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alexissara · 1 year

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My Experience With TCGs

Card games are one of my favorite mediums for games, I've always loved cards and collected all sorts as a kid, Digimon, Neopets, Pokemon, Yugioh and more. I've also always been designing card games, generally the rules were just something for me and my siblings to enjoy our big mix of cards or custom cards I made by cutting out art from magazines and instruction manuals for games. So now I am working on designing a game that is actually playable and fun for everyone, Soul Of The Hero. I've been working on this for years and It's changed formats a few times over that. However, with it's current design I do think it has the legs to finally do everything I want it to do. To get to this point I did a ton of card game research, I've looked at dead and alive card games, games I play all the time and games I'd never play competitively to really get to the heart of what makes them fun, special, and great.

Yugioh

Yu-gi-oh is a game I played competitively for years and have kept up with for most the time even after I quit playing competitively. There has been little blank spots but it's a game I am deeply familiar with. Which is why in studying yugioh, I found not a lot to learn from in a positive way, it was mostly a lot of what not to do. Yugioh has been improving as a game since they left behind anime tie ins and focused on making the competitive game it's own thing. However, the game is a bit of a mess, a fun mess but it doesn't really feel like something that I want to emulate.

Still that is an important part of the process of making something and I am sure years of playing Yu-gi-oh will somehow show in the final production of Soul Of The Hero. I love Yu-gi-oh, I just also think it's a mess and probably not worth diving into ATM.

Cardfight!! Vangaurd

This game is one that fascinates me always. It always felt like this might be the best designed card game around. Until the D series every card was a resource in such a perfect way that truly made Vanguard stand out from every other card game. There wasn't a lot of dead cards, there was less useful cards but thanks to shield values and boost every card can do something, every card is an important resource.

This is a game haunted by terrible management which really holds back it's potential to soar but when I am working on card games, I think about how this games so tightly designed. Having cards all have multiple uses means your players are never drawing a card and utterly dreading it, they might not prefer it, it might mean their going to lose, but especially in the early game every card can be used for something.

Digimon

This game has one of the most fascinating resource systems. You have a rather wide pool of resources you can use but the more you use the more your opponent gets for free. It's a genuine travesty that this game is utterly fucked for Color Blind players. artistically this game really is top shelf which is really impressive given Digimon's previous TCG outings were some of the ugliest games ever printed. The actual flow of play is also really great, it really captures Digimon as a series while making an engaging set of gameplay. It's a perfect use of Digimon for a game.

The biggest thing the Digimon TCG inspires me about is trying to bring out a unique identity through mechanics, to have mechanics that simply scream, this is my game, the simple act of using them is recreating the essence of it.

Pokémon

The Pokémon TCG is a strange and unique beast. I've played it a few times in my life and I've grow to really appreciate the game more as it's improved over time. The card games ability to draw massive amounts of cards, do big time disruptions and has totally unique mechanics. I love how it has a lot of mechanics each of which can give a bit more character to each creature. It's a card game that really makes use of every inch of space of it's design to give every card a unique essence.

Something I found enrapturing and I am taking into consideration is the Rapid Strike mechanic. It was just printed on the card art, like a little stamp and it becomes this key symbol and something that there is a lot of support built around. It's not something for so early in game design but it might be a better way of doing like Archetype titles then having every card be called "Darkest Warrior Knight" then name or whatever the fuck. I also really love how able you are to dive into your resources and think that is such a fun point of design.

Sentinels Of The Multiverse

I love playing co-op and this game is one I've sunk upwards of 300 hours on. This is a game I just a blast to play despite it many of problems. This is the game that got me thinking about two v two card games in a serious way and not as a tacked on extra mode.

It's team based play is also something I am looking to when I am looking at making a purely co-op mode for my game because I think it clearly does a lot really well in making fun challenges for a team to fight with creative decks.

Fire Emblem Cipher

This game really pushed me and inspired my design further. Fire Emblem Cipher's actual card design is just, gosh, breath taking in the way it communicates so much visually about characters very quickly and how those things about the character can then be brought back into the mechanics. A lot of games have lots of little flavor information about cards that sometimes get used as mechanics but this is so quickly visually communicated all while being colorblind accessible.

It's a shame this game never got a non Japanese release and that it died shortly after Three Houses release. I have not got a lot of play experience because of that but just reading translated cards and seeing the design is a major design inspiration.

Magic The Gathering

This is the classic TCG but it is also one I think is lacking to me. The act of playing down Mana, it simply does not jell with me. The methodical play of MTG is clearly a ton of people's thing but it is not mine. What I can appreciate is the modern exploration of aesthetics and themes they've been delving into. The mish mash of settings and styles makes the game instantly a bit more captivating.

I think Magic is another game where what I'm taking from it is mostly "what not to do". Like don't sell proxy packs for tons of money but also like just design stuff I don't really jell with. That is one of the best ways to learn afterall.

Wixoss

Sometimes something that looks bad can inspire you. I've not played this game but it just, really doesn't look like a game I'd enjoy, maybe I Would but until there is some kind of digital way to play I probably won't bother. I love girls and playing all girl decks but it seems maybe a bit too horny vibes with young characters to be a thing I wouldn't really wanna touch without some assurance about the game overall.

I have no idea how Piece cards work in Wixoss but what I can say is just the vibe of the piece cards inspired a whole new mechanic for me. Sometimes the vibes are strong enough.

Weiss Schwarz

I wish this game was more exciting but it is painfully boring for the concept of "a bunch of random ass licenses fighting against each other". The games far too limited in deck building with ugly ass screen shots and promotional arts used to make the cards. It simply is terrible only worsened by the like terrible clash of some of the IPs.

However, the concept of a bunch of clashing universe has always appealed to me from like the first time I played X-men vs Street Fighter on the playstation one and this card game reaffirmed it is possible to do it and get people to want to check it out.

Shadowverse

The app had fallen onto my phone several times but it wasn't until I played the game on my phone that I started to really understand Shadowverse. The game could be called anime Hearthstone but even if that was at it was it would be way better then that game cuz it's so ugly, I much prefer the art style of Shadowverse.

The gameplay however has a really exciting Evolve mechanic that stands out among all the card games. The ability to buff any card even if for some it is just a stat boost as a core mechanic is just super cool. I think it shows that there is so many dynamic ways to make cards variable resources.

Legends Of Runeterra

Who would have expected to fall in love with this game so hard. This might be the most interactive card game ever created. This game is strictly digital and it would be impossible to work into a physical game in any good way but that's great, it's using the medium it's in to it's fullest. Creating cards, adding keywords, the push and pull of the more you do the more your foe can do, it's a really really intensely fascinating card game.

I think the champion system is where I am really looking at the game for what I could pull from what I am doing. I think having conditions to unlock a stronger version of a card that a deck can centralize around is really neat. I don't know if that literally will work in what I am doing but I think I am at least looking at the heart.

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mrrempton · 8 months

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From Concept to Card: How to Design an Epic TCG Set

Have you ever wanted to design your own TCG set or expansion, but didn't know where to start? In this video I break down the steps used by Wizards of the Coast to design their TCG sets, from initial concept to finished set.

Transcript: What’s up, designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. It’s been a while, but I’m finally back, and I’m really excited about today’s topic! Whether you are designing your own trading card game, or just a fan who wants to know more about how these games are made, today’s video is for you. Today, I’ll be going through the steps of how to design a TCG set – from initial concept to…

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#Game Design #games #Magic: The Gathering #Pokemon #rempton #rempton games #remptongames #TCG #TCG design #Trading Card Game #Trading Card Game Design

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prokopetz · 11 days

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I love the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG because it sounds something that a person who doesn't know much about TCGs would make up in order to parody the medium. Like, what if there was a TCG that hated keywording and just stuck a full paragraph of rules on the card whenever a slightly complicated effect comes up, except it has no editorial consistency, so seemingly standardised effects may in fact have multiple variants with subtly different wording which causes each variant to resolve completely differently in specific edge cases? And also, judges' rulings at major tournaments are considered to be precedent-setting for future tournaments even if their conclusions are not subsequently incorporated into the rules, like some sort of TCG Supreme Court, but the lack of keywording and inconsistent phrasing mean that whether a given ruling on card A applies to card B is based on a subjective assessment of "substantial similarity" which is, itself, subject to precedent-setting rulings, such that knowing with certainty what a card actually does may require a complete knowledge of its history of use in tournament play? That'd be fucked up, right? Just kidding, it's not hypothetical at all – it's fucking Yu-Gi-Oh.

#gaming #tcgs #ccgs #yu-gi-oh #game design #swearing

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pedrogferreira · 2 months

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Card I designed and illustrated. featuring Queen Annalise in both her solid version, and her not so solid version.

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#artists on tumblr #dark fantasy #fantasy art #armor design #traditional art #watercolor #bloodborne fanart #bloodborne #bloodborne art #annalise #queen of the vilebloods #tcg #card art #magic the gathering

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adobe-outdesign · 9 months

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Another little Pokemon TCG promo set I just learned existed is the Futsal 2020 cards, a collaboration between TPC and the Football (Soccer) Association:

Pokemon play sports :)

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon cards #pokemon tcg #pikachu #eevee #scorbunny #sobble #grookey #outdesign posts things #not as good as the scream promos but I actually really like that soccer ball design

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trainerjoshie · 3 months

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Pokémon TCG SV Temporal Forces (2024) Snom illustration by N-DESIGN Inc. ❄️❄️❄️

#N-DESIGN Inc.#pokémon #official art #card art #pokémon trading card game #tcg #pokemon #full card art #temporal forces full card art #temporal forces #snom #pokémon scarlet and violet

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jarbaje-dump · 10 days

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prototype cards for a TCG project i made for uni (+ card back!) tusked goatman illustration under cut :)

the goatman was a super fun forced perspective test with hyper-janky anatomy that turned out... really pleasing to me. fun project all around! i'm not super great with balancing game design, but i love coming up with ideas and visualizing them

#my art #artists on tumblr #sketch #illustration #concept art #creature design #tcg #jarbaje art #tw body horror #tw vomit #tw bugs #tw parasite

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alexissara · 2 years

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Finding The Queerness

Having worked on all sorts of projects an exciting and fun part of making art is studying it. This really hit me working on my card game Soul Of The Hero I was finishing a draft of the core mechanics of the game when I thought, this isn't gay enough. Like a TCG style game in my head could only ever be so gay but then I thought, fuck that I can push further. So I took an approach to look at other card games, what made me go "oh that's gay" and as well as thinking of ways to use cards to replicate queer experiences through mechanics.

Ultimately, I combined my studying of card games and their mechanics with my queer knowledge and experience as well as studying ways that these things have been conveyed through mechanics before in other mediums. I think it's going to lead to a really cool system where it's really clear that these bitches are gay when you play a card and not just because there is art of girls holding hands or a transition timeline told through evolving power levels of cards but through the act of play without needing to engage with the art on the cards you can get a queer experience.

I think this paired with my work on Thirsty Sword Lesbians have been got me really looking more critically at things I take for granted in art like mechanics in SRPGs and stuff and going, "is this kinda fruity?" I think I am going to be on a new level of lesbian excellence in my future projects as I take everything I've learned in finding queerness in mechanics and in art and taking time to understand how it is conveyed and how it can better be conveyed.

#ttrpg design #card game design #TCG design #design #tcg #ttrpg #queer art #lesbian art

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prokopetz · 6 months

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Shout-out to TCGs with such rigorous keywording that even the word "card" has a specific definition and each card is obliged to explicitly tell you whether or not the card you're holding in your hand is a card.

#gaming #card games #tcgs #game design #keywording #nomenclature

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adobe-outdesign · 7 months

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you guys wanna have the Pokemon TCG ruined forever for you

so here's the back of an (English) Pokemon card, right

Here's the thing: the Pokeball is rendered incorrectly. In every other medium, the button in the middle stays with the red upper part, not the white part on the bottom. Even the illustrations on the TCG cards themselves get this right:

The problem is that it's hard to update the card backs because it could tip people off as to which cards are the newer ones during gameplay, so now there are just thousands of English Pokemon cards with an error on them that you will now never unsee

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon cards #pokemon tcg #outdesign posts things #if anyone was wondering the original japanese backs were wrong as well but they actually fixed them around 2002 #for the record the OG japanese backs are the best back design they've ever had

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