You're the boss, not the hero!

Hi, I am PixelPrimacy! I am a solo indie developer working on my first major game *Who’s the Boss Now?*—- a Slay the Spire-inspired deckbuilder where you play as the boss trying to survive a dungeon raid. 

I started development in Godot 4.3 and moved to 4.4 which is the current game engine i am using. I started development on 3/9/25 for the Lil Guy Game Jam.

In *Who’s the Boss Now?* instead of being the hero, you’re the one defending the dungeon. Defend your lair and move through the enemy raid to reach and defeat the raid leader to break the raid and defend your dungeon. 

Think Slay the Spire, but reversed – you build your deck as the villain. 

The game so far…

~ Three bosses to choose from (though they differ only slightly right now)

~ A turn-based card-driven combat system with working enemy AI

~ A card and gold reward system

~ Multiple enemy types

~  Status effects (Rage, Lay bare)

~ A map system with battle, shop (does not have a working shop yet), treasure (no treasure yet), and funeral pyre nodes to heal you through out your battle to defend your lair.

~ Deck view and card tooltips fully implemented

Known bugs..

~If you are using a single target cards and do not hit an enemy you lose the card and the mana (soft skill issue) 

~Sometime the intents are wrong (the icons over the enemies heads will show block and the will attack and show attack and then block. Still trying to puzzle this out.)

~The statuses/status cards are still in development and rarely work well.

Right now I’m refining the status system and smoothing the transition between battles and the rewards. It’s working great now — I just finished debugging the map flow.

What’s Next? More content: statuses, modifiers, cards, balancing, building the shop, treasure rooms and playtesting. Adding more enemies and elite squad leaders(mini bosses that could drop rare loot)

Have you guys heard of any other deckbuilders where you play as the villain?

I’d love any feedback — especially on mechanics you wish more deckbuilders had.

I stream development of this game and others for game jams on twitch.  https://www.twitch.tv/pixelprimacy