The far, far future

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:46 pm

This is a vague recomendation, not honestly a suggestion. Perhaps at some point in the future this could be adapted for use for online CCGs? There is no decent generic CCG engine online, so I thought it worth suggesting, because if one gets made, you guys could probably do the best, cleanest job of it. If someone sees a good engine, please post it.
NOTE that I don't suggest this for anytime in the foreseeable future, just that I think it a good idea, maybe for a future project.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:59 pm

Interesting... How would you make the cards if it was "generic"? Scan them in perhaps...

You could play via e-mail with this...
CyberBoard

You would still have to make the cards, etc

Post by **trevor** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:06 pm

If you can come up with a list of requirements that the engine would do, we could perhaps look at building an engine for it to support building online card games.

In fact it would be kinda neat to allow the players to create their own mods to share.

rkathey · Post by **rkathey** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:13 am

CCG? I'm not familar with that term.

Post by **trevor** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:09 am

Card games, like magic, pokemon, duel masters, that kind of thing.

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:37 pm

Well, for openers it would need a way to set up multiple random decks of cards, from images, move them around, set states (tapped, equipped, energy attached, etc.) set a background image, show and hide cards, maybe allow effects to be applied to certain cards, and be able to destroy cards and look back through destroyed cards, recover destroyed cards, add tokens, and keep track of various things, life totals, etc. This was a very rough list of general CCG components, not a perfectly polished list. Also, I have only played Magic and a bit of Pokemon, two games, so I am not a general expert.

Emryys · Post by **Emryys** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:44 am

I found this for making the cards...

Magic Set Editor

It may have more uses

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:12 pm

<a href="http://mtglair.de/">This works too.</a> And it's in Java, which is nice. I haven't seen the other.[/url]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:24 pm

http://mtglair.de/ Dang it
Brisingre, the lazy

Post by **trevor** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:51 pm

Interesting. So we have two tools to make the cards, now just need an engine to play the game over the net

storyguide3 · Post by **storyguide3** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:11 pm

trevor wrote:Interesting. So we have two tools to make the cards, now just need an engine to play the game over the net

Looks like this might be one http://lackeyccg.com/

Post by **trevor** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:24 pm

Looks like someone beat us to it

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:39 pm

trevor wrote:

Looks like someone beat us to it

You guys could beat this. This needs plugins to adapt to different games, because it (i think) has the rules for each game it plays built in to it, and you could probably do a generic one that will work for most CCGs just like MapTool works for about any conceivable RPG. I, at least, would prefer this.

Zulithe · Post by **Zulithe** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:43 pm

Speaking of card games, I think it would be nifty if we had an add-on or seperate program to play Three-Dragon Ante in our online games.

Just a pipe-dream, of course.

*edit* looks like LackeyCCG would be perfect for this! I just found myself a new bookmark. */edit*