Chlorophyll Clash

A little gardening. A little grafting. A very unfriendly botanist.

Chlorophyll Clash is a single-player, turn-based card duel where your plants stay on the battlefield, protect you, and fight your rival’s garden.

Spend Sap to summon plants, combine their abilities through grafting, and choose your attacks. Use Pruning Shears to damage an enemy plant or Compost to draw more cards. Your Shovel lets you return a plant to your hand—but its graft is discarded, so dig carefully!

Defeat the rival botanist before they defeat you.

How to play

• Summon: drag a plant card onto an empty plot on your side.
• Graft: drag a different plant species onto one of your plants that has no graft. It gains the new ability, without extra stats or healing.
• Attack: click one of your ready plants, then an enemy plant. When the rival’s field is empty, attack their botanist.
• Use Tricks: hover over a card to see its effect and valid targets, then drag it to play.
• Shovel: click Shovel, then one of your plants. Costs 1 Sap, once per turn.
• Cancel: press Esc or use Cancel selection.

Newly summoned plants can defend immediately, but must wait until your next turn to attack. You can also play cards by clicking the card and then its target.

Browser play

Designed for a desktop browser with a mouse. Fullscreen is recommended for readability. Click Start duel to begin; music and sound settings are available in the game.

About the project

My first game, made with Godot for Jame Gam #61: Botany + Shovel. This is a jam prototype, and feedback on clarity, difficulty, and card interactions is welcome!

Credits and development

Card illustrations: Caro Asercion and Delapouite via Game-icons.net, licensed under CC BY 3.0, adapted with transparent backgrounds and tinting.

Background: Kenney’s Pattern Pack, CC0, recolored and tiled.

Development used AI assistance for code. 

The current card illustrations and background use the credited third-party assets above.