X2: Card Game

Miklatov · Post by **Miklatov** » Fri, 15. Oct 04, 16:13

Greets all.

Sorry if this has been brought up already. Ignore if it has

A couple of months ago, someone brought up the idea of making an X2 card game. Not like the top trump style one in the Argonopedia. More in the style of Magic the Gathering etc.

I'm seriously thinking about going ahead and making something along these lines. I have had some ideas for rules etc but they are by no means fleshed out, and wondered if anyone would be interested in contributing at all.

Obviously the first thing is to establish a solid rules system and once this is done, everything else should fall into place nicely.

Also, further down the line, anyone who can draw on photoshop etc and people who can write flavour text would be appreciated.

So if anyone is interested, just let me know here or email me.

Cheers

n0tsane · Post by **n0tsane** » Mon, 18. Oct 04, 22:26

so... an X2 card game like MTG.... sounds interesting at least.

instead of using just colors like MTG does it would have to use the races and maybe a color to go with the race to make things easy.

Argon - White
Boron - Blue
Paranid - Red
Split - Green
Teladi - Yellow
Pirate - Grey
Xenon - Black
Khaak - Pink

ok, this is where you either stick with what has made MTG so successful or do your own thing with it, and that is do you make the cards for the different races built around one theme like say for instance Argon are protectors so cards for them will be themed around protection, and Split are war like so cards for them are built around them having strong attacking and weak defense. or you could just make whatever sounds good for the races.

ok, so how do you build up the mana, or energy or what have you to bring out your cards? should the word be Energy or Resources? i guess that can be worked on later.

now naming the different kinds of cards. MTG gives a different name to each card, but they also have a subtype like Creature for a creature or Artifact for an artifact. We could have Ship, Station, or Equipment... something like that.

here is an example of what the text on the card could look like:

Name: Argon Nova
Race type: Argon
Sub type: Ship - M3
Resources cost: 4
Attack/Defense: 3/3
Card text: When Argon Nova comes into play, all Ships you control get +1 to Defense until end of turn.

well this is just my idea. pick through it. rip it apart. i don’t care. i will say this though, if you get this off the ground as far as working out the rules and what not, you could use MTGPlay source code http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtgplay/ to make it a computer only game.

X-Periment · Post by **X-Periment** » Sat, 28. May 05, 11:57

n0tsane wrote:so... an X2 card game like MTG.... sounds interesting at least.

instead of using just colors like MTG does it would have to use the races and maybe a color to go with the race to make things easy.

Argon - White
Boron - Blue
Paranid - Red
Split - Green
Teladi - Yellow
Pirate - Grey
Xenon - Black
Khaak - Pink

ok, this is where you either stick with what has made MTG so successful or do your own thing with it, and that is do you make the cards for the different races built around one theme like say for instance Argon are protectors so cards for them will be themed around protection, and Split are war like so cards for them are built around them having strong attacking and weak defense. or you could just make whatever sounds good for the races.

ok, so how do you build up the mana, or energy or what have you to bring out your cards? should the word be Energy or Resources? i guess that can be worked on later.

now naming the different kinds of cards. MTG gives a different name to each card, but they also have a subtype like Creature for a creature or Artifact for an artifact. We could have Ship, Station, or Equipment... something like that.

here is an example of what the text on the card could look like:

Name: Argon Nova
Race type: Argon
Sub type: Ship - M3
Resources cost: 4
Attack/Defense: 3/3
Card text: When Argon Nova comes into play, all Ships you control get +1 to Defense until end of turn.

well this is just my idea. pick through it. rip it apart. i don’t care. i will say this though, if you get this off the ground as far as working out the rules and what not, you could use MTGPlay source code http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtgplay/ to make it a computer only game.

What about the Terran ships?

Merroc · Post by **Merroc** » Sat, 28. May 05, 12:29

Miklatov wrote:Also, further down the line, anyone who can draw on photoshop etc

Im learning it... (still at the basics)

Anyway, good idea. I liked MTG pretty much back in the old days (1990ies), but cos only my brother played it too (and i always lost) and no shop in our neighbourhood sold it good enough i gave up on it... (still have loooots of cards though)

ExE22 · Post by **ExE22** » Sat, 28. May 05, 13:23

Perhaps you could add solar power plants, Sillicon mines, Nvidium mines and ore mines that had to be tapped (like tapping a land in MTG) in order to throw a card into play.

Medic279 · Post by **Medic279** » Sat, 28. May 05, 14:08

Re: rules and ideas

Check out the B5 card game - had some nice ideas in it which could spark something for the X series game.

Matt

Shavik · Post by **Shavik** » Thu, 30. Jun 05, 16:13

I would say I am a somewhat medium-advanced Photoshop user so just PM me if you need me to TRY anything.. I can not promise anything but I will give it a go.. Ex. just draw something in paint and give me a layout you want and I can do all kinds of fonts and effects on text.. Pics.. you name it I can put it together..

I am not at my home computer atm but when I get home I will give it a go if you would like. Just send me a PM man.

K!D286 · Post by **K!D286** » Wed, 6. Jul 05, 17:21

yes, im also experienced in photoshop, a few years now. if you like you can send me pm. have fonts and effects and so on. but i dont know anything about x2, so pics of ships you have to give me... see ya

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Wed, 6. Jul 05, 20:32

but i dont know anything about x2,

Sooooooooo, why are you here?

K!D286 · Post by **K!D286** » Wed, 6. Jul 05, 21:03

X3: Reunion ^.^ And in this thread... i was bored ^^ just read a bit everywhere and now i landed here

Antilogic · Post by **Antilogic** » Wed, 6. Jul 05, 21:39

Ahhhhhhhh, i see.

Winter Dragon · Post by **Winter Dragon** » Tue, 2. Aug 05, 03:15

If there's any miniature models involved I'd be interested.

kethalpak · Post by **kethalpak** » Sat, 13. Aug 05, 10:36

Sounds interesting, i'll give the flavourful text a go. I hope this gets off the ground.

Flavourful Text:
Nividium
The beautiful silvery surface of this mineral and the fact that is lightweight and nearly indestructable makes it sought after by all races, includidng pirates.

*******
Not the best. but i could do better but i am in a hurry right now.

silentWitness · Post by **silentWitness** » Sat, 13. Aug 05, 10:51

You mean like this???

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Electric_Kola · Post by **Electric_Kola** » Fri, 19. Aug 05, 03:09

erm isnt that more like top trumps than MTG?

silentWitness · Post by **silentWitness** » Fri, 19. Aug 05, 13:49

If its a card game then you must be able to use the existing cards!

Arwan · Post by **Arwan** » Sun, 16. Oct 05, 09:48

silentWitness wrote:You mean like this???

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RMK wrote: erm isnt that more like top trumps than MTG?

i think he was refering to flavor text

by the way from what i can make out of flavor text it says

"the argon mamoth is a ferry transporter class ship which can be found in argon federation territory. it is so large that it can not dock at normal stations and needs smaller freighters for trading"

rather impressive considering how small and fuzzy the text is. i impress myself sometimes

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