Custom Card happenings

It's the end of the year. Time to hand out Christmas presents?

Just a quick notice for those who are interested what will be happening over the next few months for the custom cards on gEngine:

November: Double Jeopardy gets added to gEngine for playtesting.

This is the last chance for people to comment on the Double Jeopardy cards on the Custom Card forums. Please take the time to see where you can improve on the cards there, including the grammar. All help will be appreciated. It's up to you to shape some of the most powerful cards ever.

December: Project Second Chance Base sets gets added to be immediately custom legal.

I think I'll just go ahead with the cards already listed and based on the list of cards that people have posted. I'm going to do away with the voting. The cards will be immediately custom legal when added, but I have no idea if anyone will be playing with them.

January: Twilight War moves off playtesting and becomes custom legal.

This gives us 2 more months to playtest the cards. After January though, the'll be custom legal online on gEngine. There'll be launch events for these cards and stuff between January and May which is the official date that they'll be off playtesting offline. Anyone with strong opinions on any of the cards from the set better get ready their last chance to voice out their objections on the Custom Card forums.

February onwards: Exodus Flight gets added to gEngine for playtesting.

Nine regions are alreadya available for comments on the Custom Card forums. The remaining 4 will be added in December (Paradwyn and Underneath) and January (Weave and Universal). Post your comments in the respective threads on the Custom Card forums. Things are still fluid at this point. Designers are reminded to respond to the comments for their regions as well (yes, that includes you Doug).

March: Cure for All Seasons gets added to gEngine for playtesting

Cure for All Seasons is the custom promo set to go along with Exodus Flight. It's only a 4 card set and will feature 1 Naroom magi. Dartax and I will be working on the cards over the next few months. Oh and a preview?

May onwards: Ancient of Days starts getting designed.

The images are slowly getting added, the designers are being co-opted to make sure they get what they want. Design will officially start after May, but it may start earlier for some regions. Ancient of Days is a 100 card set with the same breakdown as Twilight War. The set will (and supposedly) focus on early Moonlands, particularly Agram, Une and Rayje. There will be two other sets associated with AoD. Ancient Enemy, 50 cards, details of which are still sketchy at this point so I won't say anything until things are more firm and Guardians Promo custom set, which will probably feature all 12 guardians. The latter will not be based on the playtest cards for the guardians.

Future Plans

The 2nd custom expansion based on the Insiider RP material will be next - the current title for the expansion is titled Fallen Hour. There'll be machine cards in this expansion, but it'll also include leftover cards from the development of Exodus Flight. The set will be the same in terms of numbers as Exodus Flight: 12 cards for each region and 6 from Universal. There'll probably only be one magi for Fallen Hour, but the spell count will be upped to two and there'll be 9 relics/creatures.

The promo set that goes along with Fallen Hour hasn't yet been determined yet... obviously I've got to source the artwork and stuff which will probably determine the set after that. This will be done closer to the time of the development of Fallen Hour.

The final custom set that we will be doing is probably High Noon, which as the name suggests involves mainly shootouts and reacts. Burn spells will predominate with Cald and Nar taking to the fore for this expansion. It is uncertain if this set will be a full 100 card set, or just a promo set of less than 50 cards. The thing that limits this set will be the amount of art I would be able to source for this. We are talking about 2009 here though... and the game might be fully dead by then so who knows what will happen?

Art Request

Since I'm on the topic of art requests, anyone who wants to submit art for the custom cards is more than welcome to do so. Thanks goes to SuperRyoga, Essense, Whyrl and Dartax's sister who has been providing a large number of good stuff so far. I'm still currently collecting images for AoD/AE and need to colour the guardians. Anyone willing to offer any help in either of these is more than welcome.