I want to make my own TCG. Will someone with experience help?

Question

I have some good ideas. I have tried a lot of times to make one in the past, and i have never followed through. if someone who has done this before please help me out it would be greatly appriciated!

Answer 1

teh problem with this theary is that a TCG is like a business. if you start, you will have to follow through and like a business it will fale th first couple of times. i dont have alot of experiance making TCGs but i have played all the major TCG and i think all teh ideas have alredy been taken up... in addition there are alredy so many TCG out there and it will be so much harder to make one. in any TCG there are only 2 things that matter adn they are speed adn power. to make a good game you will have to make good common cards and bad rare cards and this will get the players to think more (not saying all the cards have to be this way but certenly ahve some like this) adn of course the useliss cards like in yugioh there are cards like "thousand eyes idel" and it is compleatly useliss except with "creature swap" (make sure that combos are something that are doable adn dose exist in many differet ways). also cards should made to sute the game. for example in Yu Gi Oh, because teh decks are only 40 cards (mostly) and there are no limets on the number of spells that can be played per turn, drawing cards is extreamly good but onl the other hand in pokemon there is and so drawing cards are not as valueable. another thing to consider is the bann list. in all the major games (except for yugioh), the banlist is teh previous set or a couple sets back. for yugioh there are different spisific cards listed. also the you will need advertisement to start with. in MtG, they have a long history so they adver tise for them self adn pokemon has their series of video games. after that you will have to consider the rules of the game. with the same deck of cards you will have to think of multipul ways to play like MtG adn Pokemon. the game that have varieable limets usuaully are the better built and you will have to give much thought on it. sometimes a set limets is not bad. the hardest thing to think about is comming out with a new set. this is because you want people to buy lots of it and yet not have to bann half the cards that are in that series. for all i know the more you have played with TCGs and building business the greater success you will have with this. make sure it is not based off a tv show because it will fale greatly if you do.