Recent Posts by darkrune

Topic: Ideas / incoming wall of text

Actually it is not that difficult to implement. I also really like your cool card ideas above. But, honestly, I have no idea, how to find the time to code this at the moment :(

Topic: Ideas / incoming wall of text

Also is it possible to modify the mass attack to front and the attack to all directions to make an aoe type ability?

What’s an “aoe” type ability?

Topic: Bugs / wild animals not working [fixed]

Just fixed the wild animals level!

I, however, can’t find any problems with deck selection. Can you explain the problem?

Topic: Bugs / spelling error

Thx. I correct it with the next release

Topic: Bugs / wild animals not working [fixed]

uurrks you are right. I will take a look.

Sorry for the late answer – there is much to much going on in my life.

Topic: Guestbook / Compared to other Online TCG

Nice – Thx Pabba, we need more players online! I love to duel real persons.

Topic: Questions & Answers / Game concepts

Sorry for the late answer. I hope this helps.

So that should mean if its spell range 5, that would be 5 boxes(rows) including the row where my hometown/palace is located?

Yes – correct.

Is there a difference between “Long build time” and “Long Construction Time”?

No its the same. Hmm – We should use just one wording. Which one is better?

How do you win the game? – from what I noticed, I kill the population of my enemy and thats it. Not sure if there are other ways like destroying all his buildings, etc.

Yes there is: You can also win by gaining 5 Victory Points.

Victory Point – what is this and how important? (does this let you win as well?)

See above.

Charge 3 (example +1) – This should mean that each time the unit moves 3 blocks(whatever direction) it gains +1 attack? or does the movement needs to be forward alone?

The unit gets the +1 attack for each single movement up to +3

Topic: Guestbook / Compared to other Online TCG

Hi naderson – thx for the praise.

Actually, I’m still very busy with other stuff (family, day job and the like). So development is very slow at the moment :(. But I hope that this will change in the course of the next month. Most current work is on the internals of the game. When this is done, we can spit out more levels and cards.

Topic: Questions & Answers / Game concepts

Sorry there is no definitive readup. The info is a little bit scattered in the forum. But I can provide you some answers here:

• Flying doesnt work like in MTG. It doesnt protect you from ground attacks. It’s just a movement ability that allows you to fly over walls and the like.

• Actually there aren’t any real ranged units yet. But there are some with a similar special ability. E.g. the Elven Sniper – she can target any unit on the board with her ability.

• Spell Range means how far you can cast a spell out of your kingdom. A Spell Range of 7 for example could target everything, a spell range of 3 would be able to target in your first three ranks.

Ask – if you have further questions .. no prop with being lazy :)

Topic: Ideas / Married finger?

Ok, I agree – that it would look more professional. But it would also be less intuitive. Currently new players recognize the hand cards immediately. Any idea, how it can be kept intuitive and look more professional, at the same time?

Topic: News / fantasy_cards on Twitter

Fantasy Cards now have it’s own twitter account @fantasy_cards .

Starting from now, I will separate tweets concerning the game from my private and more development oriented tweets. All game announcements go through @fantasy_cards. If you are interested in news concerning the game you should follow this account. If you are also interested in “behind the scenes” stuff and my private mocking you could consider also following @marcoemrich :)

To make it easy for you, I also added a follow button directly below the new section on the start/home page .

Now let the numbers grow…
Marco

Topic: Bugs / Multi player hand [fixed]

Was a duplicate of “Messed up hands bug”

Topic: Bugs / Messed up hands bug [fixed]

fixed!

Topic: News / New Version: Improved Awards, Better Performance

Hi Everyone,

it has been several month since the last upgrade. Don’t despair! Fantasy Cards is far from being DEAD.

I just released a new version. There are several improvements:

New Award System

I totally revamped the award system. You now get notified in the very moment you get an award – previously it was only after the game.

Several Awards have been dropped and some new added. The best feature is the possibility for story based awards. Let the bear escape in the Level Wild Animals and you will see…

New Level ‘Home at the Castle’

Home at the Castle replaces the old Resource Tutorial. It’s more interesting and better integrated in the tutorial story.

Better Performance

Most changes I did, are not visible from the outside. But I changed quite some code. Did a lot of modernization. And the best thing is: improved performance.

If you have already cached the game client (i.e. it’s your 2nd play), game start is now almost instantaneous.

Bug Fixes

Like always, I squashed some of these nasty creatures. Most importantly, in two player games you start with the correct hand cards.

that’s it for now, have fun,
Marco

Topic: Open Discussion / Dutch Advertising for the game.

Hello Robert,

Can i Advertise in the netherlands, for this game?

Sure, spreading the word always helps!

thanks,
Marco

Topic: News / Multiplayer Challenges! A Xmas present

I’m sure it works. But I have a hard time finding someone who likes to duel too :(. I think the problem is, that most players are already playing vs. the ai most of the time. So they dont see the request.

Topic: Bugs / castle in deck

Actually, it wasn’t meant for putting in your deck, but the collection shows all cards. You can consider this a bug if you want. But it has a low priority.

Topic: Open Discussion / I'm back

Hi Rakas,

really a topic of yours got deleted? This don’t think I did this on purpose – sorry. What was the topic? Perhaps, I can find it in the backups.

Topic: News / Tutorial Campaign is coming

Oh, you’re not supposed to. There are these two options. A peaceful and an aggressive one. It’s your choice!

Topic: Open Discussion / Dark Rune is Dead!

Hey Furon, of course. It would be nice to see you in the chat again. I’ll try to be online more often. It’s just a heavy period for me right now. I’m sure this will change. When my son gets a little older and doesn’t need most of my time, I hopefully also find the time to code again.

Topic: Open Discussion / Dark Rune is Dead!

Hmm, if anyone is interested and have some decent ruby and javascript programming skills, I would love to team up.

Topic: Open Discussion / Dark Rune is Dead!

Hey – I’m still there. I just have a lot to do. Family an job keeps me very busy :(. I’ll try to continue development soon.

Topic: Bugs / Far Right Screen is no more

Hmm – I think I know this bug.What resolution does your screen have?

Topic: Bugs / Messed up hands bug [fixed]

sorry – I didn’t had found the time yet

Topic: News / Tutorial Campaign is coming

Hmm – What about raising the attack value of the wolves from 2 to 3? This would really raise the need for the potions. But would it make the level to hard for beginners?

Topic: News / Tutorial Campaign is coming

I think there should be a need to use the potion. But it may be enough to have just some damage. So you need to use the healing potions to get back to full health. Some damage is enough to see the effect of potions and get familiar with the mechanics – like Humility said. A real need for the potions that would prevent the player from making it through the level would be too hard for a tutorial.

So there is only a problem, if some players doesn’t get damaged at all.

Topic: News / Tutorial Campaign is coming

Great idea.

No I think it is ok like this. However, the health potions are not necessary at this point.

Do you mean, you haven’t been hit at all? Or just that the damage is low enough, that you don’t need them?

Topic: Bugs / Messed up hands bug [fixed]

Upps – thats bad. I will look into it soon.

Topic: Bugs / No cards showing [again]

Thanks for reporting. The server crashed again. This happens once in while. No idea why it did this time. Everytime I think I nailed it, it reappears with a new cause :(. The Good thing is. That all I have to do is to restart the server. But I need to know about the crash in the first place.

Topic: Bugs / not a bug but spelling error [fixed]

corrected! Thanks for pointing out.