Trading Card Game

Hello everyone, I am Kinnerdamon and i am beginning work on a Trading Card Game. I will be posting my progress in this thread when i have time or i need a break from development. I am open to all suggestions, tips, questions, and help. You can contact me through this thread or by sending me a PM.

Basic outline of what i will be doing so far.

Notice! this section is mostly made up of ideas, some, most, or even all of them may not make it into the final game!

• This will be a fantasy based game with a few steam-punk elements.
• There will be a resource system to play cards with. my current idea is a system of 4 elements Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. All of the cards will also have roots in these elements except a few that are neutral or are crosses between the other elements.
• I am currently looking at somewhere in the area of 300-1000 cards, it is more likely to be somewhere in the middle of those numbers, probably around 600-700 cards. (around 100 cards per element with the rest being scattered in between is what i am thinking, if anyone gets a better idea than what they see here let me know please)
• Decks will be made out of 40-60 cards (Minimum), your hand will have 6 cards at the start and you can have 7 at max.
  
  
• Different card types will be; Resource cards, Creatures, Spells, Equipment, and Enhancement.
  
  • Creatures: this will be your troops, will have attack, toughness, resource costs, and some creatures will have special effects.
  • Resource Cards: these will generate Resources for you in a number of different ways, some will generate one each of your turns and others will give you immediate resource boosts or even steal resources from the other player.
  • Spells: Wreak havoc upon your enemies with destructive magics, heal your allies, or turn the tide in your favor by getting certain cards from your deck or graveyard back onto the field faster.
  • Equipment: Boost your creatures attacks and toughness for as long as they are on the field by using equipment.
  • Enhancement: Temporally boost your allies stats for one turn or the duration on the card.
• The field of battle will be limited to 7 creatures. Resources will be unlimited as will spells.
• Battle will start with both players having a health pool and who ever loses all of their health first loses the game. Computer opponents health will vary based on difficulty.
• Multi-player games will only be available on a local basis, this means that both players would have to be on the same computer, over the internet is not yet possible, if this changes i will put it in.

I'm going to say this one more time. This is just a starting outline, features and ideas you see here may be cut back to save space and time, others may be built up further to make a better game, and more may be added.


Help wanted list
I am looking for help for parts of working on the game, not all of the spots listed here will be available to be worked on right away, most of them will require a lot of work on my end before you can start.

Graphics, my expertise here extends no further than stick figures and basic outlines.

The World so far.
Ah what we have all be waiting for, i am making a fantasy style world for this game and it is coming along nicely, first release will likely only have humans and animals, but future releases will be sure to have other races like elves and such.

The Human Races
There are four main races of humans each with each own history and is associated with a different element. All names are subject to change upon submission of a better name.

The Chashael
Element: Wind
The Chashael are a normally peaceful people but vengeful when attacked. Their recent war with the Yewtip Empire has left their armies broken but their spirit still lives on as they rebuild and train new warriors to retake their ancestral lands from the invading Yewtip Empire.

The Yewtip Empire
Element: Earth
The Yewtip Empire is the largest of the four human races, most of this is due to their extreme hatred of outsiders and absolute loathing of anyone associated with the wind element.

The Adaken
Element: Fire
Little is known of the Adaken, they rose up in a mountain desert and are rarely seen outside of their mountain ranges. no one has seen any Adaken for almost twenty years. Rumors of Orcish hordes amassing just beyond the Northern Mountains has everyone on edge.

Scroll-Guard
Element: Water
The Humans of Scroll-Guard are the most peaceful people, long ago trusted to protect an ancient scroll containing a powerful destructive spell. Most of their people are more focus on their own affairs.
Few humans ever leave and those that do never speak a word of the ancient scroll.

More elaborate descriptions are to come. Other races may make an appearance, but they will not be major players until the first expansion at least. (yes there will be expansion updates for the game)

This post contains all of the attachments that i will post. so far i have outlines for the battlefield and the cards.

That doesn't look like a half-bad idea to begin with. Plus, it looks like you've got yourself an outline (to me, I don't mind the graphics.) for where those cards are placed. ^_^

Hmm you'll have hard competition and need something unique to add to it. I can do the job of bouncing ideas back and some opponent AI. If you need me I'll be on stencylworks so add me on the chat

Thanks KungFuFurby for the support. and Chaosoul for the offer, i'll talk to you once i get a more solid idea and the basics put together.

I just made a Gmail account for this, the address is Kinnercardgame@gmail.com if you have suggestions please let me know as soon as you can through this forum, a PM, or the new Email.

I am trying to find ideas for various cards, so far the way i want to break everything down is the four elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind. each element has at least two main races/groups associated with it. Examples would be dwarves and elves are both Earth and wind has angles and harpies to go with it, i will post the full list later once i have more figured out with it.

Also if anyone wants to make a battle map and/or card blank ideas (the basic card look that would be customized into each card) then i would be most appreciative of it.

any and all suggestions are welcome.

Hello again,
I updated the main post and condensed it all down. I have the beginings of the world creation side out up now and i will be starting on card creation soon. as soon as i get a few of these made i can start creating and testing the behaviors i need.

Just added a list of some of the creatures that will be implemented, the list of the wind creatures is just about finale just have to tweak them around maybe add a few more, the earth list however is just a few random ideas bouncing around. if anyone has questions about the list feel free to ask.
the Chashael ships are flying boats, yes you heard that right think steam powered era if you want to make art for them. wood or wood with Iron plating.

Updated the card list with a few more of the Earth cards, the second sheet is the list of spells, only has 3 wind cards on it right now though.

changed the card blank a little bit, its now smaller and has everything for creatures on it, spells/equipment/enhancement will not have the attack/toughness section and the resource cards will also have the resource cost section at the top removed.
Pixel size is 140 wide by 180 tall, i think this is as small as i am going to go but i might go a little smaller.

Nice idea, sounds fun.

That's a Great Idea, Trading Card Game like "Yugioh", "Duel Master" is the best CARD games ever.. So, Why not.. Let's Try it..

But, I Still Newbie bout this stencyl n flash stuff, maybe I can help some contents for effect / information of each cards maybe.. or Graphic.. some creature like monster, knight, magician or Alien maybe hihi..

If, You want 2 ask me.. PM y , buddy 

I can help with the graphics if you got a template for the cards.

ZDP2011
@ Kinnerdamon and @ YellowWolf

One artist alone, would take too long. However, many artists working on the illustration for the game would make the game much faster.

@ Kinnerdamon
If you feel confident about your skills, I am looking for a coder for a business plan that will grant you access to many great illustrators. Time frame would be 6-12 mos. If you are interested send me a tweet or email.

Cheers

Looks great so far. Have you worked on any of the game mechanics or just ideas for now?

I was just thinking about making a trading card game with my hamster characters for Stencyl, too :3.  Will there be a way to edit the game to have your own cards in it :3?