The first round of posts were a breakdown of the nuts and bolts steps toward building the board game. Here I'll pause to allow more time...

Mood, atmosphere and visual clarity can be enhanced by choosing the right lighting. And being a digital game, there's also a need to...

Beyond the game board itself the play space needs some attention. In Tabletop Simulator you're contained to the area within the skybox,...

Some game spaces are fully enclosed within a 3D environment built and themed for the game. But often fully enclosed environments require...

One advantage of a digital board game over a physical one is the ability in Tabletop Simulator to consolidate several objects by...

You can't have cards and combat without the card. Below is a short guide on, not on card design, but how to build your decks so that...

In the previous posts we've sourced and prepped a 3D asset for ingest into Tabletop Simulator and we've modified the texture of the asset...

Following on from the previous post on prepping 3D assets, it's time to play with textures. The files below came with the asset...

If you're following along I'll assume in part it's because you want to know how the development of Cards & Combat can help you with your...

This may not have been covered yet, but, every Game Mode has a Game Master (GM). The role is quite different to a typical Role-Playing...

For this game's development the program we decided upon is Tabletop Simulator, as a digital board game platform it offers a few...

Combat is a centerpiece of the game's 'cards and combat' foundation. As mentioned in an earlier post, Cards & Combat is a casual...

Along with Combat, Cards are the centerpiece of the gameplay. In the case of this game we researched decks from adventure games (eg....

While aiming to keep the gameplay experience light, it felt a little too simple to have every Playable Character be assigned the same...

With a name like 'Cards & Combat' it's pretty clear what you're in for when playing the game. The Card and Combat elements of play are...

The next few posts cover portions of the game concept and how they're intended to play out. First up, let's address a few 'surprise...

It all starts with a 'big idea'. How's this game different? What's the genre?... I'll get to that at the bottom of the post, but to start...

I've always had a drive to make a game, any game - who knows why. Early 2020 corona had kicked in, my 2D Tyranobuilder game turned out to...