Design Blog 117: Attracting players – UA spotlight

Design Blog 117: Attracting players – UA spotlight

Apr 10, 2020

A few weeks ago we ran a spotlight on how our artists work on the concepts for new traits, so this week we have another spotlight, this time on ‘User Acquisition’. No idea what UA means or why it’s so important to a game like Combat Cards?...
Design Blog 116: Precise wording in traits + special rules

Design Blog 116: Precise wording in traits + special rules

Apr 3, 2020

Contrary to what you’d expect, life as a videogame designer is only 50% casinos, car-chases and throwing henchmen off the Eiffel Tower. The rest of the time is spent discussing incredibly specific details about how pieces of our game should or should not work....
Design Blog 115: Perfect Information in Combat Cards

Design Blog 115: Perfect Information in Combat Cards

Mar 27, 2020

I wrote about randomness in Combat Cards way back in the carefree, could go outside and lick anything we wanted, days of blog post 38. This week I wanted to expand on that by looking at ‘perfect information’, and what that means to videogames. Intimidating A game has...
Design Blog 114: Improving traits – art spotlight

Design Blog 114: Improving traits – art spotlight

Mar 20, 2020

Alongside the new feature work we have underway, our art team is looking at improving the traits used by cards when you deploy them to the battlefield. Rather than me trying to explain what we’re doing here and why, I asked our concept artist, Becky, some questions:...
Design Blog 113: New versus old cards

Design Blog 113: New versus old cards

Mar 13, 2020

Before we get to this week’s topic I wanted to make sure everyone reading these posts understands that this blog never forces the Combat Cards team into commitments. Sounds weird but what I mean is that as the team discusses and agrees on plans I make notes of...
The Well Played Games Warhammer Hobby Blog – March

The Well Played Games Warhammer Hobby Blog – March

Mar 6, 2020

Welcome to the first installment of the Well Played Games Warhammer Hobby Blog! When we’re not busy making Combat Cards many of us enjoy dabbling in various elements of the Warhammer universe, so we figured we’d share what we’ve been up to with you...