So happy you pulled a holo Kohdok!!! (literally a 1/550 chance per pack)

The art style and background almost have an Earthbound feel.

@FunkyRhymez

Ай бұрын

agreed the background of hive swarm looking like blurry sunflower field. it reminds me of the backgrounds on the first couple sets of pokemon. lots of great nostalgia here.

I feel like the art direction could work, simple and cute like Hello Kitty or Tamagotchi but with a retro twist like Earthbound or Undertale. Needs more cartoony, comical and overexaggerated charaters, like Digital Circus or Gogo's Crazy Bones.

Like everyone else is saying, it’s unfortunate the art is not too appealing. I would’ve loved the art be more like the 3D low poly characters in the KS trailer doing something more dynamic. It would’ve been so cool, like having Mii-esque characters in whimsical wii play/party kind of situations

Hate to beat a dead horse, but I really hoped between 'beta' and release the art would have improved.

thank you for appreciating all the little details Kohdok :)

Seems like a game that opts for simple art and focuses more on the mechanics. I can appreciate that.

Just discovered your channel a couple days ago because of Beast Clans, you are awesome! This content is like candy to me! Can’t wait to order a box of junk lol

So cool to see you on a card!

The art is refreshing! Its nice to take a break from all the now generic MTG and Pokemon art styles. I am sure they will do something more snazzy in the future but amongst all the indie card games that are active this stands out. The art style seems inspired by Hideyuki Tanaka or artists that contributed to Y2K art.

I don't know exactly why, but I just don't like the font they used for the card names. It might be that it's overly square, or that the lack of serifs make them blend together. Again, not sure. Maybe it's just unfortunate that "Kohdok" in that font just looks hard to read.

Gym blenders looks cool. I’ve been following them through your channel every time you talk about them. Another developer and I have been working on a TCG for over 12 years and would like to get your input. What is the best way to reach out to you?

Question : will you cover Fool's Blade once it releases or is it too Boardgame ?

Gives Metazoo vibes but it probably actually plays well.

What is the card size compared to other TCGs?

@benflorence5513

Ай бұрын

Standard (poker) size

I love this art style, we need more card games that aren't scared to do something new instead of a magic wannabe

Do you think this game has a chance to become competitive and become as or almost as popular as other TCGs?

@Kohdok

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure that's their intention.

Clearly a lot of passion went into it, a shame everything about it is telling me to avoid.

@GemBlenders

2 ай бұрын

Oh no! Why so?

yoooooooooooooo

Woof. This art is roooough.

@yurisei6732

2 ай бұрын

Well, it is a game about rocks. Maybe over time the art will be refined, they'll improve the visual facets of the game and it'll become something with real polish.

Hm interesting premise. Usually games have pretty forgettable and interchangeable resource cards, but I get the impression that this game really makes the resources the centerpiece, where most of what you'll be doing is assembling the right resource cards. The way it affects colour combinations seems ambitious, I'm curious to see how they'll keep decks feeling as if they have unique identity when your minimum colours in a deck is half of all colours, rather than MTG's fifth or Pokemon's like eighth or something - and MTG and Pokemon both already struggle with this. Unfortunately the art style is a huge turn-off for me. A lot of indie games try to do the Yugioh thing where they have a blank background and just focus on the character, but that only works for Yugioh because Yugioh has a very small art box and very good artists. This game has gone for a huge art box with tiny, heavily stylised picture, which makes them look like drafts. Especially in combination with the spell cards having no art at all. Actually here's a weird take: I think this game could be a "mini" game, with adorable little 5cm x 6cm cards, like those split cards MTG used to do. So much of the card frame is unused so it wouldn't require text compression to do this, and then the art would feel much more appropriate. Also, inherent card-based deckbuilding restrictions needs to die. A lot of the recent indie game wave do this and I hate it. Just let me build my own deck, and if you're making cards so powerful you feel the need to pre-emptively restrict them, maybe just don't make those cards. By making them and restricting them, you're just introducing a hard RNG element where as your game powercreeps, that coin toss of whether or not a good card shows up becomes more and more influential.

@benflorence5513

Ай бұрын

This is very insightful. Would love to chat more about this!

@shumanbeans

Ай бұрын

what do you mean by "inherent card-based deckbuilding restrictions"?

@yurisei6732

Ай бұрын

@@shumanbeans Like "You can only include 1 copy of this type of card in your deck" or "You must include exactly 4 copies of this type of card in your deck".

Okay.

Hmm

Everyone here freaking g out because it’s not your normal art. It has a lot of room to grow. But one unique art that this game has is some of the most unique foil designs to make up for the minimalistic art.

@yurisei6732

2 ай бұрын

There's only so much that foiling can do though. You can get foil wrapping paper too, and when the art isn't desirable, those are functionally the same thing - the only merit is in the shininess.

Wish all the cards didn't look so lame and bland because the game actually seems pretty good and fun. Shame. But indie games have to sacrifice something at some point and I'm glad they sacrificed style and interesting card art if it resulted in a good game overall.

@kagemushashien8394

2 ай бұрын

Well they did that on purpose, you start of bland and clear, no colour, the gems not only give you powers but also colours, making them more impactful on the board. Perhaps they need to explain it better. Or make the blandess look good.

@yurisei6732

2 ай бұрын

@@kagemushashien8394 The problem isn't the theme, it's the style. You're not actually telling a story of bland becoming brilliant when your final cards are the same ugly "gnomes in costumes" as your first cards. The only thing changing is the colour of the background.

@kagemushashien8394

2 ай бұрын

@@yurisei6732 So, just change the art aesthetic?

@bryce7344

2 ай бұрын

@@kagemushashien8394 Oh I get what they were trying to go for, it just isn't done well. Something closer to a black and white sketch growing into full colorful art seems really nice in theory, but this game just has horrible art direction when the cards seem made to show art well but just... don't. Also the borders, text boxes, etc. are all generic even for the final colorful art, it lacks style here. I think they had a good idea that wasn't executed well, making everything look cheap.

@kagemushashien8394

2 ай бұрын

@@bryce7344 How to find ones style, I'm looking for mine aswell.

Still looks better than MetaZoo, though that isn't saying much at all.

Looks really interesting, but sadly the art is a major turn off for me. It looks like John Kovalic but with less personality, and the black&white spell cards look a bit depressing.

Never trust a video from a reviewer that has a card in the game.

@dumbjakeworld

2 ай бұрын

Tbf I'm pretty sure he covered it, and then they made him a card. Plus he dropped Metazoo even though they made him a card too. Kohdok is a trustworthy guy!

Sorry but this art repels me. Same thing with metazoo

@Yinyanyeow

2 ай бұрын

Trust me, gameplay can beat visual problems. Just got to be good ones.

@Zutang777

2 ай бұрын

But the guy who designed this trying his best to keep these super simplistic and not to exciting. It’s a design choice that’s not working out.

@initiative28

2 ай бұрын

I don't find the art to be actually ugly like some of MetaZoo's was, but I do find it to be repellant at the $89 per box price tag.

The art style is so boring though...