Runewards - Strategy Card Game Online
Runewards is a online strategy card game that allows players to battle each other on unique board, with three lanes (that we called
Territories) that you can place cards in it based on
Attributes called
Strength,
Agility and
Intelligence.Many of Runewards cards has unique mechanics, abilities and twists that allow you to flip the table on your opponent at any given time.
Lets start with the board itself:
Here you can see a board compose of three lanes (shown as brick-mortar composition). On the right you have Hero Frames which will have unique abilities that can be triggered once in the game. There are several static objects that eventually be visualized with special effects such as the Brazier bursting into flame when its your turn or turning into a different color when someone
Passed. (The game has 3 Rounds and work as Best-of-three matches).
The card frame:
The card frame is compose of several elements.
1. The
Power located on the upper left corner - We disliked the whole attack/defense mechanics we saw in other card games so we adopted a single number focus, allowing us to give stage to the abilities as key decider in the game.
2. The
Attribute is based on
Strength, Agility and Intelligence with each located differently on the gameboard (what we call a battlefield)
3. The icon of the eye in the bottom-center of the card is the rarity of the card. This one isn't new and familiar to many card-game players. The rarity structure is currently based on: Basic, Rare, Unique, Mythical.
Now for the Deck Builder:
The
Deck Builder allows you to pick and choose cards base on
Army you choose to play. Currently there are 3 Armies in the game -
Monsters, Humans, Nature which has their own unique spells and units.
Mercenaries are cards every player can pick and play in their deck.
We plan to allow players to craft and combine different cards to allow players to use existing cards they earn during the game and duplicates more efficiently. We haven't finish the Crafting mechanics/window yet.
Multiplayer window:
The
Multiplayer window allow the player to pick which deck you want to play and what mode you choose (Ranked/Unranked). It also show you how many cards you have in deck - base on existing Units/Spells and the total rough Power estimation from it.
Main Menu:
For the
Main Menu we went for Inn setting. We like the idea of a game being played in the Inn with friends and family. Runewards is at its core a card game so ...lets play it where you play card games! We want each button to be animated (Option, Shop, Deck Builder, Multiplayer, Single Player, etc...etc..) once you hover and click with mouse and zoom in into the appropriate window once you do.
This part is still in early development in Unity but the drawing is nearly complete and we are very happy with the result.
That's it for now. I'll continue to write more updates in here and hopefully get feedback from other developers and people as this progress along.
Finally, this is my favorite part. Unit artwork!
Galrin Ironfist - Mythical Mercenary Dwarf.Rhinomer - The Rhino Warlord.Archmage Leshar - Hero Frame Artwork.Kraken - Unique Nature Unit.