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Fayte":13r8wldi said:
Arcanus... you might have a winner with that one. I like that name.

Arcanus.
Don't call it just "Arcanus" - that's something a 12 year old can think of. Add some flair that helps the marketing. Super Arcanus is better.
 
Also Fayte if I can ever get a license for RPG Maker graphics outside of RPG Maker this is what my TCG would look like.

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It would be a small scale, print-on-demand thing, so perfectly doable. The company I'd go with do randomised booster packs as well as deck boxes.
 

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Xilef":1z3cq2hv said:
Fayte":1z3cq2hv said:
Arcanus... you might have a winner with that one. I like that name.

Arcanus.
Don't call it just "Arcanus" - that's something a 12 year old can think of. Add some flair that helps the marketing. Super Arcanus is better.

Nah dude Arcanus is perfect.

Think about the current tcg’s that are popular. Pokémon (although short for pocket monsters it’s still one word), yugioh, vanguard.. then you have others like force of will and duel masters. But they’re all pretty simple.

Amy that looks cool! It’s got that TCG look for sure. Im still testing to make sure the effects that I’ve made for certain cards aren’t overpowered so I haven’t finalized what they’ll actually look like yet.. but it’ll be something along the lines of this.
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Also, it’s going to have its own app like hearthstone.
 
It's 5 years since the Official Forums opened. In that time they have made 700,000 posts and we have made about I reckon somewhere in the region of 50,000. Reckon they'll overtake us this year. And of course, the vast majority of their posts are game-making related. We dun fucked up.

Prior to that we were making 10 to 20 thousand posts a month.

In our peak, 50 thousand.
 
Garrys Newman seems to know what he's doing when it comes to forums:
https://garry.tv/2018/01/06/forum-history/

They recently upgraded their forums too:
https://garry.tv/2018/01/10/new-forums/
https://forum.facepunch.com/

Complete with the social-sign-in feature that I keep banging on about people needing to use.

I think right now would be a bad time to attempt to change anything with HBGames, it is more likely to fully kill the community than get it back into the swing. We are certainly in the stage where a select few members are using mega threads as some kind of chat room.

I don't think making a PWOYM forum category will work with the current climate. The official forums have profile posts which fills that need quite nicely.
 
Don't pick names that 12 year olds already thought of when they were 11? There's a reason why Arcanus was the most generic name I could think of within the 1 second of thought I had.
 

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lol dude.. the name doesn’t have to be something crazy and intricate. getting bogged down by something so simple iscwhat slows things downI have to come up with something new now so we’ll see what I come up with
 
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I think the name is pretty terrible too. It sounds like a cheap magick knockoff

Also, based on what ive seen, youre card game looks like most other card games. The TCG audience is extremely niche and the market is oversaturated with TCGs as it is. I think the latest one, FF, is only partly successful due to its branding.

TBH making a dog themed card game has been the best suggestion so far

Not trying to be a downer dude, sorry
 
I opted to not say anything negative about people wanting to make TGCs, but I do share bacon's thoughts.

Part of why I think it may be better to actually physically produce the cards is because the digital market is so freaking saturated with the genre. I find another developer making a TGC every week - if you're making a TGC then you're one of those developers on my list.

Poyion and I met a dude a few years ago that was making a cat-themed TGC - no joke.

EDIT: I also think names for any game should be marketable; if it's simple and generic then it's not going to stand out from the crowd. Intricate may be better. I honestly think having "Super" in it is a good idea.

As for dog-themed card games, someone's probably already done a dog meme TGC. Doge, I have no idea what I'm doing, bad pun husky - I can see these being pretty alright actually. Maybe have it be a physical board game involving these cards - although that's another thing everyone and their mother seems to be producing at the moment.
 

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