OK, this is the third and final instalment of this series of diaries about our reaction cards. In the first one I talked about our old reaction system and, then, in the second one, Skaff talked about his and Richard’s proposal to create a new system based on automatic responsive play. So I think we’ve […]

In this week’s design diary, Skaff talked about reactive cards and how we revised our system for blocks and armor cards. Here’s the first card preview of a reactive card.

Hi, this is Skaff Elias here. Richard Garfield and I were invited to look at Card Hunter back in January. The paragraphs below are what we wrote upon our first review of the game. 

Card discard is always useful and always annoying. This card is powerful but situational.

I want to start talking about a big part of the game that we haven’t delved into at all yet – defenses and reacting to things your opponent does.