave Emberling, your mission is to rebuild your home in the heart of an ancient forest. To succeed, you'll explore the wilderness, gather resources, clear dangerous areas, and construct new homes for your kin. Along the way, you'll recruit heroes into your fellowship, each bringing unique skills that will help empower your team. But beware - space in the forest is limited, and other Emberlings have their own plans.

The game features:

• Card Dancing: Place hero cards within your moving grid to activate skills and enhance your fellowship. Slide cards to trigger powerful combinations and charge them at the perfect moment for even greater effects.
• Tile Placement: Build vibrant villages to address the diverse needs of your villagers.
• Engine Building: Recruit heroes to acquire new skills and empower your existing fellowship.
• Resource Management: Navigate the forest, clear dangerous areas, and collect essential resources.

Every decision you make shapes the destiny of your people. Can you rise to the challenge, guide your village to prosperity, and win the heart of your fellow Emberlings?

What is Card-Dancing?

Card dancing is a strategic gameplay mechanism where each player works with a fixed-size grid (player board) and a set of unique cards. The core gameplay revolves around two main actions: playing a card onto the grid or sliding all the cards on the grid to the left.

Card Placement: Each card has unique abilities that can influence the game in various ways, and when placed onto your player board, they trigger any 'on play' skills the card possesses. There’s no limit to the number of cards you can hold in your hand; all cards are always either on your player board or in your hand.

Sliding: When you choose to slide, all cards on the grid move one space to the left, triggering any slide skills they may have. If a card moves off the edge of the grid, it returns to your hand, triggering any potential 'drop off skills' unique to that card. The remaining cards stay in their new positions, potentially setting up combinations for future turns.

The key to success is positioning your cards so that when you slide, they align to trigger a powerful combination of skills. These might also activate 'ongoing skills' that are triggered when specific criteria are met, or they may combo with various gameplay bonuses such as homing villagers, building in specific locations, or triggering scoring bonuses.

Beyond simply aligning cards, you will want to carefully consider the timing of your slides and how to maximize the impact of slide and drop-off skills.