Dartlatro

 **Roguelike darts. Points × Rally = Score.**                                                                       
                                                                                                                    
 Throw darts at a full standard dartboard. Build a deck of Special Darts,                                           
 Form Cards, and Mastery Cards that bend the scoring in your favour.                                                
 Clear 8 tournaments of 3 tiers each — every Match comes with a cruel                                               
 House Rule that punishes a different playstyle.                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
 > **This is a first-draft alpha. I built it in ~48 hours with Claude                                               
 > Code (Opus 4.7) — I wrote the design, Claude wrote 100% of the code.                                             
 > I want blunt feedback on the core idea, not polish notes.**                                                      
                                                                                                                    
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 ## What's in it                                                                                                    
   
 - **Full standard dartboard** — 20 segments, doubles, triples, outer bull, bullseye. Every hit scores the real     
 dart value.                                                   
 - **Pull back, release forward** to throw. Direction is your aim; pull distance is your power. Spread means pure   
 skill can never hit the exact same spot twice — you're playing the *expected value* of your throw.                 
 - **Points × Rally = Score.** Each hit adds Points. Special Darts and chains add Rally. Beat the tier target to  advance.                                                                                                           
 - **22 Special Darts** across Common / Uncommon / Rare — Sharpened Tip, Triple Threat, Bullseye Charm, Compound  Shot, Cluster, Wide Board, Pyrotechnic, Lifesaver, and 14 more.                                                    
 - **9 Form Cards** (tarot-style consumables) — Strength raises a segment's face value, Death kills a segment,  Justice / Chariot / Lovers stamp segments for bonus gold / Rally / Points, Wheel of Fortune and The Tower          
 rearrange the board.                                          
 - **5 Mastery Cards** (planet-style consumables) — level up Single / Double / Triple / Outer Bull / Bullseye hit   
 types for the rest of the run.                                                                                     
 - **8 Starter Decks** with perk / flaw tradeoffs: Archer (+1 dart, -1 slot), Rich (+$10, -1 dart), Collector (+1  slot, $0 start), Precision (half-spread, +15% targets), and four more.                                             
 - **8 House Rules** at the top of every Match: The Wall, The Fog, The Eye, The Boot, The Club, The Cheat, The  Leech, The Crone.                                                                                                  
 - **8 Unlockable Board Skins** — Classic, Forest, Amethyst, Gilded, Steel, Velvet, Nebula, Ember. Clear an Ante-8  Match with a deck to unlock its skin.                                                                              
 - **Offline. No ads. No tracking. No IAP.** The whole game is a single self-contained HTML file.                                                                                                                     
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 ## What I'm looking for feedback on                                                                                
   
 1. Does "Balatro scoring on darts" actually read as darts, or does it just feel like find-and-replace?             
 2. Is the pull-back throw satisfying? I'm trying for a "pull back, release forward" feel — not there yet on  desktop trackpad, better on touch.                                                                                 
 3. The 22 Special Darts are the main replay driver. Too many? Too few? Any obvious archetypes missing?  4. Are the House Rules interesting or just annoying?                                                               
 5. Are the 8 starter decks distinct enough or do they collapse into 2-3 actual strategies?                         
                                                                                                                    
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 ## Known rough edges                                                                                               
   
 - Balance is untested past Tournament 3.                                                                           
 - All audio is Web Audio synthesis — no samples (dart thunk is cork + low sine + tip-bite tick; jackpot is  arpeggio + bell cascade).                                                                                          
 - Card art is procedurally drawn in canvas, not hand-illustrated.  - WebView build for Android exists but isn't on Play Store yet.                                                    
                                                                                                                    
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 ## Credits & honest disclosure                                                                                     
   
 - Design direction, playtesting, final calls: me.                                                                  
 - **Code: Claude Code (Opus 4.7) — essentially all of it.** Commits are `Co-Authored-By` Claude throughout; I'm  not hiding it.                                                                                                     
 - Inspiration: Balatro (LocalThunk). The scoring framework is directly theirs. The darts application is mine.                                                                                                                     
 Source: MIT licensed.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                    
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 ## Controls  | Input | Action |                                                                                                 
 |---|---|  | Pull back and release | Throw a dart |                                                                           
 | Tap a card | Select / use |                                 
 | Tap a Form Card, then tap a segment | Apply the card to that segment |                                           
 | ☰ (top right) | Menu · How to play · All Cards catalog · Mute · Exit |                                           
                                                                                                                    
 **Browser:** works in any modern mobile browser. Desktop works too but mobile-touch feel is better. Installs as a  
 PWA if you tap your browser's "Add to Home Screen."