Hello everyone! Finally, my life's stable enough so that I don't need to come here to empty my bag of complaints. Today I want to write about something I've had in my head for a long time now. It's a card game focused on strategic positioning and object control. This all started because my boss asked me to make a Design Brief for a card game. I was really interested in this kind of games by the time, so I accepted. But since the time for this was so limited I ended up relying too much in genre conventions. Because of this, I felt the context couldn't contain the kind of combat I decided to use in the brief. There was a huge disconnect. And this has been coming and going from my mind since then. So I decided to put an end to this and start working on a design that could solve this. Hence the focus on positioning and object control. There's another ingredient in the mix but it's quite difficult to explain and has a lot to do with a system that I'm
A Game Developer journal.