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Alternate WoW Style Card Groups
Posted on | January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
After thinking about the five group Magic-style division of cards I proposed yesterday, I didn’t really like them. They were a sensible way to divide the different items, but there was no way I could think of (not even a bad way) to make gameplay out of it. I doodled some more on the train ride home from work and came up with a different way to divide things similar to the World of Warcraft style.
The two overarching categories would be Science and Context. Every card would be in one of these, and then have a subcategory. I’d like to match them up so they’re the same in both Science and Context, like how the character classes are the same across factions in WoW, so you have two ways to include a card in your deck. They don’t match up now but it looks like a promising design so I’ll keep working on it. These are the categories as I have them right now:
- Science (other possible names: Innovation, ?)
- People
- Ideas/concepts
- Experiments
- Discoveries
- Places
- Events
- Context (other possible names: History, Support, ?)
- History
- Legal
- Funding
- Organizations
- Business
- Economy
This seems more sensible than yesterday’s idea so I think I will run with it and see where it goes. It works pretty well with the player roles I sketched out as well, but I’ll save that for tomorrow.
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January 28th, 2009 @ 6:32 am
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