Honestly your a huge inspiration for me. I've stopped making content i was genuinely unhappy with cause you showed me that turning a passion like card gane making into an actual channel isn't nerdy or too specific. It's completely possible. I'm now in the gameplay testing stages of making my tcg "Champions of Gaia". Thank you so much.
@@teagledabeagle that’s great to hear! Wear your nerdiness with pride and if something is your passion you should never hide it, good luck with champions of Gaia, it sounds like an awesome game!
@@ChaosGalaxyTCG One suggestion is a Realm card. Basically like stadiums from Pokémon TCG, but the realms add to a specific type of card So an ocean realm would boost ocean cards. You could also make combo realms like an oasis which boosts both desert and ocean but less. Also only one realm at a time
Zach your artstyle is 80% of what keeps me interested, it reminds me so much of my own and your universe and characters are beyond both interesting and amazing!
Tip, you can cheat with digital! Something I like doing is scanning my lineart from paper (or just from photos), importing that to the drawing software, then using a few modifiers like Threshold or Exposure to make it more black/white, then color it digitally. You could also start digital, print, do traditional on top (say, using those white ink dispensers) then scan it again. There's lots of fun to be had.
Not sure if this is where you look for ideas, but I'm gonna write 'em here anyway. Apologies in advance if you've already talked about this and I missed it, but one thing I noticed about this game (which I found today and binged, lol) is that it doesn't have any instant speed/quickplay interaction where you can do things on your opponent's turn. I know that not all tcg's have that, but the amount of player expression increases drastically once you have that sort of interaction. And with you also needing water to have a power-up, I think that playing at instant speed could be water's "thing". Maybe because I'm MTG coded, but water feels fitting to be the interaction color as it's free-flowing and reactive. Example card: Effector (Instant) - Kill an Opponent's Effector before its effect resolves. Your Evolver loses 100 Power until end of turn. You could have these quickplay effects on Defenders as well and do things like stop an attack, force discards, etc. Biggest downside of this sort of interaction is how much more difficult solitairing playtests are... Completely unrelated side thought for the future - a fun idea for the Hell element is a focus on self-sacrifice. Like Evolvers that want to be sacrificed and Defenders that can get cheated into your discard pile to get cheated into play later.
The comments is always where i look for ideas! Next episode im going to look at interactive cards and different type of effectors, I just wanted to nail down the basic gameplay but I think i've got that sorted now so time to step it up next episode! Love this idea for the water element's style too, such a nice link, thanks!
The name i went with for my card game was something pretty surface level, "Creatures of Battle" partly cause COB sounds good as an acronym and partly cause it involved creatures, well... battling
I think this goes for anyone who tries to make a homemade tcg that the first thing they stick to are elements, like fire water air earth etc. Which is fine, but really restricts what creatures or cards go into what. Tribes, regions, factions or even your idea of different planets really expand the length of ideas you can really pull from. Great video as always, keep it up 💪
Totalmente de acuerdo con tu comentario, se empieza con los elementos principales pero después puedes hacer volar tu imaginación y crear algo único, expandir más el Lore de tu universo tcg
Damn! Now that you made a setting, imagine having a manga about it. All the creatures suddently get teleported from their own realm to a space between them all, then they're forced to make armies with an extra strong leader (the evolver) and fight against other realms until they claim victory
My favourite series on TH-cam returns. The new artwork looks so good! Retaining your character filled style, but looking cleaner and professional - fantastic. Love the name. Updated dice!!! Yes, really appreciated this! There's a small accessibility issue with the colour of the text background bars for the Evolvers (I hope I've identified and explained that correctly)...I think it's all Evolvers anyway? They have a deep blue background that looked quite dark in the video. Anyway, it clashes with the black text, and whilst that could be solved with white text, I wonder if Evolvers could be more visually distinctive by making that text background itself white? Also the blue perhaps clashes with Water cards a bit. Maybe even some other ways to visually differentiate Evolvers would be appreciated actually and make them seem somehow bigger and more epic than Defenders. As always this feedback is said with love and was really just a very long winded way to say the background was a bit dark 😂 Absolutely LOVING this, I cannot wait to see where it goes next, you're smashing it.
@@rezsnapper thanks for all the feedback! My printer definitely prints the evolver purple a lot darker than it looks on screen, not sure why but I think you’re right! More of a visual difference between evolvers and hell defenders would be good!! Much love
Yes!!! It has a naaaaame!! Oh man, huge fan of the new monsters you've been designing!! And props to stepping out of your comfort zone-I like your art in general, but I can totally see how this new workflow can give you more control over how you want your cards to look like. I think both traditional and digital suit your style well, ultimately! I like that your approach is taking the best of both worlds :)
Heck yeah! Think the main thing is to not come up with the name too early, figure out the vibe / story of the game first then come up with a name that feels right for it!
not to be mean, but the name evoverse kinda sucks. it doesn't hook you in enough, which is something evolvers did, as you say, people love watching stuff evolve
It's cool to see you trying digital art, but I loved your handrawn art. I think in an age of technology and ai, handrawn is much more valuable in my opinion. Either way game looks freaking amazing dude
recently thought of making my own TCG, finished the beta templates of my cards today, and the feeling of doing this is so fun. i will be here for the rest of the ride.
Thanks for this series, Zack!. I've been on and off working on a TCG for a few years, but this series helped me lock in and gave me the much-needed motivation, and now I'm going to start selling packs of my TCG to my friends at school next week! Super excited!
I just want to say that your art really inspire me, and the fact that you really enjoy making your cards and do so much card desings is something I really admire and I wish to so consistent Also, I don't know if you've already answer that question but what do you think about tabletop simulator? I know that the feeling of having your cards physically is way better than play on a digital format, but on phase of so much beta testing and readjust values of your cards I personally think that is much cheaper experiment in tabletop simulator
I have a idea So the card is a small fish and it has the ability/skill to summon another fish card that is bigger and is eating the small fish that summon him (English is my second language)
Great video as always! I recently got into watching your journey towards Evoverse and I ended up watching basically EVERYTHING you have to offer, and I had a blast! It inspired me so much to try to make something new. Thank you so much!
Don't feel self conscious or anything about the way you do digital art, Zach. Ive been using the same technique for the art for the three htcgs ive been working on! This series has been a huge inspiration for the newest of the three tcgs im working on, so thanks a lot, dude! Love your work! 😎👍
The switch from elements to realms also makes the starter decks, Desert and Ocean, more thematically opposed, which is really fun! Maybe there could be a conflict between them in the lore or something...
I think adding search effector cards and draw efrector cards will really help make a satisfying feel to the water deck. Also protecting not just your evolver in a way but also your more powerful monsters: say i could use a card with a taunt ability to be attacked first before my other card which would then survive to the next turn because of the taunt & that could make some prediction plays or such.
Loving the new artwork! If you're hand drawing them anyway to convrrt later on, maybe you could include them as like a "Special Original Illustration Rare" version of the card so that people could flex on their rivals? I think the unboxing experience goes so far with TCGs and getting that super rare card hits different
Love the new art style, probably makes it much easier to do edits to art as well! I still am not convinced about the playing of face-down cards. I can't see why you wouldn't play all cards face down and the fact that it's impossible to verify if someone did or didn't cheat even a few turns later without writing down what die you rolled for each face-down card makes me not sure if it will work in the long run. I do think the complexity it adds is worth thinking about a solution for this problem, maybe you can only have one face down card at a time, and you have to put the die you rolled on the card when you play it? Not sure. (If I missed anything in older videos that nullifies my comment, I apologize!) All this in good faith! Love the videos and have been thoroughly enjoying your journey of creating this game.
Idea for the Ocean Deck: Have an effecter card that is a fishing pole that allows to search a low level ocean card and play it directly onto the field. You said the ocean deck has a lot of low level defenders, maybe this will help with defense in numbers
Dude the digital art looks so good! I love the Karakators! A massive improvement from the original artwork. And I know you listen to the comments for critiques and such so please don’t take this as a bash, but to me, I was wondering if the purple on the stalkers eyes could be lighter or something? I completely missed them when I first saw the artwork lol. It took me a second to realize but at the same time the thought of it not having eyes was kinda cool too lol
Thanks dude!! And I don’t know what it is with my printer but purple seems to come out way darker than it looks on screen, the evolver cars backgrounds look super dark too, not sure what it is but will defo fix it, thanks!
In case you were looking for ideas for a focused playstyle for the water deck maybe having a high tide / low tide duality could be fun or some kind of diving into your deck for a risk reward thing? Anyway i think having a standard cost to play things face down is probably a good way to deal with the issue you had like to olay something face down is equal to your evolvers level but while face down it has the stats of your evolver? Then to flip it face up you pay its cost with a discount equal to your evolvers level.
Ive recently got into board games more card like board games like ascension or the star wars deckbuilder and i really want to make a new one this video is great inspiration (i may or may not use some of your ideas) i also love how a childhood hobby has grown into something this big please continue to make these videos they are a great inspiration and drive to me.
I'm sorry that I'm late today 😅 Love your content! You give me inspirations for stuff to my TCG although i haven't started making it and dont have enough creativity for it
For the karaktor summoner i feel like it would be a fun gimmick if "when you play this card search your deck/hand for a karaktor stalker and place him on the field aswell. Cannot use action cards while both are alive." i forgot what your action cards were called but thats besides the point. I think maybe the power of the karaktor stalker should be increased a bit maybe to balnce the no use of action card effect i mentioned.. heck maybe the no use of action carfs could be a karaktor stalker effect so the summoner doesnt have that big blon of text. As for kazonk i would just keep the death ability where you can ppace down ultimate kazonk
Regarding your game, I have a sugestion that might help with that kind of situation when the games get too one-sided, which would be a way to separate or prioritize protector cards over effect cards. At least at the start of the battle this seems very significant. There were other playtest videos where you could have a entire first hand made of, mostly, effect cards. There are many ways to try to remedy this like; allowing the player to discard their entire hand and draw that same amount at the beginning of the round; letting the player to replace any amount of effect cards with new cards from the deck; shuffling protectors and effect cards separately to guarantee that both players will consistently have 3/4 creatures and 1/2 effect cards at the start of a match; having separate drawing piles for protectors and effect cards. Maybe this also calls out for an ability that allows you to specifically draw the next 2 protectors cards instead of any 2 cards. Thats basically my suggestion. It is not simething specific since this can be done in multiple ways. Cause I feel there are situations that the player needs any protector card to play, but they don't have any that they can play in hand. Anyway, these are just some suggestions to try to remedy a bit of the luck element when drawing the cards. Thanks for reading! 🦀
I don't think there is a problem with your hand drawn art. I just think I may have clashed with the digital card boarders. That said I think it looks super clean now and really nice. Good work!
i feel like maybe the fire one could be called hell, and the one that is currently hell could be called abyss or void also, some sort of glacier/winter/tundra realm could be interesting
11:50 If you want to avoid players being able to cheat with the facedown cards, you can just make it so that the player has to pay for the card when they flip it faceup instead of when its played facedown.
A step into digital art is nice. As someone who- just like yourself- will always prefer traditional art, I can respect the decision. I said it before too, but EVOVerse is a beautiful name. Loving it. I do have to say though, I have some qualms with the playing cards face-down idea. As you stated before about players having the opportunity to cheat, but even then it sort of just feels a little... meh. Like a feature thats just been thrown into the mix of ideas. Personally, I feel like possibly you could incorporate it into a certain Realms playstyle- or even Card abilities. The Sea Realm for example could specialise in making its card "DIVE". So when you play a Defender, your opponent can see you haven't cheated and THEN you flip it face-down. While face-down the card is inaccessible. Which you can then use for other card abilities- for example the Sea Realm Evolvers could let you "SURFACE" a face-down card (Flip it back face up) to either attack or defend with. Or have other cards with the same effect, or along those lines. This style of play could even be utilised in the Desert Realm too, tbh. Creatures that burrow into the sand and stuff. This is just my food for thought idea though, either way, loving the progress as always Zack.
I think you should add another mechanic. Like counters, that would allow more ability options. Also you should effects that can be used on both players turns.
@@merton1995 I think so! Although I only plan to make prototypes with the gamecrafter - I want to mass produce the game through a printing factory, and I’ll document the full process!
Also, i wanna add context to why yugioh seems to have lost its identity as you put it. This is mainly because instead of all cards being part of the egyptian god based lore each archtype actually HAS its own lore. Some are even connected. You can look up videos on yt that have really thematic explanations for each archtype's lore.
Yugioh moved from the whole series being loosely based of Egypt mythos to now each "Archetype" has its own lore. Konami has started a new animation studio that seems like its going to animate some of those stories.
As always a really great video. 💪 I would be interested in a broader marketing toadmap and if you will consider something like kickstarter. If it isnt too early for that🧐
I've been loving this series, and I'm seriously looking forward to playing in the future. But I have to say I am just not a fan of the steal coin. I find it to be a clunky execution of a reasonable idea. As one of your friends commented in a previous episode: the stealing of the dice but providing of the coin is confusing. Just my thoughts , loving everything else
good work man, i could NEVER draw as good as you, but i think that some of those basic creatures are to complicated in comparison to the others like trunkster and aquakraka. to me that just seems a bit odd
Huge coincidence I’m making a game called elementals. It’s different from yours but I used your card templete with out knowing you made a game called elementals
I would say you started your journey at the perfect time, yugioh cards at their earliest we're cartoonish, silly or downright serious. Nowadays it's all about waifu's or something. Nothing against that, but i'm happy that this early yugioh flavor transformed into the games you have now. I too yearn for the days of puns and jokes in my cards.
I like your art style and monsters design. I'm really tired of "professional art" and realism. It's almost everywhere. It's sometimes has boring character designs imho. I like "cartoon style" more, it has more spirit of imagination and creativity ❤ ⭐
Honestly your a huge inspiration for me. I've stopped making content i was genuinely unhappy with cause you showed me that turning a passion like card gane making into an actual channel isn't nerdy or too specific. It's completely possible. I'm now in the gameplay testing stages of making my tcg "Champions of Gaia". Thank you so much.
@@teagledabeagle that’s great to hear! Wear your nerdiness with pride and if something is your passion you should never hide it, good luck with champions of Gaia, it sounds like an awesome game!
@@ChaosGalaxyTCG One suggestion is a Realm card. Basically like stadiums from Pokémon TCG, but the realms add to a specific type of card So an ocean realm would boost ocean cards. You could also make combo realms like an oasis which boosts both desert and ocean but less. Also only one realm at a time
I agree yes to realm cards
The digital art is a major improvement. Well done sir.
I love the new art style. It’s keep the unique, personal, and intimate style while making it look much much more clean. Great job as always
That was my aim, thanks!
Zach your artstyle is 80% of what keeps me interested, it reminds me so much of my own and your universe and characters are beyond both interesting and amazing!
Tip, you can cheat with digital!
Something I like doing is scanning my lineart from paper (or just from photos), importing that to the drawing software, then using a few modifiers like Threshold or Exposure to make it more black/white, then color it digitally.
You could also start digital, print, do traditional on top (say, using those white ink dispensers) then scan it again. There's lots of fun to be had.
Absolutely love this series and your art style!
@@Kumquat9701 thank you!!!
Not sure if this is where you look for ideas, but I'm gonna write 'em here anyway. Apologies in advance if you've already talked about this and I missed it, but one thing I noticed about this game (which I found today and binged, lol) is that it doesn't have any instant speed/quickplay interaction where you can do things on your opponent's turn. I know that not all tcg's have that, but the amount of player expression increases drastically once you have that sort of interaction. And with you also needing water to have a power-up, I think that playing at instant speed could be water's "thing". Maybe because I'm MTG coded, but water feels fitting to be the interaction color as it's free-flowing and reactive.
Example card: Effector (Instant) - Kill an Opponent's Effector before its effect resolves. Your Evolver loses 100 Power until end of turn.
You could have these quickplay effects on Defenders as well and do things like stop an attack, force discards, etc.
Biggest downside of this sort of interaction is how much more difficult solitairing playtests are...
Completely unrelated side thought for the future - a fun idea for the Hell element is a focus on self-sacrifice. Like Evolvers that want to be sacrificed and Defenders that can get cheated into your discard pile to get cheated into play later.
The comments is always where i look for ideas! Next episode im going to look at interactive cards and different type of effectors, I just wanted to nail down the basic gameplay but I think i've got that sorted now so time to step it up next episode! Love this idea for the water element's style too, such a nice link, thanks!
The name i went with for my card game was something pretty surface level, "Creatures of Battle" partly cause COB sounds good as an acronym and partly cause it involved creatures, well... battling
I think this goes for anyone who tries to make a homemade tcg that the first thing they stick to are elements, like fire water air earth etc. Which is fine, but really restricts what creatures or cards go into what. Tribes, regions, factions or even your idea of different planets really expand the length of ideas you can really pull from. Great video as always, keep it up 💪
@@sourdoughtv well put! A cool premise elevates a game in so many levels beyond just ‘categories of cards’!
Totalmente de acuerdo con tu comentario, se empieza con los elementos principales pero después puedes hacer volar tu imaginación y crear algo único, expandir más el Lore de tu universo tcg
Technically elements can be just about whatever you want, it's just most people default to the Fire Water Grass thing when they don't have to.
trust me, your art is perfect
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Damn! Now that you made a setting, imagine having a manga about it. All the creatures suddently get teleported from their own realm to a space between them all, then they're forced to make armies with an extra strong leader (the evolver) and fight against other realms until they claim victory
This gives me so much inspiration for my TCG Nokelect
My favourite series on TH-cam returns.
The new artwork looks so good! Retaining your character filled style, but looking cleaner and professional - fantastic.
Love the name.
Updated dice!!! Yes, really appreciated this!
There's a small accessibility issue with the colour of the text background bars for the Evolvers (I hope I've identified and explained that correctly)...I think it's all Evolvers anyway? They have a deep blue background that looked quite dark in the video. Anyway, it clashes with the black text, and whilst that could be solved with white text, I wonder if Evolvers could be more visually distinctive by making that text background itself white? Also the blue perhaps clashes with Water cards a bit. Maybe even some other ways to visually differentiate Evolvers would be appreciated actually and make them seem somehow bigger and more epic than Defenders.
As always this feedback is said with love and was really just a very long winded way to say the background was a bit dark 😂
Absolutely LOVING this, I cannot wait to see where it goes next, you're smashing it.
Oh I forgot to say I also loved the vignette colour that was on a few of the cards, that looked great.
@@rezsnapper thanks for all the feedback! My printer definitely prints the evolver purple a lot darker than it looks on screen, not sure why but I think you’re right! More of a visual difference between evolvers and hell defenders would be good!! Much love
They look SO GOOD -your art style is great, and I think it lends it self very well to your digitized/hand-drawn versions
Always a good day when Zack posts a video
@@elijah_link6267 😎😎😎
I love it how it looks like you a lot of effort and some of them are goofy
@@Kcstidious creating goofiness is my main talent 🤪
@@ChaosGalaxyTCG you inspired me so much I was that person who woke up at four in the morning to see you
Yes!!! It has a naaaaame!!
Oh man, huge fan of the new monsters you've been designing!! And props to stepping out of your comfort zone-I like your art in general, but I can totally see how this new workflow can give you more control over how you want your cards to look like. I think both traditional and digital suit your style well, ultimately! I like that your approach is taking the best of both worlds :)
the digital art looks great! I would love to see some more interesting backgrounds, though (even ones that are repeated for multiple cards).
@wynyny yes! I’ll definitely add those later on :)
YAY NEW EPISODE
Let's go 😄
A new video!!!!!!!
New video wooo!
Finally, the video where you come up with a name. Always wanted to see what you would name this game, and seeing the process.
Heck yeah! Think the main thing is to not come up with the name too early, figure out the vibe / story of the game first then come up with a name that feels right for it!
@@ChaosGalaxyTCG Alright.
not to be mean, but the name evoverse kinda sucks. it doesn't hook you in enough, which is something evolvers did, as you say, people love watching stuff evolve
It's cool to see you trying digital art, but I loved your handrawn art. I think in an age of technology and ai, handrawn is much more valuable in my opinion. Either way game looks freaking amazing dude
@@epicunderworlds5693 thanks, and I’ve always agreed! Definitely trying to keep the hand drawn vibe as I digitalise my drawings!
recently thought of making my own TCG, finished the beta templates of my cards today, and the feeling of doing this is so fun. i will be here for the rest of the ride.
Thanks for this series, Zack!. I've been on and off working on a TCG for a few years, but this series helped me lock in and gave me the much-needed motivation, and now I'm going to start selling packs of my TCG to my friends at school next week! Super excited!
I need to reiterate how awesome this series is! It's a great inspiration, and just so we'll done! Can't wait to play Evoverse myself!
Thank you!! Can’t wait to put it out to the world!
I just want to say that your art really inspire me, and the fact that you really enjoy making your cards and do so much card desings is something I really admire and I wish to so consistent
Also, I don't know if you've already answer that question but what do you think about tabletop simulator? I know that the feeling of having your cards physically is way better than play on a digital format, but on phase of so much beta testing and readjust values of your cards I personally think that is much cheaper experiment in tabletop simulator
Dude, I've always liked the charm of your hand drawn characters, but GOOD LORD, the digital ones look so sick! Keep up the amazing work man!
@@axoa-noah8331 thanks!! Glad you like it and I wouldn’t have changed the style if I’d have thought it would lose the charm of the game!
Your art is amazing, idk why people are hating 😭🙏
The Aquakraka art look sooooo good! My favorite so far tha you have done. Great video as always !
I like the new art but I have always loved how the art in your games is done physically. Your digital definitely got better as you went though!
I have a idea
So the card is a small fish and it has the ability/skill to summon another fish card that is bigger and is eating the small fish that summon him
(English is my second language)
I love the marker style; it’s perfect
Zach you can draw the fineliner art, take pictures and use photoshop to color it in using the magic wand too
i really like the new artstyle, im a huge fan and i have watched all your videos and i really like the turtorials!
Great video as always!
I recently got into watching your journey towards Evoverse and I ended up watching basically EVERYTHING you have to offer, and I had a blast! It inspired me so much to try to make something new. Thank you so much!
@@Giviniti that’s awesome! Thanks for the support :)
Don't feel self conscious or anything about the way you do digital art, Zach. Ive been using the same technique for the art for the three htcgs ive been working on! This series has been a huge inspiration for the newest of the three tcgs im working on, so thanks a lot, dude! Love your work! 😎👍
The switch from elements to realms also makes the starter decks, Desert and Ocean, more thematically opposed, which is really fun! Maybe there could be a conflict between them in the lore or something...
I think adding search effector cards and draw efrector cards will really help make a satisfying feel to the water deck. Also protecting not just your evolver in a way but also your more powerful monsters: say i could use a card with a taunt ability to be attacked first before my other card which would then survive to the next turn because of the taunt & that could make some prediction plays or such.
Your art style makes your games feel like love is put into them :)
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What's your TCG gonna be called!? ⬇⬇
I'm trying to make a tcg called Graveyard Bash
Fruit Monsters
World mongers
I’m making one called RiFD
Rise From Darkness
Amazing video i really liked the new artwork
thanks!
Love this series!
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I love your art style more than magic the gathering art style. Just love that pretty simple arts
Loving the new artwork! If you're hand drawing them anyway to convrrt later on, maybe you could include them as like a "Special Original Illustration Rare" version of the card so that people could flex on their rivals? I think the unboxing experience goes so far with TCGs and getting that super rare card hits different
I love these videos I watched all the lore recently for chaos galaxy (I’m new) and I got really invested
The water deck should have more effectors. So that could be their tactic.
Using allot of free small effects that chain.
Love the new art style, probably makes it much easier to do edits to art as well! I still am not convinced about the playing of face-down cards. I can't see why you wouldn't play all cards face down and the fact that it's impossible to verify if someone did or didn't cheat even a few turns later without writing down what die you rolled for each face-down card makes me not sure if it will work in the long run. I do think the complexity it adds is worth thinking about a solution for this problem, maybe you can only have one face down card at a time, and you have to put the die you rolled on the card when you play it? Not sure. (If I missed anything in older videos that nullifies my comment, I apologize!)
All this in good faith! Love the videos and have been thoroughly enjoying your journey of creating this game.
Idea for the Ocean Deck: Have an effecter card that is a fishing pole that allows to search a low level ocean card and play it directly onto the field. You said the ocean deck has a lot of low level defenders, maybe this will help with defense in numbers
Dude the digital art looks so good! I love the Karakators! A massive improvement from the original artwork. And I know you listen to the comments for critiques and such so please don’t take this as a bash, but to me, I was wondering if the purple on the stalkers eyes could be lighter or something? I completely missed them when I first saw the artwork lol. It took me a second to realize but at the same time the thought of it not having eyes was kinda cool too lol
Thanks dude!! And I don’t know what it is with my printer but purple seems to come out way darker than it looks on screen, the evolver cars backgrounds look super dark too, not sure what it is but will defo fix it, thanks!
I personally like your artsyle. I remember buying Little doods on gamecrafter because i liked the art so much.
EvoVerse is an awesome name!!! You can make very cool calligraphy for all the letters
In case you were looking for ideas for a focused playstyle for the water deck maybe having a high tide / low tide duality could be fun or some kind of diving into your deck for a risk reward thing? Anyway i think having a standard cost to play things face down is probably a good way to deal with the issue you had like to olay something face down is equal to your evolvers level but while face down it has the stats of your evolver? Then to flip it face up you pay its cost with a discount equal to your evolvers level.
nah due, the art is sick and refreshing
Ive recently got into board games more card like board games like ascension or the star wars deckbuilder and i really want to make a new one this video is great inspiration (i may or may not use some of your ideas) i also love how a childhood hobby has grown into something this big please continue to make these videos they are a great inspiration and drive to me.
You have truly inspired me to create my own tcg called chaos multi im still thinking of creatures and names and also TONONONONON IS BACK!!!
Finally!!!
(Edit: angelettle because he looks like Doug the bug)
With how the water deck is right now, maybe it'd be fun to have a bigger fish mechanic, sacrificing the lower level defenders for stronger ones.
I'm sorry that I'm late today 😅
Love your content! You give me inspirations for stuff to my TCG although i haven't started making it and dont have enough creativity for it
I actually like the cactus insect thing and I think you could just give it pupils and it will have so much more personality
Love it!!
For the karaktor summoner i feel like it would be a fun gimmick if "when you play this card search your deck/hand for a karaktor stalker and place him on the field aswell. Cannot use action cards while both are alive." i forgot what your action cards were called but thats besides the point. I think maybe the power of the karaktor stalker should be increased a bit maybe to balnce the no use of action card effect i mentioned.. heck maybe the no use of action carfs could be a karaktor stalker effect so the summoner doesnt have that big blon of text.
As for kazonk i would just keep the death ability where you can ppace down ultimate kazonk
The game I’m making has 6 nations too. I’m making it a top down rock-paper-scissors system now and adding effects to each card.
Regarding your game, I have a sugestion that might help with that kind of situation when the games get too one-sided, which would be a way to separate or prioritize protector cards over effect cards. At least at the start of the battle this seems very significant.
There were other playtest videos where you could have a entire first hand made of, mostly, effect cards. There are many ways to try to remedy this like; allowing the player to discard their entire hand and draw that same amount at the beginning of the round; letting the player to replace any amount of effect cards with new cards from the deck; shuffling protectors and effect cards separately to guarantee that both players will consistently have 3/4 creatures and 1/2 effect cards at the start of a match; having separate drawing piles for protectors and effect cards. Maybe this also calls out for an ability that allows you to specifically draw the next 2 protectors cards instead of any 2 cards.
Thats basically my suggestion. It is not simething specific since this can be done in multiple ways. Cause I feel there are situations that the player needs any protector card to play, but they don't have any that they can play in hand. Anyway, these are just some suggestions to try to remedy a bit of the luck element when drawing the cards. Thanks for reading! 🦀
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
I have also added realms to my tcg and they really open up the possibilities
I don't think there is a problem with your hand drawn art. I just think I may have clashed with the digital card boarders. That said I think it looks super clean now and really nice. Good work!
i feel like maybe the fire one could be called hell, and the one that is currently hell could be called abyss or void
also, some sort of glacier/winter/tundra realm could be interesting
11:50 If you want to avoid players being able to cheat with the facedown cards, you can just make it so that the player has to pay for the card when they flip it faceup instead of when its played facedown.
I waited so long for you to update
A step into digital art is nice. As someone who- just like yourself- will always prefer traditional art, I can respect the decision. I said it before too, but EVOVerse is a beautiful name. Loving it. I do have to say though, I have some qualms with the playing cards face-down idea. As you stated before about players having the opportunity to cheat, but even then it sort of just feels a little... meh. Like a feature thats just been thrown into the mix of ideas.
Personally, I feel like possibly you could incorporate it into a certain Realms playstyle- or even Card abilities. The Sea Realm for example could specialise in making its card "DIVE". So when you play a Defender, your opponent can see you haven't cheated and THEN you flip it face-down. While face-down the card is inaccessible. Which you can then use for other card abilities- for example the Sea Realm Evolvers could let you "SURFACE" a face-down card (Flip it back face up) to either attack or defend with. Or have other cards with the same effect, or along those lines. This style of play could even be utilised in the Desert Realm too, tbh. Creatures that burrow into the sand and stuff.
This is just my food for thought idea though, either way, loving the progress as always Zack.
I think you should add another mechanic. Like counters, that would allow more ability options. Also you should effects that can be used on both players turns.
Will you do a video about getting the game and the 2 decks on the gamecrafter
@@merton1995 I think so! Although I only plan to make prototypes with the gamecrafter - I want to mass produce the game through a printing factory, and I’ll document the full process!
Crazy how far this has gotten :0
9:17 return of the Jedi is my fav
@@Bralore125 the first 2 trilogy’s are all bangers let’s be honest!
Also, i wanna add context to why yugioh seems to have lost its identity as you put it. This is mainly because instead of all cards being part of the egyptian god based lore each archtype actually HAS its own lore. Some are even connected. You can look up videos on yt that have really thematic explanations for each archtype's lore.
Yugioh moved from the whole series being loosely based of Egypt mythos to now each "Archetype" has its own lore. Konami has started a new animation studio that seems like its going to animate some of those stories.
Epic video
How does (creature clash tcg sound?)
Imagine if you made like a Halloween deck for Halloween or something 😂
You should add a background to the cards and a pose ( idea )
@JazeRBLX I’ll defo add backgrounds in the end, just need to flesh out what these realms will look like first!
As always a really great video. 💪
I would be interested in a broader marketing toadmap and if you will consider something like kickstarter. If it isnt too early for that🧐
can you put a tutorial on how you make your flat art style in your game and a tutorial on how you make artwork on your computer
Playing face down could have a set cost which can reduce the total cost of the card to flip
I've been loving this series, and I'm seriously looking forward to playing in the future. But I have to say I am just not a fan of the steal coin. I find it to be a clunky execution of a reasonable idea. As one of your friends commented in a previous episode: the stealing of the dice but providing of the coin is confusing. Just my thoughts , loving everything else
I’m making my own tcg could geomons and I have nerlay finished set 1 thank you for my inspo
good work man, i could NEVER draw as good as you, but i think that some of those basic creatures are to complicated in comparison to the others like trunkster and aquakraka. to me that just seems a bit odd
What do you use to create your card templates?
3:19 agreeed, I’m too skinny
What software do you use to make your cards?
1:18 i said that in like episode 4 or 5 Xd
I should’ve spotted it sooner 😅😅
Huge coincidence I’m making a game called elementals. It’s different from yours but I used your card templete with out knowing you made a game called elementals
I would say you started your journey at the perfect time, yugioh cards at their earliest we're cartoonish, silly or downright serious. Nowadays it's all about waifu's or something. Nothing against that, but i'm happy that this early yugioh flavor transformed into the games you have now. I too yearn for the days of puns and jokes in my cards.
lets goooo
my tcg name is biome battle ground do you think its good ?
@@unrealgamers8577 I like that! It’s a catchy title with the alliteration, and gives me a good idea of what the game’s about!
Absolutely well made point but using Pokemon in the thumbnail is a bit daft since it's the name of the videogame franchise and not the tcg.
I think it suits the card game just as well as the video games!
It's tomorrow today
I like your art style and monsters design. I'm really tired of "professional art" and realism. It's almost everywhere. It's sometimes has boring character designs imho. I like "cartoon style" more, it has more spirit of imagination and creativity ❤ ⭐
Thank you! Well said!!
Where is my boy Plorpel?