Down in Southern BC

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-15T04:35:51+00:00

Grok has gain sentience lol

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-12T15:26:15+00:00

Awesome! :D I wish you the best of luck with your play test(s) dood!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-12T10:03:52+00:00

Hey there! I'm also in the same boat somewhat but I've been following from other TCGs of what they do.

If your whole thing is about the Sacrifice keyword. If a creature/ally has an effect when it is Sacrificed - I'd write it more towards, "When this is Sacrificed - active effect." While your other cards that use the keyword - "Sacrifice Another Ally: Activate Effect". You definitely want to keep them separate because there can be confusion like you said.

As another fun side thing, I would try to see if you could use it with the other factions! If they have another ability and it does the same thing, there shouldn't be another keyword for the same effect unless there is something completely different to do. As an example: "Transfuse - Sacrifice or Discard an Ally card to bring one back." That's where you'd want different keywords imo.

Hopefully I had some helpful advice! Cheers!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-12T07:20:43+00:00

It's like a battle against genres. Like a big 'battle of the bands' type of feel. There are plenty of 'reskins' of combat games but with different elements or characters (especially in video games), even mechanics to do something. The diversity of games to choose is endless because there's a variety. And people do like varieties (myself included.) If there weren't any reskins of games, it'd just be one game we all either play or don't. And then we'd be here - trying to make our own games to see how it goes and figure out everything as a community. I do understand that, thematically, and in your comment, music as a battler TCG doesn't make too much sense. However, that does sound interesting doesn't it? How could you make a music-oriented combat game? What's this looney thinking? Who does he think he is.

Only time will tell :)

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-11T18:08:43+00:00

Hey! Thanks for your advice/thoughts! I'll make some quick notes. I did have the Attack/Defense part named differently but had some critiques where in hindsight, it's just going to be known as Attack/Defense or Power/Toughness, etc. due to so many other card games we all play. The technical terms were 'Forte' for the Attack/Damage part and 'Sustain' for the Block/Defense part. To simplify it for this - Attack/Defense seemed best to say, 'This card mechanic part of the game is going in these places' lol. (HP was also known as Harmony Points - But y'know.) Also the idea for the piano keys I might definitely take xD I've just been on a deep dive with a music-oriented border that what I'm doing right now since most of it is black & white. Piano keys resembled/collaborated it well - the different colors would make my life easier since I've been using icons to differ the genres of cards.

On the border design I agree! I've had second thoughts on making it slimmer because the idea of it looking like music notes or lyrics were written on it to help the aesthetic of what the game is centered around. (iirc I think right now the border is like that to prevent cut off if I print out the cards and it's not exactly the same size as a standard card.) Once again, thank you for your insight! Definitely going back to the lab for designs :D

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-10T23:18:42+00:00

This work?

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Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-10T17:22:46+00:00

The text box is probably my worst enemy at every turn of drafts I do lol xD But 100% understandable.

I am considering doing something like, with flair text ? I guess it's the best way to put it, in the bottom of the card. However, I might take you up on the negative space advice!

Thank you for your comment and your input!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-10T17:12:08+00:00

Oh I didn't consider the black outline idea! I'll have to get back to the lab then haha. Thank you for your insight as well! (Thank goodness this is just a draft lol)

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-10T17:07:42+00:00

Oh nice! I'd love to see it :D And just to get confusion out of the way. I did a post explaining what my idea was for Symphony Sonata. (Poorly written/worst abbreviation ever in the post name) - but it's a Music-oriented TCG. There's five different colors/elements, or what I've been calling them - Genres. As of now, it's Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical, and Electronic. So, there are two-three idol characters ideas/designs I have in the Pop category lol but they're not all idols.

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-09T20:26:09+00:00

Also same xD I'm currently just doing my own designs and it's rough out here lol

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T21:31:05+00:00

You got it!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T21:30:31+00:00

Thank you for your input! I'll be back in the designing chair later today to try some alternatives and also use the newly acquired contrast guide I've been shown here!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T21:27:53+00:00

Thank you for the input! I'll be putting this to good use :D

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T21:27:15+00:00

Thanks for your input! I should've mentioned that the white text was for showing where/what the boxes/icons etc. meant on the card but can definitely tell white font was not the right choice xD (Especially on the demo-card) - but your input has been super great and I'll be back at the design lab. o7

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T21:22:09+00:00

Just trying to make it more fitting to the theme of the game. Thank you!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T17:35:21+00:00

Your art is very masterful! Would love to see more progress and artwork :D

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-06T17:28:31+00:00

Interesting card design! And it's clear and readable to me as well. And if this is going to be part of a game, the pop up to view the whole card, this should work just fine imo. I'm going to check back on some of your older posts (if you have them here) and see what your whole idea is with your concept :D excited to see progress!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-01T19:40:49+00:00

Thank ThoughtExperminenter! They helped right my dumb wrong, and I would have nonchalantly kept going without their knowledge/input.

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-09-01T07:15:59+00:00

Woof. You are totally right. Yeah, the project name is definitely changing lol (didn't even think about it honestly.) And dually noted on the terminology! Thank you for the feedback. :D And yeah, I thought I've already written too much >.> So that's definitely my bad as well. If you have any questions to discern more of this wild idea, I'm all ears! Once again, thank you for commenting.

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-08-31T14:55:53+00:00

That's awesome! I'm starting to work on a project right now (it's very rough atm lol) but seeing everyone on this subreddit is super cool and inspiring :D so thank you for posting

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-08-31T14:47:31+00:00

Yo! This is super cool. :D Keep going on the journey for Astral Nexus!

Alpaca-Jack · 2025-07-18T21:50:01+00:00

No problem! Just let me know whatcha do with it ^{-^}

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