What if I made it so in my game you could print out your deck to play with it in paper? Or at least outputting a printable file. That feels like a sweet 90s vibe to me.
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will it need special proprietary paper like Barbie Fashion Designer?
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe you need to go a store and print at a kiosk like pokemon snap
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 am • 0 0 • view
Ooh, how about special memory cards you can download your deck to, like the old SNK machines? Visit the kiosk to print your deck, or get special cards when an expansion drops. And then a separate battle table kiosk for in-person duels.
aug 31, 2025, 10:51 am • 1 0 • view
Ah, the awesome things we could've done if we were billionaires a couple decades ago. Fortune is truly wasted on the rich.
aug 31, 2025, 10:51 am • 1 0 • view
To be fair we could still do it if we were rich now. It is astounding though how rich people have absolutely zero creativity whatsoever. Spending lifetimes of money on like, the most boring mansion.
aug 31, 2025, 10:52 am • 1 0 • view
This is one of the features I loved in Shenzen I/O. Always find it extra dope when the game makes the real world diegetic.
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 am • 1 0 • view
And also not particularly difficult to implement probably
aug 31, 2025, 10:21 am • 1 0 • view
Ideally, you'd export as a bunch of PNGs or whatever, so that people can either print them or import them into a virtual tabletop
aug 31, 2025, 9:55 am • 1 0 • view
I feel like you would want it as a sheet and not like, individual pngs, no?
aug 31, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
Well I guess it wouldn't be too hard to do both
aug 31, 2025, 10:22 am • 1 0 • view
If you have an option for individual PNGs, you can then import them into the VTT using whatever method that VTT prefers. So yea, good option.
aug 31, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 0 • view
TCG on the side. I did that with my game as well but it didn't make it past the next build xD. It could definitely work though
aug 31, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Well the whole game is a TCG. And designed to be playable in paper. So it can't be that hard to output some images
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Not at all. Adjust the ruleset a bit (unless you don't have to) for irl play and it's good to go. We could always use more card games lol
aug 31, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Doesn't need adjusted, it was designed for paper
aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
That sounds like a cool entertaining gimmic? OH! What if you add a downloadable art-book DLC type thing, a PDF or something, but instead of art it is all cards pictures for each page, and a few pages instructions on how to make and manage your deck so the person can play IRL?
aug 31, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I know one Game that is a visual novel game based on RPGs added a DLC that was al downloadable maps and NPC pages and player character sheets on a PDF so people can play a Pathfinder style campaigns of their visual novel game. It was such an awesome idea. Tavern Talk did that.
aug 31, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Well this would just be like making proxies. Which I would encourage people to do anyway.
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Well that just sounds like the instruction manual that will exist probably
aug 31, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
This is the kind of feature I would go “d’awww, that’s so cute!!!” And personally probably never use But I know others who would use it!
aug 31, 2025, 10:26 am • 2 0 • view
That's what I'm assuming most people would do. But it would fit the over all *vibe*
aug 31, 2025, 10:30 am • 1 0 • view
And it wouldn't be like, that hard to just export some images
aug 31, 2025, 10:31 am • 1 0 • view