Design Blog 63: A Tale of 13(ish) Painters

Feb 22, 2019

The Combat Cards team has been working on the game for a while now, and plans to expand and improve it for years to come. To avoid the problem of people becoming ‘burned out’ from working on a single game for so long we look for interesting challenges and activities...

Design Blog 62: Game Dev Focus – Art

Feb 15, 2019

Hi everyone, continuing our occasional series on game development roles (see coding here, and studio support here), this time we have a guest post from one of our artists. Thanks, Stu.   Artists Who are you then? Hello! I’m Claire and I’m a Lead...

Design Blog 61: How we design new features

Feb 8, 2019

Stu – This week’s blog is a guest post from another member of the Combat Cards’ team. Rather than write a long intro, I’m going to hand you straight over to Thanos:   Clans Hello, my name is Thanos and I have been working as a designer on...

Design Blog 60: Quality versus size

Feb 1, 2019

How much space a game takes up on their device probably isn’t something most players think about, until they run out. At that point players go into the system settings and enact… The Cull (it helps if you imagine a high pitched horror scream about now). Before...

Design Blog 59: Card deployment v2

Jan 25, 2019

When we swapped Combat Card’s engine a few weeks ago, the behaviour of quite a few game systems changed with it. Some of these changes are legitimate bugs, but others are just due to the way the two engines handle things differently. Either way, we’re working to get...

Design Blog 58: What to call clans?

Jan 18, 2019

Today’s blog topic might be considered a little niche, but it’s something that comes up when working on a game like Combat Cards, so I thought it might be interesting.   Bands As mentioned in a few posts now, work is underway to add clans to the game, allowing...