r/cardgamedesign

Estos son unos cuantos diseños de los mineros de sal del mundo de Shards of Noria, un proyecto de animación en el que trabaje hace un tiempo, todo esto lo trabaje en el programa de dibujo digital Procreate, muy buen programa 100% recomendado 👌
En caso de que le interese a quien vea esta publicación, estoy disponible para comisiones digitales, solo escríbeme y vemos el proyecto y los valores. Saludos 🤘🏼

hola, estas son unas cuantas imagenes del arte conceptual del proyecto de animacion llamado Shards of Noria, es un mundo arido con poca poblacion donde las construcciones estan colocadas entre los riscos de las montañas y cañones del planeta minero. espero les guste, en caso de que quieran ver mi portafolio tengo mi Artstation: https://vice\_jara\_becerra.artstation.com/ y mi instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elchango\_art?igsh=MTlibHBndmtyejQweg==

Estoy disponible para comisiones en caso de que les interese, puedo adaptarme al estilo requerido. saludos.

Hi, these are some concept art images from the animation project called Shards of Noria. It's an arid world with a sparse population where buildings are nestled among the craggy mountains and canyons of this mining planet. I hope you like them. If you'd like to see my portfolio, you can find me on ArtStation: https://vice\_jara\_becerra.artstation.com/ and on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elchango\_art?igsh=MTlibHBndmtyejQweg==

I'm available for commissions if you're interested. I can adapt to your style. Cheers!

Hola hola, estos son unos cuantos diseños de robots en los que he trabajado en el programa procreate, qué les parecen ?? En caso de que les interese estoy disponible para comisiones digitales y también tradicionales. Saludos

Hey everyone

I’m looking for honest feedback on a browser-playable prototype card game I’ve been developing called Alchemist’s Kit.

It’s a tactical multiplayer-style card game focused around:

• building your own Experiment for points
• sabotaging opponents with Unstable reactions
• defending with Stabilize/Dampen during reaction windows
• managing Element cards + Energy carefully

Current prototype includes:

• browser playable build (no download required)
• AI opponents
• local pass-and-play
• tutorial/onboarding improvements
• active balancing and UI iteration

The game takes about 2–3 minutes to understand, and matches are fairly quick once it clicks.

A recent tester described it as:
“once it clicked I was all in.”

That’s exactly the kind of feedback I’m trying to validate now — whether the core loop is genuinely engaging for players outside my friend group.

What I’m MOST looking for:

• What confused you?
• What felt satisfying?
• Did the game become clearer after a match or two?
• Would you play again?
• Did any mechanics feel frustrating or unnecessary?

Browser build:
https://johnnerzdagreat.itch.io/alchemists-kit

Trailer/gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6QJi9nm408

Thanks a ton to anyone willing to give it a shot 🙏
I’m actively updating the prototype based on feedback.

Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRG1VG39

Been creating the art recently for my own card game I'm working on with friends (pictured). We're almost at the stage of announcing and sharing the actual game so I thought I'd share some lessons I've learned along the way alongside some of the art I've worked on for the game!

1. You are your own worst critic.
We often see the flaws in our own art, while the other two guys in my team as well as our playtesters love the art, I have trouble seeing anything beyond flaws or skill gaps I have. I've found to keep my sanity while making art it's important that if other people like the art, to run with it.

2. Choose your battles when it comes to details.
Lets be real, we often see those super rendered artworks the big games have and go yeah I need to do that. A lot of the effort won't be seen when it's printed on a tiny piece of cardboard. If you're doing the art solo, pick your battles, only heavily render the things you want people to focus on. Not only will it help guide the eye, but it will save you so much time.

3. Time limits are your friend.
Giving yourself a time limit to get a piece done in can really help you cut to the chase. I've found giving myself less time makes me focus on what matters in an artwork which overall has saved me easily weeks of time while making this project. Blocking out a night or two to do a full painting I've found has helped heaps in consistently making progress.

4. References help, don't raw dog your art.
There's no shame in using references, even professionals use them. I've found painting these images has been less stressful and tedious when I've just used references instead of trying to raw dog a material, texture or shape straight from the dome.
Another way I've found references to be handy is myself and my team make on purposely 'bad' looking artworks that are roughly what we're thinking during playtesting. It helps us refine the art ideas alongside the cards so there's less desicions to be made on the final.

5. Keep colours consistent across factions
Limiting your colour palette and re using similar colours for basic cards in a faction not only creates cohesion and identity, it simplifies and speeds up the process by a lot. I've found sticking to set colours for each faction in my game and only breaking the colour rules for special cards has helped reduce deisicion fatigue.

BONUS: Learn about graphic design. Visual Hierachy, Colour Theory and how design is used to communicate things visually. It helps SO much!

Anyway that's some stuff I've learned from working on this project!
If you have any cool tips to help people give them a share!

I'm making a card game called Bananarchy and this is for a card named "Closed" with the idea that the Monkey can't get anymore bananas because the shop is all closed up. Which of A or B do you like better? Also please tell me why so I can understand your reasoning?

If you have any art critiques or changes I welcome those as well as I can ask the artist to make changes if need be.

For reference, if you want you can compare the art style to our current game art here: https://bananarchylaunch.pickupandplaygames.com/

Please note: I am using AI to help translate my thoughts into English.

I’ve been designing a card game for fun. I don’t have any plans to sell it or anything like that, so the card art I’m using is just sourced from Pinterest. My game is heavily inspired by Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel and Duel Masters.

I would love to get your opinions on the card design and icons. I’m looking for feedback from everyone. Thanks in advance!

Questions and Icon Details:

• What do you think of this card design?
• Red Square Icon (with circle inside): This is Mana Burst. It is used as shorthand for "Pay X Mana."
• Blue Square Icon (with circle inside): This is Mana Charge. It is used as shorthand for "Add X Mana."
• Hexagon Icon (with number 1): This represents Once Per Turn.
  • Black: Soft Once Per Turn.
  • Red: Hard Once Per Turn.
• Cost Icon: Exactly as the name implies.

Skill Text Format Example:

[1/Turn Icon] [Activation Condition, e.g., "When Attacking" or "Main Phase Icon"] : [Cost Icon] [Cost Value] [Skill Description]

I don't have a lot of experience with trading card games, but for the past few months i have been working in a very simple and begginer-friendly (i think) TCG, it’s called Inedible Battle and it’s about these muffins, cakes and flans battling each other using a progression system with no card draw (and yes, the cards are muffin-shaped like this). So here is a summary of the game’s current state. I'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions for improvements or ideas for new cards, whether as text descriptions or even drawings.

I will remake and later post card ideas that i like. (i draw the assests for this game in ms paint btw)

Hi guys,
working on my Solo card game, Road of Oppression, which was given a presentation here : https://www.reddit.com/r/BoardgameDesign/comments/1suiqzc/working_on_a_hardcore_solo_game/ . To resume, its a solo game where you lead a legion across half a continent (a row of 10 random event cards) to reach a Sanctuary to save your refugees. It is a hand management (troop cards), with morale, food, Command Point and refugees to manage along the way.

After lot of playtests by myself, and still a lot to do, I started working on the card UI (all images found online, thanks mostly to game-icons.net) and I'm undecided if I should go with column or row for the presentation of the "reward" of Victory, Pyrrhic and Defeat. This version of cards is made on Canva.

So basically :

• The Title at the top
• Type of event, then the "Resolution number"
• The Key Words needed for Resolution
• Then the three columns or rows depending of the Resolution.
• At the back, for now, I'm gonna put an image related to the main type of Event (Army, Leader Army, Climate, Environment, Construction)

So what do you think? What should I improve about the cards? (Image are all subject to change one day)
Any questions about the cards or the game?

The game has been really fun until now, the mechanics are well rounded (can I say that?), and I start to think about trying to find playtester soon, so I want to make the cards more readable and easy going. (v01 was hand writting, v02 and v03 all with Component Studio with no images and all)

Hi!l'm the main artist and creator of my Tcg Mighty Duels and Im going to show you some arts that I've done for some very old cards!Enjoy!

You can find me on Instagram at the same name @mightyduels!

These are some of the card design for a kpop inspired TCG i am working on. Let me know what you think!