[52/60] Plague180 - XNA Card Game

[Kingdom Ablaze]

ive never heard of it

 

[Xhukari]

Well you may want to check it out, have a good feel for popular TCGs on the market, as it were.
http://www.shadowera.com/
I've played it, and loved it. Though I never did PvP much in it... not so good at building decks.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

ok, i played the game for a bit, i like the art, the game play is interesting, but i dont like long matches. i prefer games like elements (the one my game board, not game play) is based on www.elementsthegame.com

 

[Xhukari]

Haha, of course I've played that! I came across it about a year or two back, and shared it with the forum I visited at the time... that Elements thread had so many pages... #fadstarter.

I am wondering how you plan to program your AI... Are you just going to make it play to best it can, with what it has available, and then just give different AI stronger or weakly built decks for the 'difficulty', or are you going with the more traditional 'AI cheats' method for difficulty?

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

ya, i played elements back when it was new too, i almost think it was better then. as far as the AI i have a 3 level approach. The low level AI class handles all the super basic stuff like drawing cards, then the middle class handles the difficulty (mostly put limitations on the lower AI's to prevent them from being too good) and the upper level handles per deck strategy. Alot of people have thought that making deck specific AI is too time consuming, but my code is super modular and the top level AI isnt very long only a couple hundred lines and lot of it i can copy from 1 AI to the next. also i can make a deck/ AI and make huge changes in how it acts, just by switching the middle level AI it inherents from. example writing the code only once i can do:

BasicAI > Level3 > WaterSpiritAI and then: BasicAI > Level5 > WaterSpiritAI

so with the same deck and same higher level AI class, it would act super different.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

lots of work put into making my game work with Wix XNA Installer, it was a pain in the ass, but well worth the work, it makes things a million times easier by installing any missing prereqs for me

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

Changed default resolution to 1280X720, fixed alignment issues caused by the change of resolution, optimized some draw code (mostly board effects and creatures in play), fixed bug with ai playing flood and it worked as if player had played it

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

Added support for summoned creatures, from both spells and activated abilities. optimized some draw code, mostly focused not letting my frame rate drop below 200, ill get around to a full cleaning latter. rotated AI cards in hand to look better, my artist insist it looks better, i cant argue. added support for dynamically rendered status effects (i hard coded them in previous screen shots), added a few fire cards to the database for testing, that went quite nicely, and finally finished the last water spell(magic hat)

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

added foil cards, here is my first test

 

[bacon]

I just wanted to say this game looks awesome. Seriously it is super cool and I love all of your mechanics. Great work.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

I just wanted to say this game looks awesome. Seriously it is super cool and I love all of your mechanics. Great work.

thanks, that makes me feel really good :D

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

Started working on the fire board effect (wild fire), got the graphics and alignment done, just need to finish the spell. added foil card support, see image below. updated the back of the card, improved my Bake code for summoned creatures, now they bake twice as fast.

side by side rain of fire, left normal, right foil (still working on fire illustrations)

side by side magic hat, left normal, right foil

new back of card

wildfire test on some pirates, still needs some work imo

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCmi8Th ... e=youtu.be

 

[Xhukari]

I see you're making some good progress here! Its looking pretty sharp. Foil effects are awesome.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

thanks, its just some additive blending with:

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

Lots and lots of bug fixes, mostly with font alignment and removing hard coded dumbness in favor of dynamic solutions.

i also made a project in development thread: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=77164

and a youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kCmi8ThjE8

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

im trying to put together some promotional stuff, what do you guys want to see most? i have lots of stuff i havent shared, ask anything about the game.

 

[coyotecraft]

Shouldn't you wait to do promotional stuff after the game is finished?

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

yes, but i also need more fans and people to help me test. with a little over 500 cards im sure there will be lots of balancing to do, and fix bugs if card combos dont work right

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

did alot of work on trying to get multiplayer to work