In Game Design Deep Dive: Trading and Collectible Card Games, game design analyst Joshua Bycer is back to discuss the deck-building genre, from the original success of Magic: The Gathering to today-s market with online card games like Hearthstone and Gwent. The design and philosophy of deck builders and tabletop games can be and have been applied to many genres.
- Looks at the history of popular tabletop card games and collectible card games
- Discusses how to design and balance your game with low numbers
- Examines the application of card-based design in other genres
Perfect for students and designers to learn about designing deck builders and card-based games.
Joshua Bycer is a game design critic with more than seven years of experience critically analyzing game design and the industry itself. In that time, through Game-Wisdom.com, he has intervi