HTML Completed TF Card Battle [v1.24] [Apollo Seven]

[sx421]

I'm seriously considering doing some new work on TF Card Battle. I've got a couple options and I'd like to know what people would be interested in.
A: Just more content added to the HTML version. The easiest thing but the least interesting to me personally.
B: Porting the game over to the The Monster Within engine. Wouldn't be that much work, although has issues with art. I don't know if people really want that over just playing the HTML version though.
C: Make a full-fledged TF Card Battle 2. This would be very far off, I'm talking years from even starting production. But I could start exploring design space and such if people like the idea.

Option 2/B could attract a much wider audience to the game and could lay a foundation for your sequel game in the future. In the process of moving to the new engine, you could add a few token updates - new modifiers, new card set, doesn't necessarily need to be full transformation/class - a few updates would bring people back and make previous players engaged again (assuming they beat the game or saw most of the content in the past). Concerning art, what about a batch workflow to crop all the images and process them through img2img on very low settings? The img2img step to add some faux detail if the problem is a question of resolution on some existing images... much more involved if the source files for the (PS or INDD?) templates no longer exist though.

 

[Ferghus]

I'm just going to report that dude as a troll.

 

[Essta]

Definitely B into C eventually(tm)

 

[Walland]

I’d strongly support whichever option moved closer to making it fully compatible with community-made mods. There’s a lot of love for this game but because of the quirks of its legacy code it’s hard to build on it. If a new or ported version allowed users to import their own images/videos and even implement their own ideas for cards and mechanics, that would be the dream. Afaik despite the popularity of deckbuilding games right now, no-one’s done (or even attempted?) this.

 

[Apollo Seven]

I’d strongly support whichever option moved closer to making it fully compatible with community-made mods. There’s a lot of love for this game but because of the quirks of its legacy code it’s hard to build on it. If a new or ported version allowed users to import their own images/videos and even implement their own ideas for cards and mechanics, that would be the dream. Afaik despite the popularity of deckbuilding games right now, no-one’s done (or even attempted?) this.

That would be b/c. For B custom images would be pretty easy to implement, but not custom cards. The way the The Monster Within codebase is set up reading card data off a json or something wouldn't be hard, but it would be pretty confusing for the person modding since I made it with the idea that only I would ever touch the code and make cards.

 

[meleaguance]

If it were more easily moddable, I'd make a gay deck and reverse the transformation so you start off girls and try to transform each other into alpha guys.

 

[randomgamer986]

If it were more easily moddable, I'd make a gay deck and reverse the transformation so you start off girls and try to transform each other into alpha guys.

bro really said: "this game is not gay enough ..."

 

[ninjahedgehog]

That would be b/c. For B custom images would be pretty easy to implement, but not custom cards. The way the The Monster Within codebase is set up reading card data off a json or something wouldn't be hard, but it would be pretty confusing for the person modding since I made it with the idea that only I would ever touch the code and make cards.

You know ppl would love to try it anyway lol. Don't understimate ppl's ability to make it make sense

 

[Thronico]

That would be b/c. For B custom images would be pretty easy to implement, but not custom cards. The way the The Monster Within codebase is set up reading card data off a json or something wouldn't be hard, but it would be pretty confusing for the person modding since I made it with the idea that only I would ever touch the code and make cards.

Increasing the moddability of this game would likely send it into one hell of a resurgence in popularity. I always come back to this game every now and again, but the lack of modding potential remains to be a massive disappointment for me.

Just look at the insane amount of HTML porn gif games on this site. Streamlining the ability for anyone with the know-how to create new content (decks, interactions, animations, gifs, etc...) should be a no-brainer if you're looking to make ANY improvements to this almost-masterpiece, imo.