Planes vs Cards

Become an ace! Fight an army of invading... cards?

Controls
• Use up/down or W/S to move.
• Press or hold space or D to shoot.
• Press enter to pause the game.

How to play
• Avoid being hit by cards!
• Shoot to destroy cards and increase your score.
• Every time you hit a joker you get a random bonus.
• Get more points by completing special achievements (e.g. destroy a card for each suit, destroy an ace...).

The deck
Know your enemy. Different cards have different characteristics:

Rank	Resistance	Score
2	1	2
3	3	5
4	4	9
5	5	14
6	6	20
7	7	27
8	8	35
9	9	44
10	10	54
Jack	13	75
Queen	16	100
King	20	125
Ace	25	150
Joker	1	150

Also, different suits behave differently:
• Clubs have nothing special, they will simply move horizontally and respect the values reported in the table.
• Diamonds will give you more points.
• Hearts have a higher resistance.
• Spades are the only cards that can move diagonally.

Some cards are turned you can discover their characteristic only by hitting them.

Achievements
• Casual: destroy at least one card for each suit.
• Incomplete countdown: destroy at least one card for each number, except for the ace.
• Royal: destroy at least a jack, a queen and a king.
• Aces high: destroy an ace.
• Deck: destroy every kind of card.
• Bronze: get 3 bronze stars.
• Silver: get 3 silver stars.
• Gold: get 3 golden stars.

Bonuses
Every time you destroy a joker you get a random bonus:
• Explosion and invincibility: some cards will explode spontaneously, giving you extra points. When it happens you become invincible for a short time.
• 1 extra life.
• Reload time down: decreases the time required to load bullets.
• Maximum charge up: increases the number of bullets that can be loaded by waiting for some time without shooting.
• Bullets speed up: increases the bullets' speed.
• Bullets number up: adds diagonal bullets.
• Bullets power up: increases the damage dealt by bullets.

Settings
Music and sounds can be disabled during a game by clicking on the icons in the upper left corner.

Credits
This is an improved version of my submission to Kenney Jam 2019 (theme: unlikely combinations). All of the sprites (pictures) were created by Kenney and can be downloaded from kenney.nl.
Music and sounds were created by me.
If you are curious, the original jam version is available here.