[This is part 5 of my Study of Digital Card Games series.]
As I mentioned at the beginning of this series, I have been working on a digital CCG for several years now. As a lover of the genre — I've been playing Magic for about 20 years, and I tried as many other CCGs as I could — I want to create a game that is truly special, and different from its competition. Time will tell if I can succeed at that! Until then, here are some lessons that I've learned working on my game.
[This is part 4 of my Study of Digital Card Games series.]
Now that we have a good grasp of what the major games of the digital CCG genre are, it's time for me to do my best analyzing it. In this article I'm going to look at the common points, what defines CCGs nowadays, then the differences, where CCGs tried to innovate, and finally I'll give a shot at guessing where the next innovations can be.
By Adrian on Tuesday, 9 February 2021 at 10:00 - Souls - one comment
[This is part 3 of my Study of Digital Card Games series.]
Last time we explored the rise of the digital CCG genre. Let's now go over the end of its golden years, to get a good picture of all the major card games as of today.
By Adrian on Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 10:00 - Souls - 2 comments
[This is part 2 of my Study of Digital Card Games series.]
The first notable CCG that made it to the digital space was, guess who, Magic! There have been several software allowing to play the game on a computer, but the first to embrace online play was Magic: The Gathering Online, shortened as MTGO and released in 2002. The pitch is simple: it is exactly the same game, but playable on a computer with folks from all around the globe. It is still active today.
[This is part 1 of my Study of Digital Card Games series.]
In my intro to this series, I said I was going to focus on card games that were digital-first. Let's start with a mandatory exception to that rule: when Magic: The Gathering was released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, it was not (yet) a digital card game. It is, however, the Holy Father of CCGs. It is the starting point of the genre, and thus we need to start this journey with it.
Collectible Card Games, shortened as CCGs, are a kind of card games that I have been playing for a pretty long time. I started with the Pokémon CCG when I was about 10, then got into Magic: The Gathering a few years later. I'm still playing Magic regularly today, about 20 years after I got into it. But as soon as I started playing them, I also started creating card games. I remember working on a card game on my family's computer back when I was, what, 11 years old? Since then, the idea of creating games, and creating a card game especially, never left me.
By Adrian on Tuesday, 22 December 2020 at 10:00 - Actualités - one comment
2020 a été une année charnière pour moi. J'ai quitté Mozilla et je me suis lancé à temps plein dans l'aventure dont je rêve depuis longtemps : créer des jeux professionnellement.
Inspiré par mon auteur favori, Brandon Sanderson, qui publie chaque année son « State of the Sanderson », j'ai décidé d'écrire moi aussi une évaluation de mon année 2020. Le but est double. Pour moi, il s'agit de prendre du recul sur ce que j'ai fait, de m'auto-tapoter sur l'épaule et d'aborder l'année suivante avec confiance, en sachant ce que je suis capable de faire. Pour vous, j'espère que ce sera une manière agréable de suivre mes différents projets, et d'en apprendre un peu plus sur les processus créatifs derrière mes productions. N'hésitez pas à me faire des retours sur cette formule en commentaire, sur ce qui vous plaît ou pas, ou sur ce que vous auriez aimé voir.
C'est parti pour l'évaluation de mon année 2020 !
By Adrian on Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 10:00 - Souls - 2 comments
Après vous avoir présenté ma « grande aventure » et expliqué pourquoi je voulais créer une entreprise coopérative, voici le moment de détailler mon plan de création de studio. Et je passe également un appel à me rejoindre à celles et ceux qui seraient intéressé⋅e⋅s par cette aventure !
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