What's up, punks! 👋🏽

We're doing a playtest during Deckbuilders Fest! You can try out the game from May 4th to May 11th!

We've set up a bunch of different ways for you to give us your bug reports and feedback. We have an in-game bug reporter (Press the button or \[F8] to pull it up), you can make a new post in our steam forums, chat to us in our Discord[discord.com], or if you're rather just write for our eyes only, we have a short playtest form[forms.gle] too!

It hasn't been long since we've started properly working on Lucky Punk (we talked about it in the last devlog), so it's a bit bare bones, but we're happy enough with the state of the game to test out the base mechanics. That means a lot of stuff is missing, but we want to make sure that the base is already fun without all the extra stuff and give it to folks so if there's any changes to make, we catch it early.

So what's actually in the playtest is:

• 3 characters, 2 to unlock. (Lucky Punk, Prophet and Little Witch)

• 39 cards (only 2 with card art), with 6 basic strategies

• 4 different type of card shops

• 4 areas, split between 2 acts

• 5 basic enemy types (Tank, Defensive, Normal, Offensive, Glass Cannon) that with a basic scaling that depends on area

• 12 bosses (3 per area)

• 7 events

• Basic VFX/SFX

• Basic run structure

• Basic Quality of Life options

• Basic tutorialisation

Basically, you can play the game and get to the end of act 2. That means in one run, you'll fight up to 4 bosses, you'll get to deckbuild and try out a strategy and understand the rhythm of the game and hopefully, win or fail spectacularly, having a lot of fun as you play.

So much. Here's what we already know we want to change:

We basically have none right now. All of the cards start unlocked in the playtest. All you do is just spend the supplies you have to unlock a character and they unlock way too cheaply, it's just so you can try out the different playstyles and see how different they are.

We'll be adding ways to actually slowly get more cards to your card pool, ways for you to manage the card pool for a single run, ways for you to modify your runs (so it's not always the same in the beginning, which it is now), etc.

That's right, you'll have THREE options of what you can do in a round. Maybe even five or six?! Consumables are really important in letting you wriggle your way out of tough situations and are certainly going to be in the game but we wanted to have the pure run first, so we didn't implement it for this version.

So you already have a taste of the run structure during the playtest, and the randomisation is relatively simple and doesn't change between the acts yet. You just defeat two bosses and are asked, do you want to continue or not? Do you want to hedge your bets? Do you want to push your luck?

We want to make the map feel better and want to to scale the run into forever. Obviously at some point, it's just a victory lap where you see how far you go, but that's also fun.

"Block" preventing damage? Boooring. "Poison" doing damage over time? Sure, whatever.

What about playing a card that doubles the progress and effort value of your next played card? Yes, sure it means you just screwed up your odds for the next draw, but the windfall of progress could be massive.

or using a card to repeatedly mark the back of your other cards, you dirty cheater, giving you information about what the next card could be, so you can confidently discard cards off the top of your deck for extra progress?

or gaining "Debt" and Borrowing from Yourself so you gain "Underkill" equal to your debt, and then you File for Bankruptcy so you lose all your Debt and deal damage equal to the Debt lost, ending the fight and getting enough cash via Overkill that you still make sweet profit?

Yes, I am aware of how deranged I sound.

More cards, more enemies, more bosses, more events, more art, more visual and audio feedback... A glossary to look through all of the stuff you've unlocked, quality of life features like more tooltips so you can actually see what Cursed cards actually are before you get one. (Sorry that we couldn't fit that one in before the playtest)

As you can see, we have a lot of stuff in our minds. We're still figuring out the shape and size of Lucky Punk that we'll be releasing, but we'll constantly update you on what we're making and do regular playtests too.

We'll always tell you of big public playtests via Steam news, but we will probably do some more smaller playtests too, and if you're interested in joining those, we'll talk about them on Discord[discord.com].

Have fun with the playtest, give us feedback via the form[forms.gle], or however you want.

Peace out, ✌🏽

Brenden

What's up, punks! 👋🏽

It's Brenden from Green Parrot Games. I'm the game designer.

You're reading this, presumably because you want to know what's up with us. With the game. With the page.

Well I'm writing this on the 29th of April, 2026 and basically, we decided to shadow drop the Steam Page 🤘. Soft and floppy launched it so we can get feedback and we can start a playtest next week, from the 4th to the 11th of May, alongside the Deckbuilder Fest. There's not even a real trailer yet, just me nattering over a bunch of footage.

But the point is that you can see what we're about. What Lucky Punk is about (which, if you don't actually know, I'm impressed that you found this and love that you're reading it, but you probably should watch the gameplay explainer or read the Steam Page first.)

And this... well, this devlog is just more of that.

Green Parrot Games consists of these three foolhardy, hopeful humans, based in Cologne, Germany.

Tom Bockhorn has been programming both in and outside of the games industry for over 9 years and he's already started his own games company once before, TxK Gaming, that made the VR game Dungeon Full Dive.

Sarah Burrini has worked on animation, illustration and comics for over 15 years. She's an award winning comic artist, and a straight up pioneer in the German webcomics scene who self publishes her own comics.

Brenden Gibbons (hey, that's me!) is a game & narrative designer with over 10 years of experience. He's worked on an eclectic range of games from Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, to Say No! More, Last Day of June, and more.

Anyway. We decided to start this company together and we've been properly working on this game for like, as of the time of writing, two months. We got some cash from our regional games fund (Shout out to the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW) and our aim is to make vibrant, loud and high personality games, and Lucky Punk is our debut game!

We're also getting supported by Fourth Moon Games who are helping us with some marketing, product, and administrative paperwork (THANK GOD). German Business Paperwork is like English Business Paperwork but has absolutely massive words like Arbeitgeberbrutto, Stellungnahmeformular and Tragfähigkeitsbescheinigungen. ☠️☠️☠️

It's me. It's my fault. Hello, I'm Brenden and I'm a card game sicko.

I've been playing Magic the Gathering since I was 13 and while I'm now only on digital cardboard crack, I do still keep a single card in my wallet from back then. I also absolutely love games like Dream Quest, Slice & Dice, and StarVaders. (Of course I'm playing Slay the Spire 2, but that doesn't need mentioning, does it?) I'm just a big sicko for deck builders, card games and roguelikes. I am the type of person who knows and prefers the "Berlin Interpretation" roguelikes and still occasionally do bad runs on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. This is my burden.

And here we were, trying to figure out what the debut project should be. We're thinking something that can be done in less than a year. Let's bash out something quick, test out how we work with each other, pick something we can confidently execute on with our 35 years of collective experience. So I just reached into this abyss bountiful well of card game knowledge.

Anyway, the real point I'm trying to make is this. There's this incredible moment at high level play of card games. It's when you know just how razor thin the margin of error is between winning and losing is and even though you're bad at maths, you’ve mathed it all out in your head, but all you’re left with is luck and agonising over an incredibly simple decision as if it was your least favourite kidney stone.

I wanted to share that moment with you! 💖

We've got some board games that absolutely rule at highlighting this moment (like all-time classic Quacks of Quedlinburg) but there's not a lot of pure push-your-luck video games. Yeah, okay, there's a few, Party House in UFO50, Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers, etc but there's room here. Fertile ground. and I realised what I needed to make this moment more accessible for lower level players.

Perfect Information.

Who wants to do maths? It's a digital game! Let's just throw Into The Breach into this stew and give you all the tools you need to access that beautiful moment as many times as possible.

With that, it felt like a proper, whole concept. Everything clicked and my gut feeling told me that this was gonna be great. I pitched it and we went forward with this idea, I did some paper prototyping on Tabletop Simulator as we figured out all of the funding stuff and most importantly, all of the German business paperwork (Tragfähigkeitsbescheinigungen. ☠️ It's 29 characters long!!). After all of that, we finally started development proper.

And now... we're here! With a Steam Page!

And a playtest that will be available on the 4th of May!

Crazy.

Anyway, I've nattered on too long. I need to get back to making the game.

Thanks for reading. We have a Discord[discord.gg] where you can natter back to us and you can watch us squawk about on TikTok[www.tiktok.com], YouTube, BlueSky[bsky.app] and Insta[www.instagram.com]. If you want to try guessing what the magic card in my wallet is, I started playing during Time Spiral.

And since it's this Friday, Happy International Worker's Day, solidarity to all workers out there. 🌹

Peace out, ✌🏽

Brenden