Author Topic: Touhou Magic(al) Card Project (YGOPRO)  (Read 5449 times)

Touhou Magic(al) Card Project (YGOPRO)
« on: August 17, 2017, 02:43:00 PM »
Greetings to all; my (user)name is Siskin. This will be my first post ever here at MotK.

1.Intro
Perhaps somewhere or at some point in your childhood you have heard of the name Yu-Gi-Oh. It's a super popular card game created by Kazuki Takahashi, while also being a anime and manga franchise. 2 or more players assemble a Deck of monster, Spell and Trap cards. I have seen people make Touhou yugioh cards on online card makers, but  I hoped for something far more ambitious (being able to enjoy the game with other players/friends online on an automated dueling system.), and I'm sure there are hundreds of Touhou fans out there who also want this to happen.
Several years ago, I have already made plans for this project, but since there wasn't enough time and I (we all at the beginning) suck at lua scripting, so not until late June 2017 did I start the project.

2. About the game

The cards are made by me, by using templates on Adobe Photoshop, while the game is played on YGOPRO, which is a fully automated and free online dueling system made by a man named Percy.
The cards of characters are made purely based on their strength and abilities, while the Spell and Trap Cards are based on those characters' Spell Cards that they use in the games. Currently each character has about 3 to 5 Spell Cards in the project, with the exception of characters from uncompleted archetypes (games). Currently, excluding the PC-98 era games (they will come in the future.), cards have been added up to Mountain of Faith, including some characters from Undefined Fantastic Object and Subterranean Animism.



Some other gameplay footages can be viewed here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mni0d5fvhWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLVMPOzITl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkDJarMrXY

3. Aim
To players that are new to or unfamiliar with the game: The general consensus of the project is to make Yu-Gi-Oh as easy to learn and enjoy as possible by creating short and easy-to-comprehend card effects. This is due to the Yu-Gi-Oh we know nowadays is very different from the same game that we know about 10 years ago, most notably an ultra-high learning curve and an immense amount of rules (rulings). I hope that the effort I put into making the game enjoyable to new players will not be in vain.
To players that are familiar with the game and/or still catching up with the meta of the game till this day: Many of you may find the meta today to be (utterly immense in my opinion) quite imbalanced (A kid had to bring Chain Burn to the World Championship 2017 to slay all the True Dracos.), and the card texts make people feel the tl;dr, but they still have to read in order to learn to use them, or learn how to beat them, which is incredibly demoralizing to some people. I cannot say that my cards are balanced, but they are made so that anyone can understand how to use them. Because of this, the restriction  "only this character can use her own spell cards" is removed to unlock the potential of the cards, unlock multiple synergies between cards (and Touhou characters), hence the creativity.

4. Playing the game
Join us at our YGOPRO's Discord channel for more information: https://discordapp.com/invite/ygopro-percy
The files for this game can be found here:
* Siskins_MotK_debut.zip (33222.89 kB - downloaded 196 times.)
Copy the files into their respective folders. You can change the background of the game in the textures folder, and change the music that plays in-game in the sound folder.
For netplaying, we need a virtual LAN, most commonly Hamachi https://www.vpn.net/ Once you have attached an account to your Hamachi and create a virtual LAN, just tell your friends the name and the password of the network + your virtual IP, then host a game in LAN mode and you're good to go.

This topic will be used for announcing updates and (I'll try to constantly) answer questions about the game. You can even suggest card ideas or request a custom card!
- Join the discussion on reddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/6utbr3/touhou_on_ygopro_percy/
« Last Edit: December 25, 2020, 11:48:29 PM by Tom »