Card Creatures v0.2.3

New in this version:

• Debug menu for testing! - now you can select at the start which rules you want to use and if you want to play both hands or play against the dumb AI.
• Plus rule - similar to the Same rule; if any two facing values of the played card form equal sums with the values they are facing, the two adjacent cards are both captured.
• Congratulatory message when cards are captured with Same or Plus.

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Insect candidates for further development

Here are the bugs I would like to further develop:





Since we both had the elongated fly/bee/thing one of us will have to give it up because the designs are just too similar. Um neither of us really have a spider (I don't know if that's a problem just something I'm pointing out). I was thinking next week we'd further develop 1 on our insects and take it all the way to the final color piece. I think we agreed that the dragon example was the style we wanted to go for because it could be done in a short amount of time.

Tell me what you think!

Insect choices!!

Ok the green dots are the ones I decided to further develop on :3 Do you think these will be fine? I might incorporate certain small features of something similar but a bit different but it won't be TOTALLY different xD

 just 1 more so i guess it came out 8? but its ok i'll take one off if you want or fuse etc
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What style?

This, again, is something I should have posted last week D: but I think we really need to talk about the style we are going to go with for the cards. I was looking at some images as examples and I want you to tell me what you think Lai.






Martin said he wanted it to be more fantasy-like (we discussed this a little last week) Um I'm thinking that the dragon one is a good example of something we could do in a pretty short amount of time (because it's just basically a silhouette with only a little color). Though I do like the goat creature one with the environment in the background as well but I think that would be harder for us to do. And the last one is probably just too complex/realistic for us xD.

Let me know what you think D:

MORE insect silhouettes

Here are two pages I was able to do sorry for posting them like A WEEK LATE. For mine, I think I would like to develop the praying mantis, one of them fly/bee things, and the slug with the spikey shell. Which of yours would you like to further develop lai? I think we need to get at least a scorpion and spider in here.

Insects thumbnails/silhouettes

Hey everyone!
These are some of my Insect monster silhouettes/doodle? Just to throw out some ideas. So you guys can tell me if its the direction you guys were going for? or some of your favorite or even what do you suggest? :D

I also didn't know how much to do? so here are they, but I could do more? :3

EDIT: here are some more pages and the first 2 pages I added more in certain empty spaces because it was bugging me xD

Yaaaa there you go :3

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Martin's favorites:

Card leveling ideas

One of the ideas I've been thinking about a lot for Card Creatures is to have a player's cards "level up" when they are used a lot. As an rpg fan this naturally appeals to me (and could be similar to the leveling system in Tetra Master), but I also think it opens up some interesting gameplay possibilities. In particular it could be fun if you got more points for capturing a high level card than a low level one.

We have already discussed the idea of cards being created in basic categories of increasing strength. This would probably mean that a strong card would start out at a higher level than a weak card, though the weak card could be leveled up through use to be more competitive.

The main problem I see with this idea is that the game rules would then need to reflect the higher-numbers-are-better idea, since you may remember this not always being the case in Triple Triad, where you could lose to a couple of well placed weak cards with rules such as Plus or Same-Wall.