How to make a card game from concept to completion
What do you enjoy in the card games that you play? What will entice others to play?
For this example, I tried to create a card game that my friends would play. They enjoy relatively simple games, that one can do while talking or conversing. I chose Uno to be the base game, as all agreed that that was their favorite game.
I like the aesthetic of tarot cards, so I also added in their number system (1-10, then page, knight, queen, and king).
I chose a theme, next. I enjoyed the tiktok trend of “vaguely terrifying beasts as pests that just bother you occasionally” as the theme, and boiled down their appearance to “Oblong form in mask”. Simplifying the appearance of the card’s design increases it’s readability...
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