I'm thinking of a Tapas card game

[liamhernandezlucas]

One of the bigger challenges in designing the gameplay would probably be the genre mixing. Do the characters fight? Do they date? Do they bake goods? Or is it something more abstract?

If they fight for instance, you can try and use powerlevels or attack points to designate values to the characters and work from there.

If you're meant to have them do something less straightforward, like dating or baking, you'll need some values geared towards that.

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[liamhernandezlucas]

There's also a significant number of aromantic and/or ace authors and characters, I believe, so those would prove a bit more difficult to adapt if the theme is dating, but not impossible to work with

[jensrichard77]

Take whatever you like from Blue Life and use it however you like

[redfrombluelife]

Take whatever you like from Blue Life and use it however you like

NO NOT ME

But if this is a fighting game then I will be OP joker and unbeatable.

Hahahahaaha

And I do not date guys. The Boy Love thing is for Blue

Hahahhaha

[liamhernandezlucas]

Oh, an alternate idea that might prove a lot more versatile would be using story events.
You get character cards and story cards.
Characters have traits and story cards have events that require certain traits for certain outcomes.
If you have the right characters, you can use those to 'win'the event and get a reward (let's go with 'story points'for now)
The players need to make sure they have the correct resources or amount of story points by the end event of the game to win.

It can use a lot of tinkering, but a general concept like that could work using a variety of genres, and could be fun when trying to use characters with the correct trait in story events from another genre.

[DualDragons]

Sounds interesting!
But I have to agree with @liamhernandezlucas, the genres are the largest obstacle here. Some people might be into romance while others aren't. And then there are people like me who totally love fighting but other people aren't really in that kind of thing or their oc's aren't fighting material.

You could always do a race kind of theme. Where the characters have a vehicle/bicycle or stuff like that. That way you aren't necessarily bound to a genre or character limitations.

[jensrichard77]

You could always do a race kind of theme.

Like this one??
https://m.tapas.io/series/Blue-Kart-Inksgiving-2019-GRAND/info

[DualDragons]

Yeah, basically something like that

[liamhernandezlucas]

I think what might keep most authors from jumping on an idea like this is apprehension about two things:
Profit and copyrights.

Using the Tapas title is probably a nono, so you need another name I think.

If the card game is actually sold for money, people who provided their characters might want to know how you intend to use or disperse that profit.

People might also be worried how you use their characters and what it means for their rights, so there needs to be some clarity there.

So unless you only work with authors who don't want a slice of the pie and who don't mind risking their characters being reappropriated, you'll need to lay out the terms and have some sort of contract.

[Zaboem]

Winning conditions don't necessarily need to be genre-derived. Here's an example off the top of my head. The winner is the player who builds from ace to king to subquental order. Like in Solitaire, cards may be stacked in order beginning with the ace, then the 2, then the 3. For a fighting series, that growth could be a single character powering up. For a romance series, the cards could represent the stages if a relationship. In a mystery or horror, it could tell the series of sequence of events in a story.

The above, by the way, us NOT a GOOD mechanic. It's pretty bad. I'm just throwing it out as an example.

And yes, I do have the rough draft rules of a card game I created for Alien Fiction. Mine is not well suited for any other series, and I'm not happy wuth it myself, but that's a topic for another time.

[sushy00]

A Tapas card game sounds like a fun idea

[DukeOfOool]

Cool idea, maybe a game where you try to get a certain amout of a card typus, containing the different genres and a secundary type for character traits:
e.g. [Action][Nerd] or [Sci-fi][Prince]
This would allow creators from all corners to join in.

I also just started a small project after I've seen Josh Wright do cards for his character.
His awesomeness:

Slack Wyrm | Tapas

and mine:

[ToTC] Tales of The City | Tapas

Good luck and lots of inspiration

[IndigoShirtProd]

There's actually a group of creators out there in the board game convention scene doing something very similar! I think the main creator made thread on here a few months ago, let me find it and the link to their website. The whole premise is to take different webcomic characters from many creator for a battle style card game.

I am making a card game about indie comics called scattered nexus. I love a lot of the comics on tapastic but there are some that are exclusive to tapas. Would it make sense to feature comics from tapas or would it just make sense to just feature comics from a bunch of different webcomic sites and include tapas nonexclusive titles? Are web comics fans down with all comic sites or is there a type of brand lotalty?

Scattered Nexus

[NickRowler]

If you want a fairly simple set up for a card game, I would recommend doing something similar to Neopet's Dueling Deck game

Each character has multiple stats and a number assigned to it. On a player's turn, they pick a stat that they think can defeat the other player. Every time you win, you take your opponents card until one player has all the cards.

I think it would be interesting to tweak the concept of cards games so that it's not just two characters battling. Having something different like a dating game or a game about competing students (have school stats). You could even have a second set of "boost" cards. They could add or subtract stats so that you can't just count cards. Maybe players keep boost cards or the boost cards are a shared deck and it gets reshuffled when they are used up.

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[nathanKmcwilliams]

I would totally be down to have a couple of my characters participate as cards in the game. I like community ideas like this.

[elibeaird1]

thanks for remembering me. yes we are still in development, testing and advertising. that being said i love the idea of a simpler game based on comics. i realize that my game will be limited to 50 comics (unless it takes off). maybe there could be a design where creators can make their own cards from their comic. although i think balancing such a game would be a nightmare.

[elibeaird1]

your idea sounds very interesting, if you want any help let me know. I have collected a few resources for game design over the years I have been working on mine.

[elibeaird1]

I'm so glad this still exists. I'll be back next week with some fun news.