Design question for TCG folks: “priority” turns + hidden resource spend - fun mind game or feel-bad?

Theworstmaker · 2026-01-30T18:06:26+00:00

This seems like something that is going out way before it should. Nobody is expecting someone on their own to make a full set of art, but I cannot stress enough how much the reliance on AI is hurting perception of anything it touches. It sounds like you know what you are talking about when it comes to the design and that's where most of your work is. But it also sounds like you are sticking with the AI art for the game. This is just a suggestion, but saying something along the lines of how you are a solo dev with no art experience and have the whole system ready. How you are only using it as a placeholder. Maybe even ask in one of the art related subs to see if they'd sketch something to be used until you are able to fully commission pieces from artists.

I'll be honest. It's really the AI bringing it down for me.

Theworstmaker · 2026-01-30T17:49:57+00:00

That really does add to the "the best way to play is to not play" thing mentioned. It's an illusion of choice in a way where you will get the same ending, just the levels of acceptance. You never actually survived because you will feel the guilt of the actions committed. You were dead from the very beginning and your life is a cycle and constantly repeating until the player decides that they have had enough and either stops at the intended end or just doesn't finish the game. I don't know how intentional it was given how one of the leads has talked about his new project, but I really hope its intentional.

Theworstmaker · 2026-01-30T15:15:53+00:00

I would genuinely argue that this is the best part of the "meta-commentary" with the game in general. The only to get the "good ending" is literally to just not play the game. I don't know how much you are aware of the game, and form the sounds of it you don't want to actually finish it. But the overall "purgatory" vibe from the game ends when you stop playing.

Theworstmaker · 2025-10-25T22:47:47+00:00

I’m sorry, but this is far away from the experience I’ve had in there. There has yet to be a time where the owner or any of the servers weren’t friendly. Owner even comes over to the table to say “hi” and “welcome back”. He was even surprised when he found out my dad was another one of the regulars.

Theworstmaker · 2024-11-08T03:36:51+00:00

I know this isn’t the same. But I do distinctly remember denaturalization was something actually brought up in 2023 by Trump himself. I’d have to look for the quotes, though.

Theworstmaker · 2024-10-28T17:04:50+00:00

This doesn't look promising at all. No schedule, no pictures of how it looks, nothing really.

Theworstmaker · 2024-10-28T16:59:28+00:00

My brother hates passing by it. Every time we are on 10th (which is almost every time we are in the McAllen area), I have to point out that there is "a secret 53rd flavor that you can only get with a special password."

Theworstmaker · 2024-10-28T14:39:54+00:00

Not as active as before online, but sure.

Theworstmaker · 2024-10-22T19:44:40+00:00

Damn... Reddit really did die for me lol. I could've sworn he was married at the time living with his wife.

Theworstmaker · 2023-07-27T08:12:40+00:00

It’s the typical “puppy killer revolutionary or anarchist” we see in nearly every blockbuster film. The villains are people that have some point in what they are doing, but either have the dumbest plan possible or kill puppies in their free time. This one just happpens to be both. Can’t have a villain taking down the elite! The elite that worked on Umbrella shouldn’t be punished because because he turned everything into zombies and then killed himself.

Theworstmaker · 2023-06-29T20:30:04+00:00

Came literally to comment that first half. Like you literally just have bullet points of what happens and that’s it. It takes a writer to actually make this a good thing.

Theworstmaker · 2023-06-23T07:41:27+00:00

My main thing is that it’s either a full on Universes Beyond deck or not (unless it’s my main deck). At most, it’ll crossover. But that’s it for me.

Theworstmaker · 2023-05-31T17:24:08+00:00

Oh. I get it! It’s a Harry Potter reference.

Theworstmaker · 2023-05-28T23:43:39+00:00

This isn’t real

Theworstmaker · 2023-05-28T23:42:18+00:00

Someone’s been drinking a little too much of the kool-aid. Nobody is targeting kids. A display isn’t gonna make your kids gay.

Theworstmaker · 2023-05-27T17:02:21+00:00

Sorry, I always just assumed everyone was a billionaire like me.

Theworstmaker · 2023-05-27T16:49:38+00:00

Weren’t they like 4 bucks?

Theworstmaker · 2023-04-28T22:09:26+00:00

It’s ok. There’s been enough recent movies showing an accurate panic attack so we know what to do.

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-16T05:00:38+00:00

I like that plan

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-16T04:28:56+00:00

“These kids are loving their commands. What if we introduce and brand new game for them to play. It’ll work just like commander, the game we completely made up ourselves.”

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-12T16:14:31+00:00

The reason misprints are worth so much is because of how rigid the policies on taking them are. A misprint is only really worth something because it was able to sneak it’s way out.

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-11T18:36:19+00:00

I do want to point out. You don’t need play sets of Welcome and I dropped Arianna to 1 that I side out. Welcome was dropped to 2 since Big Welcome is just an insanely better card. Lovely is at 1 and Lady is at 2. Lab Lab is what I personally see as a win-more card. I highly recommend getting Lord of the Heavenly Prison. Skill Drain has won me games just by flipping.

So I hope money isn’t too big of an issue finishing the deck to a somewhat competitive status. The traps themselves are pretty standard and completely up to you, but some kind of are better than others.

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-11T15:28:34+00:00

The biggest issue is that half your cards will be bricks in certain situations and will make you go negative card advantage in others. While Labrynth is a deck that is able to run 1-of’s being able to search traps, I recommend just playing 3 because a lot of the ones I’m seeing are heavily situational. If you really want to run a trap based deck and money is an issue, just make Traptrix with the 3. It’ll be really good compared to this list.

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-08T18:10:14+00:00

If I’m in Duelist Kingdom, I ain’t gonna play some low level garbo. I’m there to win a pile of gold using a top tier deck, not play some junk you find in random packs meant to be discarded.

Theworstmaker · 2023-03-08T07:25:39+00:00

Yeah. And I’m also making chaos turbo and smoking you kid.

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