From what I heard the Lorcana situation was actually the other way around. Upper Deck was making the TCG Rush of Ikorr, and then one of the team, Ryan Miller, took some of the mechanics and went to Ravensburger and Disney to get a license to make a Lorcana. It might look the other way around since Ravensburger was able to get Lorcana out first.

Your advice is up there with kodok big help for getting my game rules and mechanics balanced

@knoxvillecl

4 ай бұрын

But his advice is better. Kohdok used to advice buying metazoo cuz "it's a great game" and that aged poorly.

@tapntcg

4 ай бұрын

i never liked nor bought meta zoo because it feels something is missing from it, Unfinished and poorly managed but that dosent mean it didnt have people who thought the opposite it had potental, but even so i still hold kodok around the same base with shards insite because kodok gives an honest review on product and explains important tips on marketing presentation and a genuine gameplay review and shards videos are in a different niche of tcg breakdown where he explains how to make the game dos and donts ,they are two sides of one coin watching both of those channels gave my tcg game balance and i appreciate em both equally.

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. That is a nice comparison. Just to be mentioned in the same sentence as Kohdok is a big wow for me. Thanks again.

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. I hope none of my advice ages poorly.

@tapntcg

4 ай бұрын

@@ShardTCGNo problem! N Lmao me neither

Building a community. Don't worry about doing it fast. Find just 1 person interested in your game. Get them hooked. Now you have two evangelists. Find a third. So on. Focus on keeping those fans interested and more will come. It is better to have a few people love your game than a lot who think it's meh.

26:05 Well done for staying humble and not getting defensive.

I got about 30 cards and made good progress for a months work. I like the idea people had started with making board games. I have a dozen board games I made and could incorporate parts of them into my card game.

@p3rditious638

4 ай бұрын

I also started with board and card games (I have around 18-20) and it definitely helped me. Especially around game pacing and, in testing my board and card games, working out how others might think about or interpret my rulesets and language used

Always providing awesome knowledge and content. Card games definitely don't have to be influenced by other card games like you said you can take something from a board game. For instance, my skills actually come from going to school to learn about game design and programming. So my influence for the card game I have now is actually influenced by different video games. And when I say different video games? I mean in terms of mechanics that I'm using. I played the big three growing Up, And I have some Inspiration from those but I really think that you don't necessarily have to follow it take ideas from them and implement them how you can to fit your game and learn from them. This is for anyone that feels like you have to fall into that mold of doing that. And even if people don't believe in what you're doing or say, it's a terrible idea. Just keep doing it because if it makes you happy to do it. That's what really counts. Also, like you said, you know you're in a battle against the player. And that's awesome because it helps you grow and figure out what makes the card game work and what your audience loves about it.

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

Good insight, thanks. It's awesome that you went to school to learn game design. I'm a little jealous.

Awesome video as always! I really appreciate the talk tcg series and it really helps me with creating my game. You always have some usefull insight in every video that I end up using for myself. Thanks alot!

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I'll keep trying to bring fresh insight. Though it is getting harder not to repeat myself. But sometimes a refresher helps, too.

ngl, when you said "sometimes you're not in an artistic mood", legit thought you said "sometimes you're not in an autistic mood", and i was just thinking "you can't exactly turn autism off", then i realised. Fantastic advice btw :)

@ShardTCG

3 ай бұрын

Careful. You'll attract someone who thinks they can identify as autistic because they "feel" autistic sometimes 😂

A question I had, is what do you feel about a TCG about real life creatures? For example, bugs and so on. I grew up in a household where MTG and pokemon were banned because of the demonic side of MTG and the evolution side of pokemon. So I had an idea for a card game where people could enjoy it even if they grew up in a household like mine. I know not everyone grew up like I did but I also wanted to include those that did too

@sawderf741

2 ай бұрын

Have you heard about the game Redemption? It's the second oldest tcg still in print.

Woohoo! thanks for the tips! always useful!

hey great video! The idea of homemade indie TCG reviews sounds like a great video series!

@neuroscape

2 ай бұрын

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE! :)

Beautiful video man!! Thank you so much for that!

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love these videos super helpful!

@ShardTCG

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

TCG is just a distribution model. Can you do an analysis video of other distribution model options for deckbuilding card games?

@sawderf741

2 ай бұрын

Deck building card games are a lot more like board games as far as buyers are concerned.

You have to tell us! How did you make such a beautiful website!? And are there templates out there we can buy/download?!!

@ShardTCG

2 ай бұрын

Oooh, the website is Richard's creation. He built it from scratch and even built it with a Shard TCG card maker on the site. He has put 100s of hours into that site, and I couldn't tell you where to start to replicate it. Sorry about that.

Extremely off topic, but you're incredibly handsome.

22:33 Dont give them any ideas bRO!

Am i getting crucified for using ai in my game? Like, getting a baseline for the image and use ai to improve the composition like game devs do when creating skill icons.

@DragonsTCG

4 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what the community as a whole thinks about it, but in my game I use ai art for all of my cards. The actual design/template is created by me but again the artworks are ai. I think it is a great option especially if you want hight quality art or if you can't draw (like me). I think it is a medium like any other, but I understand that some people consider it stealing (which i dont) and might get upset. The game tainted legacy tcg does exactly what you describe and you could see if he has any thought on the matter.

@Abagail_ari

4 ай бұрын

I'm tryin to remember a quote from this KZreadr who said in his stream. I think it's something like, "I don't care how it was made. If the game is good, I'll play it." Use whatever you need. If you don't have the time, skill, money, or patience to draw, have drawn, or Photoshop'd, then use AI. Focus your talents on the rules, gameplay, expansions, lore, mechanics, etc.. But, since you're not devoting time to the art, everything else better be awesome!

@ShardTCG

4 ай бұрын

There is a stigma around using ai art. It removes skill to just generate images. Aesthetics matter, but the game design in how it plays is MORE important. So continue with what you are doing. If it is a good game with fun, engaging mechanics, then your audience will not care where the art comes from.

14:49 my old chick

What's the best way to play test a card game if you don't know anybody to play test your game with? It would be nice to get some feedback from someone else in regards to how my game is going rather than have to start from scratch every time I have doubts about how a certain mechanic works.

@monopoliz___2856

4 ай бұрын

Try playing chess as solitaire and play competitive against yourself. I did this with magic the gathering playing one d3ck as solitaire versus itself to. Can see it's strengths and weaknesses. Could upload a solo gameplay to KZread to rewatch it and analyze it

@monopoliz___2856

4 ай бұрын

I playtest3d a few of my my risk type board games solo back.in the day with a patron tequila or cognac

@MathewGX

4 ай бұрын

@@monopoliz___2856 That's part of the problem I run into. I'll design a system that seems good, play test a few games by myself, and end up rewriting the entire rulebook some time down the line. It's hard for me to discern on my own which ideas are worth keeping and which ideas are worth scrapping.

@rlwarner777

4 ай бұрын

Did you check on Meetup for groups that are for board game crafters? Although any group of board gamers would play your game if the rules were fleshed out.

@niceguy66alain

4 ай бұрын

you can also play online with table top similar or untap...im pretty sure there are more out there too

Do you think it’s OK to use AI art ?

@sawderf741

2 ай бұрын

For test cards yes. But AI uses other artists assets without permission. The AI can only function by using other artists artwork.

@sawderf741

2 ай бұрын

Whether you use AI art is up to you. I don't think using invalidates your game. Your game is still unique.

@IMPOSTERPEELY

2 ай бұрын

@@sawderf741 I’m not planning on using AI I was but I felt like it wouldn’t be my game

wow i never knew you can't copyright your mechanics... no wonder so many new games are so similar to mtg and digimon... kinda of a let down as i have created a game with pretty unique mechanics, it feels so much different from the big 3 T.T i was hoping i could've copyrighted the mechanics / gameplay as a whole

26:05 Well done for staying humble and not getting defensive.