There´s going to be more shard tcg?

i wish you showed the left side of the app. I dont know how to use inkscape and find this hard to follow. Amazing video and chanel anyways love your content

You went to Art School, right? Sweet Card

It's amazing how mch this design has going for it, especially with how easy you made it look.

Too many broad borders makes the design too square and squishy to the eyes, making the values and art secondary

Keep up this great content, sir. Our community really appreciates you, James!

5:45 thats top tier segue lol

Bit late to the party, but big congratulations… it seems like you’re already so close to 5k! I’ve been playing Shard TCG in person with friends and family and it was a big success, really good reception and general enjoyment of the game, they were quite surprised after I told them that there isn’t any mainstream or large tournaments (that I am aware of) on Shard TCG.

Xylon will be using a scaling resource system similar to hearthstone :)

I thought I’d give an idea for a card game Kaijus Your deck has 3 kaijus outside of your deck A kaiju can be summoned by removing from play a certain amount of cards from the discard pile If you lose all your cards or all your kaijus you lose Kaijus are much stronger than regular creatures

I think ive discovered a system that both works as a way to track life, play cards, and has comeback built right in, all by using only the cards in your deck! Im pretty proud of it.

Wild how sooooo many guides to modern card game design is "hey, you know yugioh? Like, maybe don't do that"

But what if i want a more complex tcg rulebook as most new tcg are to simple and boring for me.

2:40 I think one solution we may see become more common is simultaneous turn order games. Games where both players choose their actions and then flip them to find out the result of an encounter. I can think of several unique ways to accomplish this style of play that could all coexist in the marketplace as different complementary card games. Gosh, one day the lot of us will get together to make the perfect card game and kickstart a truly successful game on the order of the greats. Maybe on that day it will be a game of this design.

2:12 Many magic the gathering players [ask the question ...]

Awesome video! I think my game nailed the layout part pretty well!

Ill be here soon ...

Are there copyrighted keywords that we should keep away from when creating a new TCG?

I don't think powercreep ads progression by making something faster and more complicated. i think it just makes new cards be played instead of old cards. Witch is something that can be done in other ways. Also, I don't think powercreep is necessary at all in digital ccg because you could nerf these new strong cards

Yeah battle cry feels like it should be a trigger for combat effects more than a basic summon Reinforce might have been a better term as the monster is being summoned to reinforce your champion

I’m not sure if you still play but if you love equip cards infernoble knights were a viable equip deck that’s still playable it has a high ceiling but it’s really fun (though they lost one of there best cards in isolde

You know what’s an interesting equip mechanic that’s been shown but never printed armatos legio it’s a cool yugioh anime deck that never got printed but has such a cool theme

Well yugioh had a bunch Exodia is the classic Soul relay technique though it’s more of an auto lose condition (add on true exodia the joke lose condition) Final countdown Last turn Ghost trick angel of mischief Jackpot 7 Number IC1000 numerounius numerounia Holactie (OCG only) Venniminaga Flying elephant Destiny board Exodia the legendary defender Musical sumo dice game F.A. Winners Gimmick puppet if Leo + disaster Leo Phantasm spiral assault And then there’s recent tournaments cards which are unplayable and the same effect plays now card (as in it doesn’t forbid you from using it in a duel on the card) victory dragon but that wins the match not the game

Missing the timing I understand for some effects like negation of activation or effect but chainblocking to force a fizzle isn’t fun If and when shouldn’t be this difficult Also more of a formatting thing but semi colons to indicate cost

Btw character from 0:45 is from a boardgame called Arcadia Quest I was curious so I tineye'd it

I'm working on my own tcg this video was so helpful

Yay I'm in a Video! XD

My son (10yr) + his friend and I have put together a card game. The rough draft is getting printed now. Would you be interested on testing it out one day?

But,is it a red flag is my friend doesn't read MY cards text and then complains lol-

About the optimal place for the stats: My tcg, ther's no cards in hand, means all is on the table or stacked. So me, the designer, has personal freedom to put the starts whereever I want. ;)

Palworld chop

Out of curiosity what is your opinion on TCG's with odd shaped cards? The reason I got back into TCG and want to make my own was because I found my old Heroscape cards from the board game. They always made me wish for more games with unique layouts. I'm a video game dev so I was thinking it would be an interesting direction to go since I don't have to worry about how it feels in the players hands.

We know how to prevent infinite combos because we live in a world where infinite combos are impossible. The problem is this means everything needs to have cost and there need to be hard conservation laws. How are you gonna do that in a mechanically interesting TCG?

The fact Pokemon has a +6 card advantage card is wild to me, even if it is a supporter.

Re: how to balance l first turn advantage? Make everything interaction and turns only affect who plays first in an open game state, with untap and draw phases being simultaneous.

I feel like discarding a card every time you play a card is a pretty deadly effect.l against a deck that isn't full of graveyard effects. Not quite a yata but it is still going to mean everything your opponent does is -2 card advantage.

Huge congrats man!

Too many effect will result in just a convoluted design

For my game I went practical. Partially just because I don't have photoshop skills. The practical part of the design is more that the relevant stats of a card are always viable by being in the upper left. With the game being a Deckbuilding game, I put the Cost in the upper right (where magic has theirs) because it doesn't matter in hand. To me, you make sure all your needed info is where it can be seen when needed, then make it all look good. I will post few pictures of my cards in your Discord.

My best advice. Make the game you want to play but doesn't exist. Don't make what people like or what sells or what other people make. Just make that one game YOU want. Unapologetically.

I thing Art should not be less that 2/3 of the card size, players remember the shape more than the text …

Just found your channel and now I want to make my own TCG for the first time lol.

Love how you break it down. Totally unexpected

I have a pretty solid idea on what I want to do with my Card boarders, just need to figure out how to best digitize it.

Good art featured prominently on your card game is one of the most important aspects of any TCG/CCG. If you can't compel someone to collect them by their looks, it'll be a lot harder to hook them on gameplay too. That last design shown is actually top-tier work for an indie TCG. Simple yet evocative, add floating text over the bottom half of the image for your card effects. Perfect, simple design. Will likely also look great in foil with minimal work. (Gold/Silver foil stamp the borders, numbers, and text- Maybe add texture to card/image if you're feeling fancy) Shard, I highly recommend you check out Monster Club TCG if you haven't yet. Phenomenal work.

O_O I really love the Pokémon TCG balance of card and information layout. My tcg is based off that with some small art bleed into the frame. I don’t cover up any information with the bleeding.

Its a red flag when you cant find anyone else who plays that game.

Theres a reason everyone uses squares. They just work. Every major card game uses squares.

Congrats! Big achievement!!

Can you do a tutorial on how you set up your stroke pen please