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So i think the effect of card destroy many cards should be cost like "only once per duel of the rest" should be good instead making card that make deadly combo

Are there tools or apps I can use to design card arts because I'm terrible at drawing

To those struggling on finding time for your TCG ir any hobby you want to work on. What I do is wake up super early. Make a cup of coffee and work on it while I drink my coffee. This usually gives me 1-2 hours if I don't get distracted with my phone games. So try that. Wake up w couple of hours before your day actually starts. It has helped me and I'm halfway through the first 2 decks. Mind you I have no drawing skills so I'm using Google and AI for arts but this are place holders. Eventually the art will be original but it is an idea

I have a smaller rarity system, with Common, Rare and Special Rare cards, mainly because the card Rank system is doing a fair amount of heavy lifting. So far, my first major set appears to have the complexity curve you recommend if I do it right. For example, Artemis Response Force is a Rank 3 Monster that lets you add its Attack power to a Monster you control that's come under attack once per turn, and if you want to do it again, you have to take a Monster out of play from the graveyard to do so. This would be a Rare. Another monster, Psy Delta, a Rank 1 Monster, adds a token to itself for each attack it lands, and at 5 tokens, becomes Psy Gamma if it can by summoning from the deck and moving Delta to the graveyard, and Gamma keeps the tokens. Gamma, a Rank 2 Monster, keeps Delta's tokens if it was summoned with this condition, and adds tokens for each monster destroyed. If that counter reaches a max of 10, it gains 60 attack until it's destroyed. Psy Delta would be a Special Rare, and Psy Gamma would be a rare to keep pulling Psy Delta from bumming you out from the effect complexity.

hate to point it out but would that not be the dislike button? cool art and i still liked

Also copy exactly gameplay from another tcg is also red flag

My Red Flag is Lazy, because lazyness destroy creativity

Raging Bolt watching this 😬

The TCG I'm designing uses an "initiative" system to eliminate the blockiness of turn-based play, and when I found out a few days ago that SWU uses a similar mechanic, I briefly balked -- what if I'm accused of copycatting, even though I came up with it before I'd heard of SWU's similar feature -- but the shopkeep who told me this immediately said "just cuz you use one similar mechanic doesn't mean you stole it or it isn't good and original! Make it, and if it's good, people will play!"

So money cards should be high rarity and complex cards Should be lower rarity Mind you after playing Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and cardfight Vanguard my TCG leans between a fusion of vanguard and Yu-Gi-Oh with mana management from duel Masters. Easiest way to introduce new players is release a Fire And electric coded decks, more technical decks should have a different colour mechanic My card game operates on a shield break mechanic and a Ace monster mechanic.

How do I play using these cards plssd tell

Thank you for the great input, that enlighten me.

I had no idea anyone actually unironically enjoyed the boring monotony of grinding

All My cards are trash cards 😅

The thing is: what if that mechanic, item or gimmick is patented by a company? (i.e. I wanted to make a tabletop game with a square board like monopoly. But I can't because the board is patented)

Most games of Alpha Clash TCG I've played, have keept the potential to win alive until quite late. Even if the final Life totals doesn't show it,. That game can quickly shift the initiative, if you over extended or the other player pulls a trick (or a curse) on you.

Yo, targeting a card's rarity sounds crazy. I love it.

So when I was a kid, I grea up in one of those 90's puritanical households. Instead of Magic, Yugioh, or anything of that nature, I had Redemption. Your deck was comprised of offensive heroes and defensive villains (each with their own colored factions) and a resource called Lost Souls. You had to include 1 Lost Soul per so many cards in the deck, and the goal was to win Lost Souls from your opponent. I always liked that idea of having to put your opponent's win condition into your own deck and being forced to play those the moment they entered your hand.

Benny Boy loves the smell of money. He will milk this IP

I really like how this can be a really good game design advice as well as a cooking advice

I'm dating myself a little bit but I love the personalized aspect of decks like in the old DBZ CCG. The two things you played during Setup was your army's flag to let them know what kind of battle they were in for: your Z Fighter, and your Deck Mastery.

"consistency creep" is an interesting idea - Pokemon definitely suffers from that. Nice play.mat, btw.

This is one of the reasons I love using the Deckbuilding Game framework. You get a natural -and noticeable- Beginning, Middle, and End Game flow as more cards are purchased and added to your draw deck.

As mucha as i may disagree in certain aspects of your opinions and suggestions and such due to my own point of view regarding some stuff and all that, i must admit that your videos are really helping me designing my TCG. It's still on development, and i might not have the resources at the moment to bring it to the physical format, but i must show my gratitude towards your work an effort.

Fantastic topic and video,thank you so much!

Fix your Game... Please!

TCG? What T can you do in SNAP??

Ben. Plz fix your game yo. Best game i ever pplayed but cant get cards i want

8 words Max ...hold my 🍺 - Yugioh

This was a really great video. You’ve summarized that talk in a really easy to watch and understand way.

First, thank you for doing this video. His Chef philosophy is how I design games. Once you move past trying to be completely unique you have so many ideas that eventually do become a unique thing. Next you should do a comparison between Pokémon TCG and Pokémon Pocket. Because Pocket feels like a perfect evolution of the original TCG mechanics. 7:10 I think what he was saying is if the feels are both equal, you have not created any new joy. But if you make losing more fun, then it stops being completely zero sum and both players had fun. So yeah, it should be more fun to win but that's just natural to games itself. 11:00 I have tried to embrace the nature of the 8 Words concept. In my TCG (the wrestling game I posted some of my cards for in your Discord), I use keywords and cycles to lessen that burden. If you make a cycle that are all kinda wordy, but they all do effectively the same thing. Then your players only really need to learn one to know all N cards in the cycle. Mine has a cycle that plays an attack from your discard based on its target (Head, Arms, Legs, Torso). Each card functions the same just playing the attack with their matching Target. 16:50 when it comes to luck vs skill I find a few games interesting on this front. I've mentioned them many times in my comments because I think they aren't talked about enough. Star Wars CCG (Decipher) and WWE Raw Deal are both Very Low Luck and High Skill games. What's interesting about these two in this way is they're both deck as life games. The low luck comes from how much searching and deck manipulation are in both games. You start with many cards on table, in SWCCG those are typically pulled from your deck to start. Both lowering the variance because of deck thinning, but ensuring you always have the same cards to start. I often say that these two are the Chess of TCGs. There is as little randomness as you can get with a TCG, putting all the emphasis on skill because you won't get a God Hand every time, but you know you'll get these N cards every game due to the mechanics of the cards that start in play.

I was teaching Flesh & Blood at the intro event of my LGS. I've played for about 8 months vs their 0. I lost every game bar 1 and it was so much fun seeing them all win... no i still haven't lived down the shame of teaching & loosing at the same time haha

Rules are made to be broken. A creative new tcg is better than a refurbished mtg/pokemon, etc. I dont see the point of trying to imitate what works for others. Rather, make your own.

I remember losing to my friend 60 times in a row in Smash Ultimate. Once I beat him one time, I never lost to that specific character ever again when he used them. I was using Wii Fit Trainer and he used Captain Falcon

The Luck/Skill scale slide is a big deal. I respect Chess as a classic strategy game, but I don't play it. Why? It's solved. It has a movement-as-combat system, you set up the board the same way every time, and to play it well you have to memorize. I prefer play experiences that force you to adapt at least a little bit. Don't want the result to all come down to RNG, that's the inferior end of the spectrum for me, but if the result is decided before I play a single card, I haven't had the enjoyment of making intelligent decisions and attempting to pursue an outcome.

I pride myself on sharpening my design skills, but it helped to remember that players are usually in it for the emotional ride. Logic can't be everything.

I have recently seen a few homebrew TCGs and Lorcana for example where they have gotten rid of killing and lowering people's health. Where the alternative is Victory points or something similar. So, the loser doesn't "lose" they just got less victory points. If you make a game with 2 out of 3 wins are necessary or more. Then you can play many games without the feeling of losing.