Custom F.E.A.R Lorcona Cards

A few custom cards I made in 2024 based on the game F.E.A.R for Lorcona. I remember them being fun but a bit over-costed maybe.

TCG Design Tips

If you're designing a TCG there are a few things that I personally think you should try and avoid having in your game. These are things that I've learned from making a few games and playing random startups.

1. Boards

I really recommend that you don't design around having a board component to your game. From experience it's a bit of a crutch, it limits the space you have to design in and if you balance around the board your stuck with it forever. Also, if you plan to try and market your game having a board sends mixed singles. Is it a board game is it a card game? It's targeting two audiences that don't really mix too well. Design your game to be played with the cards ONLY.

2. Complex Math

Now, requiring players do math in your game is fine and having players do complex math is fine. The issue is in having players do complex math for the majority of the game. I created a TCG that mechanically played like Super Auto Pets. The mechanics of this work for an automated game, but once you have players sitting down and doing the math as the turn goes it becomes super tedious and boring.

3. Complex Resource System

This extends from the complex math reasoning from before but if your game uses some kind of resource to play cards the simpler that system works the better. In a game I was working on I had a system where players use gold to play cards from their hand, they then could later refund the cards they played for their gold value. Gold would persist though turns and at each upkeep phase players would receive a small amount. 

What I learned from this system is that with so much going on between spending, refunding, and receiving gold at the start of their turns, players would lose track of how much gold they had and too much time was spent managing their gold.

4. Complex Interactions

This also extends from the points above but make your game human playable. What I mean by this is make sure that the number of things that players have to track on their turns doesn't become overwhelming. When they do peoples turns can become too complicated and long and it makes the pacing of your game slow down to a drag.

5. Make your game Breakable

I unironically think allowing players to find interesting combos/mechanics that can create broken situations is overall more fun for players to do. Having your game being a little broken, as long as it's not overbearing, is fun.

To sum everything up, make your game as simple as possible for players to pick up and play. I think simplicity in design, across all mediums, usually works the best.

Free 3D Steak Model

Low poly meat model I made in Blender. Dowload below, includes an obj, texture, and, .blend file. I was going to upload it to Turbosquid too but it requires I take like 20 screenshots and I didn't feel like doing it so it's just here.

Download

GREAT Breakfast Sandwich Recipe

 I've been making a variant of this recipe for breakfast for the last few days and it's really good, easy to make too. The only difference is the teriyaki sauce I'm using isn't a glaze. Really solid sandwich.

Instakill Arena Screens

 There are just some screenshots I'm uploading here for my portfolio page.

Unreal Engine Logos

I couldn't find any good transparent Unreal Engine logos online when I was doing some updating on my portfolio, so I cleaned up a non-transparent version of it. Here is the one I cleaned up, feel free to use them.

Railway Ported

 Finished porting Railway to Trouble in Terrorist Town on Gmod. Check it out here if you'd like and please give it an upvote.

Here are a few screenshots from it.

Banquet Sweet and Sour Chicken

 

I was at the store today shopping around for some little snacks to have in the AM. When this curious little box caught my eye. I've never seen this Banquet meal before so I HAD to try it. It was pretty cheap, costing a little over a dollar.

Anyway, I just had it, and it was okay. The chicken in it taste pretty alright, however you only get 5 pieces. Not a while lot. The rice in is pretty weird, the sauce doesn't taste good enough to really justify eating the rice after the chicken, it's a very weird flavor. 

I wouldn't recommend this unless you got like two of them and ate them at the same time. There's just not enough food in it. 

The BEST TV Dinner

Banquet has the reputation of being one of the cheaper and lower quality brands of TV dinners. This reputation is earned, majority of the Banquet meals I've had were all low quality trash, nearly inedible. They're alright if you want a quick meal for a couple of dollars but even then there are WAY better alternatives.

To my surprise though I think I've discovered not only one of the best Banquet meals, but maybe one of the best TV Dinner meals of the entire genre. Let me introduce to you the Banquet Mega Meals Boneless Fired Chicken.

The package is pretty unassuming, but this is simply one of the beat frozen food products you can buy. The chicken in it is actually good, like it taste good and the texture isn't gross, it's really weird. It's also under two dollars cost wise.

If you're planning on buying some Tyson chicken to cook skip it and grab a few of these instead. IT'S GOOD. 

Also the Mac & Cheese in it is just okay.

Some Cool Music

This whole channel has a bunch of VERY cool mid 90s to mid 2000s dnb edm on it. Link to channel here.

Me Killing Cows Outside of Lumbridge

*thwack*

Uplink's OST

Quick post, I just wanted to share an incredibly great soundtrack from the game Uplink. I regularly listen too it while working on maps or while writing, I'ts pretty decent work music.

(Also check out Uplink, it's a great game.)

Classic WoW Day One Screenshots

A few random screenshots I took from World Of Warcraft Classic's launch.

With the amount of people some quests where you have to kill a specific mob were almost impossible, so I just skipped them and grinded mobs. I managed to reach level 9 after like 5 hours and then the game disconnected me for some reason.

It's been fun so far.

Classic WoW

Bought a sub in preparation of WoW Classic. Let me introduce you to my undead priest, Bokomoso.

I've never really played a priest before, looking forward to trying it out as my main.