Developer Update: Warhammer Combat Cards’ Next Faction

Developer Update: Warhammer Combat Cards’ Next Faction

Apr 1, 2021

Since the launch of Warhammer Combat Cards back in 2019 the game has consisted of eight factions spanning the vast majority of races found in Warhammer 40,000, from the dwindling Aeldari and ravenous Tyranids to the barbaric Orks and superhuman Adeptus Astartes. Well...
Developer Update: Improved AI Deck Building

Developer Update: Improved AI Deck Building

Aug 11, 2020

As a longtime player one thing that always felt like it could have been better was the AI deck composition in campaigns. While the difficulty always felt appropriate the AI’s reliance on using higher cost cards always felt overly unbalanced and more often than not led...
New Trait Incoming: Inspiring Presence

New Trait Incoming: Inspiring Presence

Jul 22, 2020

Hi everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new trait and I’m excited to announce the latest, which will be tied into the new Indomitus release: Inspiring Presence!  So how does it work? First thoughts may be as a direct counter to Fear? Well it’s a bit...
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 38: Luck in Combat Cards

Design Blog 38: Luck in Combat Cards

Sep 7, 2018

Every now and again I like to discuss an area of ‘high level design’ – that is something which I, as a game designer, think is interesting and worth talking about, even if it won’t help you win battles.So this week I thought we’d look at where chance, luck and...