Digital Card Game Design
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A quick tour through card game design. From systems design to visuals and implementation. Held at A MAZE, Berlin in 2016. Audio from the presentation can be found here: https://voicerepublic.com/talks/doing-the-hindu-shuffle
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- 1. Doing the Hindu shufďŹe A tour through digital card game design
- 4. Overview System Cards Decks Visuals Tech
- 6. What kind of game? ⢠Card as central play element ⢠Cards are ⢠Token (playing piece) ⢠Action ⢠Interface ⢠Exception-based design
- 7. Simple but Deep ⢠Easy to grasp ⢠Simple rules for card use ⢠Minimise non-card actions ⢠Add complexity through card rules ⢠Cards interact with one another
- 9. Player Actions ⢠What can players do? ⢠Play Cards ⢠Actions caused by cards ⢠Draw cards, select targets⌠⢠Other actions? ⢠Attack with creatures, end turnâŚ
- 10. Card Effects ⢠Cause one time effects ⢠Cause enduring effects ⢠Remain in play ⢠Have a position ⢠Can be a resource ⢠Can react and change
- 12. Resource Development ⢠Change of resources during play ⢠Shapes tension ⢠Affects deck building ⢠Affects balancing of cards
- 13. Time ⢠Turn-based vs. Realtime ⢠Consider complexity of board
- 15. How much Random? ⢠Randomness can be an equaliser ⢠Randomness in cards ⢠Randomness in decks
- 16. Card Design
- 17. Card Design ⢠Figure out your card aspects ⢠Cost ⢠Type ⢠Rules ⢠Consider the power curve
- 18. Core Cards ⢠Simple basic cards on which to build ⢠Allow you to play the game ⢠Help pin down the core power curve
- 19. Keywords ⢠Help with card interactions ⢠With other cards ⢠With other playing pieces ⢠Players, status effects⌠⢠Keywords can help with interaction
- 20. Deck Design
- 21. Deck Building ⢠Requires different skills than playing ⢠Understanding randomness ⢠Seeing connections between cards ⢠Research (homework) ⢠Provides meaningful inďŹuence on game ⢠Opportunity to be creative
- 22. Decision Paralysis ⢠Large Sets make things difďŹcult ⢠Knowledge of available cards ⢠Knowledge of the meta game ⢠Acquiring the appropriate cards
- 23. Deck-Size ⢠Depends on design ⢠Target play duration ⢠Desired predictability ⢠Set Size ⢠And on complexity of cards
- 24. Visual Design
- 25. The Board ⢠Visual metaphor of âtable topâ ⢠Everything relevant needs to be visible ⢠Complexity depends on ⢠Amount of cards ⢠Complexity of cards
- 26. Cards as Interface ⢠Cards are action indicators ⢠Minimise non-card elements ⢠Make those you have clearly visible
- 27. Card Layout ⢠Strong visual hierarchy ⢠Important things visible ďŹrst ⢠Edges & Corners for overlapping ⢠The image on the card is important
- 29. Simple Visuals ⢠Make your animations feel physical ⢠Cards need a lot of artwork ⢠Find a style that works in volume
- 30. Card Text ⢠Quickly readable ⢠Easy to be misunderstood ⢠Use keywords to shorten your text ⢠Provide way to look up keywords
- 32. Technical Design
- 33. Card Objects ⢠Ideally somewhere easily to balance ⢠But complex card effects & interactions ⢠Our solution: ⢠We used scriptableObjects and a lot of custom editor scripts ⢠In hindsight would probably do differently and use either a scripting language or a FSM system
- 35. Command Pattern ⢠Command Handler ⢠Cards generate a set of commands ⢠Based on game state ⢠Commands are then executed