New Idea - Inflation CCG

Hrrmmm.... sounds good indeed, but there could be a more mature version too.
Just looking at some of the artwork used on CCG's makes me sad, a lot of it can be ridiculously good. ^_^;

Oh my goodness! Imagine an inflation based CCG that worked with the Playstation Eye!
Just like the Eye Of Judgement... you could have little 3D inflatable characters!

EEEEeeeeeeeee!! *dies*

I'd like to see. :D

I like how you have consistent rules, similar to other CCGs. ( I.E Enjoyment, ect...)

Cool Idea, and when I saw the cards I thought it might actually be cool to play (Maybe someone could program an online-play thing). There are a couple of comments I'd make:

1)Flight seems over powered. Not only does it give people an advantage with some cards, but it makes them immune to one of the TWO ways of winning the game. Maybe make Flight increase the Boyancy needed to float away from 4 to 6. That would be a great compromise.

2)Some cards need qualifiers, so that they aren't active all the time. For example, make it so BellyDemon can reform from popping ONCE A GAME, or other things.

3)New Concept: Instead of having a Boyancy Meter, have a Weight spectrum. Natural weight is zero. If you have 4 weight (from water or whatnot) then you are immobilized and lose. If you have 4 Boyancy then you float away. If you have weight, and gain boyancy, it reduces your weight until you hit "zero" and then you start gaining boyancy, and inversly if you have boyency, and gain weight, then your boyency goes down and until you hit zero, then your weight goes up.

4)Another new concept: Jumping. Jumping would give you all the card advantages of flight, but wouldn't effect your ability to float away, kind of like Halfway flight. (A card with Jumping could make full use of the City in the clouds, but could still float away.) This would let Airtank Girl still float away (as she doesn't ACTUALLY have flight in the stories) but still give her her mad jumping ability.

5)I know he may be the hardest person on the planet to get a hold of, but Fukureruba (a.k.a. Big horse) has some truly amazing works, though most are anthro/furry. If you don't mind putting that in your game, ask him.

Card ideas (I might be a while in making these, so feel free to make them if you have the time.)

"She'll come down eventually. . ."
Play this card ONLY on your main character and ONLY as a reaction to her floating away. Character's weight is set to zero, and she loses a number of inflation points equal to the amount of negative weight she had. You may only play this card once per game.

"Reformation Procedure"
Play this card ONLY on your main character and ONLY as a reaction to popping. Character looses ten points of inflation. If the character has 2 or more boyancy, increase their weight by 2. If the character has 2 or more weight, reduce their weight by 2. This card may only be played once per game.

"HELP!"
Play this card only if you have a sidekick. When this card enters play, chose a sidekick, and tap them. That sidekick remains tapped until this card leaves play or they do. Your Maximum weight is increased by 3, and your maximum boyancy is increased by 3.

EDIT Made a new template for character cards that you are free to use. Found Here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/Degausser/Template.jpg

I included a template and a sample person (Alyia) Here is how to read the card:

Name (Creator)
[image]
Gender(Species)-Type {A.K.A. Normal, magical, Science}
[card text, Inflation points followed by special abilities]
[Level of enjoyment graphic. The YELLOW box indicates starting level of enjoyment. Put a counter here to keep track]
[Left side of the Card: Weight graphic. Yellow box indicates starting weight. Put a counter here to keep track. B indicates Boyant (B3 means 3 levels of boyant). Numbers mean levels of weight. If you decide not to use the weight spectrum, you can redesign this to 12 levels of boyancy.]

Please note: If you decide to use this, please give credit using my other online handle "Agent Smith." Don't ask, long story, short version: I go by Agent Smith.

Not to be mean, but this is kind of the first thing that needed doing. :)

I helped build a CCG once; it got as far as playable prototype with placeholder art, but that was sort of the first stage: game design, not art design. We were commissioned to create one to test its feasibility for a comic book publisher who wanted one for their properties. Ultimately the game worked but was not all that much fun, so they said "thanks" and stopped the project when it seemed like it would not be worth it to enter the very competitive market.

So that's a long way of saying...can any of us play this with each other? Because otherwise, these cards should probably go into an electronic game, single- or multiplayer...and that, too, requires coming up with the game design first.

Making this work will be trickier than you think. Just be ready for a few months of deep game theory thought.

I remembered I had some files I uploaded to an old (and now defunct) Anthro inflation page, so I grabbed a couple of them and made some generic-ish sidekicks (as I noticed the game was lacking sidekicks.) As Dragon-6860 wasn't terribly pleased with my new card format, I used his old format, but added my own graphics, which I like. In the new "Me style" the Normal red Balloon is natural, the Red balloon with a potion is Science, and the red balloon with a star is Magic. I tried to 'balance' the cards with what was already available, but feel free to mod them as you see fit. Basically I made some low-costing characters but with some pretty big downsides.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/Degausser/Sidekicks.jpg

Maybe you could ask puffyseraph to post his template so others could create cards using it? Right now they are cool, but would only he has the template and I have a few action card ideas . . .

Of course, like any programmer, I've written Blackjack, but this is a completely new challenge.

I've heard that JAVA or Flash with XML is the best way to write this, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of docs out there to whip this kind of program up. I'm interested in the online multiplayer ccg project, since it's probably a lot easier than an MMORPG (earlier thread), provided that there's a good starting point. MMORPGs have good prefab engines that get you "jump started" in a couple of weeks, but I haven't found anything for CCGs.

I'm going to have a ton of time in a month or so, so I'm shopping for a project.

If anyone has any good docs out there for the development, PM me or post them.

Oof. The developer agreement requires a signature and a resume. Not something I would be a big fan of.

I was thinking about doing something with electro-server and flash, something that would work in any web browser like the Magic: the gathering stuff.