During Covid, a few of my friends and I, being the TCG (Trading Card Game) lovers that we are, decided to band together on discord to create our very own game. This allowed us to stay social while practicing social distancing. Being fully in charge of the design process, I spearheaded this project toward completion. Countless hours of discussion and theory crafting resulted in Weapon Masters.
This is a card game that lets the player fully customize their experience based on the weapons they chose to purchase in the weapon shop and the unique skills they would acquire slaying monsters on the monster track. Each weapon class possesses a different strategy while slaying 10 monsters wins you the game, a player can try the bold route of slaying only 5 Apex monsters to win instead. The core strategy of this game lies in how well you allocate your resources while fighting monsters and other players at the same time to impede their progress.
We leveraged a 3rd party tabletop simulator called Steam where I uploaded the entire game’s assets; rulebook, turn guide, cards, playmats, dice, counters, etc. Through Steam, we were able to interact online and play each iteration of the game; improving it every step of the way. It was an extremely rewarding and exciting process where we all got to utilize our knowledge of card games, strategies, mechanics, and board games alike. Displayed below are some assets and in-game screenshots taken from Steam as we tested the gameplay and experience.
