Dragon Tournament Fighter : A Simple Customisable Card Game

This is my first instructable!
The initial makings of this game were in 2003 - I since don't have any pictures of the development of this instructable and so I will be using representative graphics.

Please find a parallel game http://www.instructables.com/id/MuzzleFlash-An-expandable-customisable-card-game that was developed around the same time.

A while ago, I used to create custom card games.

Here is the process I used to create the game "Dragon Tournament Fighter", a customisable combat card game with some light comedy elements.

You will also find a complete download of all the cards for this game here too.

Step 1 The Theme

First and foremost, work out the theme that you want to create. This will set the tone of the whole game and help guide you as you progress.

For "Dragon Tournament Fighter" (DTF) I wanted a martial arts style game.

I made a list of features that I wanted:

Quick to play
Easy to learn
Simple game mechanics
Game rules on card
Funny
Turn based
Customisable
Special Moves
Multiple Attacks
"Energy Storage" for attacks or defence


With this list as a guide, I started thinking about how the game would work

Comments

[bounty1012]

Cool, I always wanted to try to find a way to make the Desert Storm collecting cards into a game.

[undescriptive]

I never saw those, but I suppose it's fairly easy! Robust and easy to follow rules are the foundations of a good game :)