Design Blog 55: Game Dev Focus – Support

Dec 28, 2018

Hi everyone, when I first started writing these blog posts I wanted to break up all the moodily-staring-into-the-distance-wondering ‘yes, but what is game design?’ posts with a variety of other topics which may be of interest. One of those was to look at...

Design Blog 54: New graphics – menus and battlefields

Dec 21, 2018

In this final post about all the upgrades we’ve been making to Combat Cards (here are parts one and two) I wanted to look at an area we all take for granted when playing – the game’s menu screens.   Important I think it’s fair to admit that a look at a...

Design Blog 53: The new visual effects

Dec 14, 2018

Following last week’s post on our new music and sounds, let’s take a look at the new visual effects (VFX) we’re implementing, and why they’re important.   Effects For our purposes, VFX covers anything which happens ‘on top of the game’ to show you something...

Design Blog 52: New music and sounds

Dec 7, 2018

As I’ve mentioned recently, we’re swapping out the game’s initial sounds and music for much more polished versions. So the topic of what the game should sound like is something the team’s been discussing a lot recently. It’s easy to say ‘obviously the game must have...

Design Blog 51: A day working on Combat Cards

Nov 30, 2018

I thought it might be interesting to share what a typical day is like for me at our studio. Obviously this is just one example, and one of the great things about working as a games designer is that every day brings something new and interesting, but it’ll provide a...

Design Blog 50: Why we delayed the game

Nov 23, 2018

If you’re reading this then presumably you already know that we’ve delayed the worldwide launch of Combat Cards from November until early 2019. Naturally, that’s not ideal for players who’ve been waiting patiently, so I wanted to use this post to explain the reasons...