Hello to whoever sees this, I don't really know how Steam announcements work. I figured I should probably give a short update as to what I'm working on.
First, I need to do a lot more explaining about the game. I'm going to make a couple YouTube videos, one that is a general overview of the game and one which is a deeper dive into the card game mechanics. I do have a rough draft of a rulebook that is available in the Discord, but it is very rough and will be changed a lot.
The next goal is being able to play the card game against yourself, so I can start to balance the cards themselves and have other people try the game a little bit. The deck building screen is functional now. You can filter with OR or AND with left and right click, add and remove cards, save and load. This way decks can be built to playtest the game.
I'm currently working on implementing the game and card logic, as well as adding all the already made cards into the game. Once this is finished, I'll make it so you can play against yourself. After I play it a bit myself, I'll open it up to other people to help balance the card game. It will probably be wildly unbalanced from the get go, so everything is open for change, and I left myself plenty of room to still add more cards.
The card editor will not be functional yet at this point, but the cards can still be edited easily but just opening up the JSON files. So anyone who is testing out the game mechanics can just edit whatever they think should be changed and then see how their changes work out.
Getting the actual card game functioning will be my primary focus for the next couple months. Once it's functional, I'll be looking for people who are big card game players to help me playtest and balance the cards in the game.
I'll probably make another update on here next time I hit a major break point, which is testing the card game mechanics. Until then, feel free to reach out, I'm most accessible on Discord and Bluesky (though other social media works too).
Until next time,
Connor