Gary Arant — Ascending the Ranks at Stone Blade: From Intern to COO, Designing Iconic Card Games, and Challenging Assumptions in Game Development (#47)
Think Like A Game Designer
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How to Build a Deck in Ascension
Shards is a deck building game that lets you build your own decks. It started off as a draft mechanic, but it ended up ditching that because whatever is a bunch of extra cards, it was a setup process. And so there's this kind of like long term strategy of if I get mastery and I level up my mastery, I'll gain access to these really big powerful effects. Or maybe I just ignore it and try to win quickly, right?
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