Looking for CCG game engine

Wait a minute, (s)he is talking about a collectible card game right and not some computer game engine?

-Darke

I guess engine could be used to describe a ccg system. Maybe we should stop speculating and let them respond. LOL.

-Darke

I realize this is a tall order, but I figured this would be a good place to start.

Good luck in your search to find a game! I'm not all that familiar with the CCG market, but I'll hazard a guess that it's rather saturated; I suspect a game will have to be singularly spectacular to keep pace with the established games. Hope you can find one!

Your request is certainly one of the first we've had from a publisher seeking designs; could you share with us who you represent?

I'll attempt to ignore the cheekiness of coming into a forum and attempting to dictate protocols to its members, and observe that to the extent that the subject at hand is the principles of game design, we do tolerate discussion of computer-based games; we recently had a discussion about a game called Culdcept, and one of our members runs a company that produces computer-based versions of his board games.

The problem is that the vast majority of computer game folks don't want to talk about game design, they want help with implementation; "what graphics software should I use to make a first person shooter?", e.g. That subject isn't of interest to the vast majority of our members (who are designing board games), and since other groups exist for the discussion of such topics, the interested parties should go there to take up their discussion; it's better for both sides that way. You wouldn't believe how many people come here hoping to talk about computer games, despite the absolutely unambiguous name of the site.

And for whatever it's worth, I've referred to the core mechanics of my games as an "engine" in the past; it's perhaps more common in computer parlance, but I think it can work as a board game/card game word, as well.

Good luck with your project!

-Jeff