#deckbuilding

[calvincell]

Critical PSA to Balatro or Mahjong or general Roguelike Deckbuilder Lovers for the amazing looking upcoming game ULTIMAHJONG!

ULTIMAHJONG is in the exact spirit of the likes of Balatro, Bingle Bingle & other casino/gambling-based roguelikes/deckbuilders that have been inundating the indie gaming scene recently and which I’ve personally been happily drowning in! In this case the base game is Mahjong & it’s straight up Riichi Mahjong based thankfully rather than the deluge of puzzle solitaire tile matching games that overwhelm Steam

Currently has playable demo on top of being Wishlistable. The dev predicts a release this year & I’m absolutely purchasing it on day one if for nothing else than to reward a halfway legitimate Mahjong game!

Speaking of the dev, they themselves ran through a few rounds of the early game to show it off:

Don’t know how many this post will reach but I’m happy to do my part to raise the population of Mahjong Enthusiasts out here on top of supporting innovative indie devs & their projects!

[mtg-talk]

When you can’t decide what card you want to cut during deckbuilding and you notice your pile of lands

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Magic The Gathering Deckbuilding Prompt:

60 card deck

Any cards printed in the last 20 years (please don’t use the ones that are banned if you know you know)

24 Lands exactly; at least 12 of which are Basic

Limit: 1 mythic rare max

Limit: 4 rares max

Limit: 16 uncommons max

I want to see what sort of deck you/“your blog” would show up with if I had an informal tournament along these lines. Trying to keep the power level/ budget approachable. Consider it an offbeat way to express yourself. I’ll put mine in a reply here.

[leafdrake-haven]

Ok so I’ve been low key trying to put together some sort of modern drake deck because I hate winning and I love pain (and drakes). Izzet makes the most sense but today I was playing with Jeskai. Which made me intrigued…. With making a drake typal deck for commander in Jeskai colors xD

Pros to making a Jeskai drake typal commander deck: Can have all the good Izzet drakes plus thunderclap wyvern plus white buff spells.

Cons to making a Jeskai drake typal commander deck: Not a great commander for it, when we INEVITABLY get a drake typal commander (or second one if you count Alandra) it will likely be mono blue or Izzet colors so I would probably have to take it apart for that.

Drakes are relatively cheap tho and I like them (duh) so I might do it ~anyway~

Right now my two top contenders for the deck leader are:

Now Akim. People who play with me are laughing that I’m choosing a commander that cares about and makes tokens xD I think this works really well with drake tokens tho since they’re fairly small, doublestrike is nice. Downside is really only Alandra and Talrand reliably make drake tokens. It’s commander so I could afford probably to add Drake Haven and Roost of Drakes but I don’t know how much discard/cycle and kicker I’d actually be doing. Also that’s still only 4/100 cards reliably or semi-reliably making drake tokens. I could, however, add a lot of creature copy spells in here and make copies of drake creatures and that might help cover for it. Plus many copies of thunderclap wyvern, tideskimmer, or storm skreelix could be very handy.

Dear Narset. I want her strictly for her first line of text and that’s it. Drakes with prowess. That’s the deck. Don’t get me wrong, her second ability would be helpful too but I feel like I’d rarely attack with her just so my drakes could always have prowess.

So yeah. These are my ideas so far. I’m sure there are other potential Jeskai commanders for drakes but in my brief perusal these seemed the best :3

Tagging local Jeskai deck aficionado @connoissuer-of-fine-vines

[massgalaxy]

Knife, Grapple and Jump Mecha action. ARC SEED is coming soonish! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332970/ARC_SEED/

[snowbound-cabin]

Card Game Design

Hello! Ve are making a digital card game to play with friends, and ve're looking for learning resources for board/card game design, especially free ones. In addition, ve're looking for card games to learn from the design of, namely ones like MtG, Yugioh, Pokemon, Hearthstone, especially ones that meet any of the following criteria:

Ones that don't involve collecting cards, you just buy the game as one big set,

and don't involve a specific deckbuilding phase ahead of time,

but do involve deckbuilding mid-game.

I know there's one out there that fits that last one, but I can't remember enough about it to find it. Anyone got anything like this?

Also: Does anyone have a design analysis that compares various TCGs (and other games in that style) and how their overarching structure works?

[greenflamethegf]

I fuckn' made a game. It took a long time to finish and will take longer still to make it into what I want it become.

However, there is a playable demo right now, free and super fun. It's a card based, party based strategy.

I have so many plans for the future. I want this to be deck-building rpg with a story, rogulike mode and who knows what else.

[dimestoretajic]

Out of curiosity...

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

I love rats, and I like unusual magic cards. So, it only makes sense to illustrate a repeating pattern of endless rats.

[insectoidvania]

HIVEMIND (by Spotted_Leaf)

"In Hivemind, you collect bugs to defeat insect predators in the jungle. Build a deck of cool bugs that can synergize to create powerful armies!" (from the itch.io page!)

have i mentioned that i really enjoy card games? hivemind is a pretty short game so i actually ended up playing 3 rounds of the game for the video! (darn that healing final boss and eagle) but the game's pretty fun! enjoyed trying to strategize and playing new rounds to see if the odds would be on my side that time :]

video warnings: minor flickering because of the animation used in the flying bug wings and potential arachnophobia trigger (there is a spider enemy in the game, and though cartoony, does slightly lean to a realistic drawing of the bug). viewer discretion is advised!

bug content: oops all bugs! - almost every character in the game is bug or bug-adjacent!

free or paid?: free!

genres: deck building, roguelike, card game

content warnings: minor flickering (wing animation), spider (slightly cartoony)

check out hivemind on itch.io here!

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

I love when things in LoR have auras. Cards passively affecting other cards is such a fun aspect of deckbuilding, I love conceptualizing all the different unique synergies. Probably why I built probably a dozen decks around Headmistress Telsi and a horde of Legion Marauders

[forthewarp]

BOOM! For The Warp is 80% off on Americas region in the eShop!

[bam-games]

Welcome to Shuffle Quest! A brand new, coop twist on your classic roguelike deckbuilder.

Four decks are better than one, so join forces with your friends in this Slay the Spire meets D&D adventure.

Subscribe to our newslett to get notified when our kickstarter goes live. https://bam-games.com/#scrollpoint07

Youtube Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vV-ZqwoftQ&ab_channel=BAMGames . . . . . . .

[sarahnorthway]

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is my upcoming narrative deckbuilding RPG where you can grow up to be a xenofauna rancher, a roboticist, a politician or a rebel with a cause, as you live (and die, and re-live) your torrid teenage years in humanity's first extrasolar colony.

In a few short months (August 25th!) Exocolonist will dazzling eyes and breaking hearts. I've been working for 5 years with a diverse and talented group of artists and writers to bring you Northway Games' biggest game yet.

Wishlist now on Steam!

[massgalaxy]

We are part of #Steam Dinos vs Robots fest! We don't have dinosaurs, but dino-sized robots instead. You can play our updated demo of ARC SEED today! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332970/ARC_SEED/

[nickolashx]

Inscryption (2021)

From the creator of Pony Island and The Hex comes the latest mind melting, self-destructing love letter to video games. Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...