How to Come Up with Ideas for a Trading Card Game, Characters and Names (homemade tcg)

[@whitestagstudios7726]

Love creating lore and archetypes for games, it's so satisfying when everything flows together so well

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

definitely!

[@iwasrandomlygenerated6088]

I just wanted to say thanks for inspiring me when you first started this project. It sent me on a crazy journey of discovering board games and card games alike and I'm truly grateful for that. I've been dabbling in making my own games for years, but you've inspired me to upload that journey and hopefully inspire other people to get in to this awesome hobby! Thanks Zach!

[@gachabunnybear652]

J in hope you tcg is doing good!

[@iwasrandomlygenerated6088]

@@gachabunnybear652 it's a lot of work but a fun project :D

[@TheRealDerpy]

We need the hand thing doodle as a card. I'm not good at space names so until it gets a name I call it...... Three St-armed creature

[@skyscapegamingllc8154]

DerpySkydude 123 Yes

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Love that name haha! I'll definitely make it into a card, perhaps in the Sindell Starter Deck!

[@SummonersoftheRealm]

You inspired me to make a tcg and I’ll probably get some of packs of chaos galaxy for Christmas

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

great to hear! and thanks for supposrting the game :)

[@tiffanynazworth9681]

@@ChaosGalaxyTCG supporsting not trying to be mean just thought that was funny

[@maskedduelist1380]

Just recently started binging your channel. I've had an idea for a game that I've been working on for years and your vids have been very helpful. Just out of curiosity, have you or are you planning on hosting tournaments ever?

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thanks for the support and good luck with the game! I do plan on it eventually, im not sure if id be able to get enough people togetehr where i live in london and im not a very organised person lol but online there are a group of really nice guys who have regular tounaments on the chaos galaxy discord!

[@toaozey]

I’m just starting and i immediately thought of time travel is the to much?

[@octarianmenace]

This is hands-down the most helpful thing I've come across. Thank you so much!

[@randomcharacters0]

I Saw Your Knight Arch-Type And Immediately Wanted To Make My Own. Thanks For The Inspiration!

[@lukavic740]

Did he really just say Chinese Samurai???

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

@arche rowan oh no that was a big slip up on my part! Sorry 😅

[@SelLillianna]

It was a slip up as he said, but it could also be a cool story about a samurai who somehow ends up in China. That'd be pretty cool.

[@PL9050]

I thought samurais *_were_* Chinese?

[@thatmetaromanticist]

@@PL9050 I feel like this is a joke but well if I'm gonna get wooshed then let me get wooshed but if you're serious they usually Japanese

[@PL9050]

z3r0 zyl0n Don't worry, it wasn't a joke, i'm just an uncultured imbecile. (=

[@luckylizard999]

Love your artwork and card mechanics

[@hamsandwich6685]

I have been watching your videos in the background as I work on play testing my own card game I'm making. I really dig your art and style. It's clean, simple, but interesting and looks really great, even potentially very iconic in my opinion. You have very cool ideas and are, by osmosis, leaking your influence into the development of my card game now. Thank you sir.

[@birdoschannel440]

Same!

[@cactiman6593]

I have waited so long for this!! THANK YOU

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

No probs :)

[@cactiman6593]

One question: why is my copic brush tip turning lighter color and producing less ink?

[@gachabunnybear652]

@@cactiman6593 have you had it for a long time? It might be low on ink

[@jvansantos8300]

Lets goooooo, another upload!!!🔥🔥🔥

[@gachabunnybear652]

I just started my first tcg! It’s called “The Tribe Of Legends” your channel is so helpful for tcg tips!

[@melodymusic3860]

Man I have been dying for a video like this. The thing with me is when I start making a tgc in the middle I loose interest and start questioning my concept and theme. This video will surely help me.

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first ever tcg a couple of days ago!

[@sarahhunter1510]

I've been working on my own TCG but I've lost a bit of motivation since I genuinely don't see it getting any where as big as yours, much less to the likes of Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic. How can I get over this mentality?

[@danielzakgaim2764]

In my opinion homestly, you shouldn't worry about being as big as Chaos Galaxy, or even Magic or Yugioh. Just focus on making the game fun and intersesting. That's what's most importaint. Not every card game is an instant hit. Just look at Hearthstone. When it was originally revealed, everyone thought it was a stupid idea for a game. Now, its ome of the most popular online card games in the world. In summary, focus on making tje game fun and intersesting, and don't focus on how successfull it will be comapred to these other games, that have gathered a large folloeing over the course of several years. I hope this helped.

[@sarahhunter1510]

@@danielzakgaim2764 Yeah it helped a bit. I suppose it's just some part of me wants my TCG to blowup and everything when it most likely won't. I'll do my best to make my TCG as fun and interesting as it can be.

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Honestly, I'd try and stop comparing your game to others, there'll always be someone more successful especially when youre starting out. Just make it for yourself and because you want to! I made my game at first with just me, my brother and 2 cousins playing and i enjoyed as much as i do now, so i dont think you should get over the mentality, just try and not think about it at all!

[@sarahhunter1510]

@@ChaosGalaxyTCG Alright I'll try my best then! Thanks a lot for the advice! Keep it up man!

[@abcproductions235]

@@sarahhunter1510 if you’re making a tcg for it to be successful just don’t even bother then, do it cus you want to make it and you like to make art and stuff

[@coolperson8594]

I made my own characters for my TCG!

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thats great to hear!

[@SBGEditz_1]

I took inspiration from your premise, except Generation 1 has 7 planets like yours, and each Generation will add new ones. Love your videos! When I am trying to make my TCG Nakoir I love watching your videos, and scribbleswithracheal’s videos!

[@StoryGameArtist]

It's interesting to see how you go about the creative process, and how crazily close you create in the same way I do!

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thanks! And thats interestting as i feel there are so many ways to go about it

[@SweetArmadillo361]

I love Violet Stone Valley. Very pretty card which plays into the game's distinctive art style.

[@saitougin7210]

Pro advice, just do it like in Yu-Gi-Oh! for most of the deck-ideas: Just take two topics, that have nothing to do with each other and then make every card name of the deck a pun of words from both topics, e.g. MechaPhantombeasts are combinations of airplanes and beasts, the dinowrestlers and gemknights are selfexplanatory, Gouki were demons, who were also wrestlers, dinomists were dinosaur-themed steam machines, predaplants were combinations of carnivorous plants and beasts, fur hires were furries who were also mercenaries, and so on ...

[@chiedozieorjijr.308]

I am 12 years old and I love creating cards thank you for this the chaos galaxy

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@tadfer7]

Yooo Zack! You’re channel has been getting me back into Tcg’s, so I’m thinking I’ll revive my channel, with + content maybe 🤷🏽‍♂️ I’m already making new cards for the game I’ll finally stick with, you’re an inspiration man!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I just started mine!

[@amoralangel]

This is the exact thing I was looking for

[@coatcg5388]

Good video. Maybe you could do one soon on ways to advertise your game on a budget. I really running into that problem at the moment.

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@SavageBeastsTheCardGame]

Love these tips!

[@beesh0s454]

I started making tcgs from yu gi oh then decided to make my own and your vid from 4 years ago really helped me, but I never made cards for money I just want to make my own game so I can play with my friends and that brought me enough joy just to see the thing I made is actually fun and playable, and I think this is the best thing to do, cuz making card games from scratch and hoping that it’ll be famous is not gonna work and when that expectation doesn’t happen you get sad and not want to do it anymore, so focus on making the game to play and not to sell, and have fun making them, and exaggerate the characters, like make cards that are SUPER LEGENDARY AND MYTHICAL WITH 10000 ATK AND 10000 DEFENSE and only keep it as that one card that destroys all and makes your opponent go NANI??? And I think this is where the most fun is in making tcgs

[@noriko-r8b]

This is a pretty late comment, but thanks so much for posting this I had so much trouble making cards for my own game! Thanks

[@ALFTHECOOL]

I have been working on a tcg since 2013, i have now reached a game that is 100% original and i have never seen anything like it before, you have have been a big inspiration since i started. Also the channel and i have same birthday lol hehe.

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

wow that sounds exciting! Do you have plans for making videos yet, let me know when you start posting things on the game!

[@ALFTHECOOL]

ChaosGalaxyTCG i might! I Only have 18 cards finished!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@penguinatee210]

This is so useful! Probably the most useful vid yet! Thanks a lot for making this!!!

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thanks! glad you liked it!

[@ExtremelyAverageGames]

It would be super cool if you could do a video on promoting us smaller tcgs in hopes to help us grow and gain more motivation! I'm also seeing alot of newer tcgs that would love it aswell. Keep up the good work man.

[@ScarletSpartan_]

Working on my own game right now. Enjoying it a ton! Very cheesy mobster type stuff right now.

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

great stuff! That sounds like a really fun, original theme!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@Gene-stealer112]

I always wonder how are you so creative

[@sirthumple7494]

The card game I'm currently designing has a few archetypes as of now. And naming them always comes down to, usually, their abilities. The world of my game is fantasy mixed with futuristic technology, and the epitome of this concept are the Echo Knights. When you play them, they search for copies of themselves that are then weakened once they are on the field. They aren't creatures themselves, but merely reflections. When it comes to designing archetypes themselves, the abilities and such, I usually have a few creatures that have a similar ability, one boss monster that utilizes that ability to its fullest potential to pull out the win, and a number of support cards that keep the decks they're in consistent.

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@simsamswifty9450]

FINAĻLY THAANNKK YYOOOUUUUUUU(į wanna make card games aka tcg's)

[@soulguardtcg7025]

I loved this video, it’s amazing how everything you say can fit with any game that anyone is making 👏👏👏

[@musixvoice5254]

You have inspired me to make my own tcg thank you so much

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@chriskatz2355]

Theres a lot of chaos card games lately....my comic is Chaos Ensuming so the tcg will be.....Chaos Ensuming....lmao this is funny as hell

[@hazmanmarsh8915]

Yay my idea sorter happened

[@endtimestcg5146]

Thank you very much! Alot of good Advice here!

[@samasaurus1238]

Love your vid, as always! You even got a few laughs out of me in this one! :)

[@robbiejones7292]

This guy is underrated!!

[@riwjriorfi]

This really helped me in my ideas it’s gonna be a tcg about pirates and the old times and I’ve been getting drawing classes I hope it can be as popular as chaos galaxy

[@mossesmeadows5605]

Hows the tcg going

[@Shulktiem]

Great video idea 👍

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

thanks!

[@IA-Entertainment2]

Great tips 👍 really helped

[@hype_axe360]

Do you manufacture your own cards? Or where do you go to get your cards printed

[@310ingrid1]

It helped me a lot for my tcg!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@monsterfalltcg8897]

This ideas really really help becuse i have been making cards but they did not work for me soo i found this vid and it really really help me thx.

[@MagicApocalypseTCG]

My is about a post end world set in a fantasy word still not sure what kind of characters and things I want but artifacts are resources for my game.

[@finbarrsworld]

Thank you my card game that I’m gonna launch tommorw I thought about it and I decided to stop because I was copying characters from another company but I will make my own new card game with my own ideas

[@Jasmodeuss]

Question for the characters, what if they all are super simple, for example my characters, the blobs and the guys species, are all basically just circles with eyes, but change via environment

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Good question - I think that’s a good thing tbh! The simplicity of the design doesn’t really mean anything as long as all the cards in the game follow that style, eg: a powerful Pokémon card will look super simple compared to a weak Magic the Gathering card but because ALL Pokémon cards look pretty simple, it won’t matter! Just as long as all the cards in your game match that style (Hope that makes sense)

[@vision_vl1866]

You work so hard and you deserve goodness

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

thanks! means a lot!

[@ivohunter24]

Really helpful and professional!

[@thetenshiessentials8432]

Your card game should have it's own show. Cartoon. That'd be cool as hell 🔥

[@gachabunnybear652]

What do you think of the name “The Tribe Of Legends” I recently started my first homemade tcg game!

[@mattiwurtz2436]

Thanks for making this video

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

youre welcome!

[@tonynottony608]

why do this video have dislikes? This video is so Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@melissawarrior5415]

I have a idea but I need to learn how to build a strategy and rules for the game.

[@brodsta_art833]

Sorry im a little late but i kinda need that help with my game

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Glad it helped!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@BradDraws]

Spirited Away!!! :D

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

probs my all time favourite film!

[@BradDraws]

@@ChaosGalaxyTCG princess mononoke is one of my favs!!

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

@@BradDraws thats such a good one too!

[@valgeirbjarnason2517]

I made a cloud,and named it cloud:)

[@valgeirbjarnason2517]

(it is a card)

[@bturtle2907]

This really helped me out thank you

[@sokman6807]

Zac may I ask a question? How do I get the zones for the crutsures and recurce and battle cards? Cuz I don't know do you sell them or what? I hope you answer me please

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

There are free, downloadable pdfs of the zones on the game crafter (they come with starter decks) unfortunatly it would be too pricey to print and ship them but theyre quite easy to make at home!

[@sokman6807]

@@ChaosGalaxyTCG so could they be printed with an A4? Cuz it's all that I got

[@Blox-jeux]

15:02 Him : TONONONONONONON Captions : Tunneling I'm Unarmed ... Me : WHAT THE-

[@zipop6845]

I got inspired by ... you!

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thank you!!

[@hanssorensen3083]

I just found 4 TCG's on the Gamecrafter: Shields Up!, Orders of Terra, Desolate, Captains TCG

[@Ksucantdie]

This is amazing reeeeet

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thanks!

[@PTJ6969]

I'm thinking of making a TCG centered around a dystopian future where humanity is placing their fate in the hands of an AI and its cohorts, in a battle against an AI army. Any ideas for game mechanics?

[@bejoykakkanatt2868]

i started to make a card game i finished set 1 season 1

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@tzera_rhuon]

The issue I'm having currently is that I have several mechanics down yet do not have a theme to wrap around them, which to me feels more difficult than creating in reverse.

[@deliciousfirstsip]

Just be creative Remember it's YOUR game, so anything goes.

[@devinlipker3572]

I want to do a mythology and gods tcg but the things I want to do with does sound right do you have any that can help.

[@xlightningcraft138]

I’m working on a tcg The Dark Legends

[@randomrants148]

I was randomly doodling my arts that might be or not be in my trading card game. I have this sort of idea of post-apocalyptic fantasy to see whatever fits and I do have a lore in my head how the post-apocalyptic started while people are looking for magical artifacts and... I make it up as go is that bad?

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

No that’s good! That’s pretty much how I started and adding new ideas as you go just means you can keep expanding on the game!

[@randomrants148]

@@ChaosGalaxyTCG My art style never changed even if I practice's or not it's been years since I draw. my mother said "bad drawing or good what makes it unquie to the art of the game." something like that.

[@randomrants148]

What size I should draw my cards? @@ChaosGalaxyTCG

[@roberts7883lv]

How to come up with ideas for rules?

[@poke-episodes5711]

Imagination

[@krishyhuman]

In my opinion I have a very good tcg idea but it doesn't have a lot of things you talked about and I'm wondering if that would make it less appealing in a way.

[@thedrawingfella2120]

Great content.

[@SquirrelBoy140]

Chaos galaxy : if you make a game about just one subject like knights, it wont be good. Me making a tcg about squirrels and it working perfectly fine and having made hundreds of cards: uh huh...

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@gachabunnybear652]

I love squirrels so I would definitely love to play that! What’s it called?

[@SquirrelBoy140]

@@gachabunnybear652 Squirrel buddies (I made a beta like a few years ago)

[@gachabunnybear652]

SquirrelBoy140 cool! Is it available anywhere to play?

[@SquirrelBoy140]

@@gachabunnybear652 no

[@silvastone1691]

Well I'm in Quarantine and I got no job and all the time in the world... let's see what I come up with, I have some ideas

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@balprime6398]

Hi can you try to make a dinosaur starter deck in set three?

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

That would be really cool, although i kind of try to stay away from 'earthly' creatures and want to focus on more alien things in chaos galaxy, i'll definitely have a think about dinos tho!

[@luckylizard999]

What is your editing software entitled?

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

I use Imovie on my macbook

[@luckylizard999]

Sorry I should have been more specific, I meant the editing software for your cards

[@yager545]

Make a video on how you were able to sell them

[@mellobg7235]

I would need for my game name and the elements That why I am watching this video of the TCG

[@mixedup4840]

Thank you!

[@gaminganimators7000]

I'm making a card game inspired by halloween, cryptids, horror movies and games and stuff like that. If anyone wants to, can someone give me some ideas. I've got 4 types of cards, characters, weapons, abilities and events.

[@gaminganimators7000]

Someone seriously liked but never replied? Omg lol

[@zackattack5414]

I had not worked on my tcg for about a month so I went back to work on it... I WAS MAKING CARDS LEFT AND RIGHT... then all the sudden I was burned out.

[@l0vemarcia]

i cant think of any names for my monster and cant even think for arts so pls reply to my comment on what should i do

[@amor1305]

ItsShield just try to be creative. If you cant think of a name, then jot them done and one will come to you. Be calm, you’ll get there👍🏼

[@esthervelez9255]

I made a card game before but I lost all the cards so ima remake the game with more rules and a anime to go for the game

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@atlasthehost313]

Hay thank for that

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

No problem!

[@azzyanimations7133]

nice job

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Thanks!

[@sobiausman1187]

how do i buy cards from u?

[@gachabunnybear652]

There’s 2 links in the description of the video to get the cards!

[@Acefdiamonds]

12:31 is what I'm doing

[@gachabunnybear652]

I hope it’s going well! I started my first tcg a couple of days ago!

[@RamMustard]

Can i get a link for the discord server?

[@kathryneastwood312]

Dark crystal is the best thing since sliced fly

[@kanelinden9400]

I was going to make a TCG but I lost passion after I made like 20 cards

[@deliciousfirstsip]

Sorry to hear that. Making the cards is the funnest part.

[@jack_bale]

Hello!!

[@Zackylo_D_Mofo]

You should do tourneys irl

[@antoniochristie1231]

Add a ghost planet

[@williamtigre7747]

It’s live one price with devil fruit

[@tabithaneufeld5044]

you should make a de archetype forsay je

[@ChaosGalaxyTCG]

Haha that’s a good idea! 26 different cards with every letter called _e 😂

[@Sid_editz56]

my inspiration is you and i already created a creature

[@mr.ruffleruffleruffles104]

Spirited away is the best movie ever and this fact is not open for negotiation

[@gaminganimators7000]

Ok, so?