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Comment by Y_Y

2 months ago

You may be interested in the excellent rules engine and frontend to MtG. All FOSS and with real cards and art. I can't imagine the "official" games ever being as good.

https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge

this is significant news for me. I don't have the money for cardboard crack or its digital equivalent, and I used to play a lot with apprentice but apprentice didn't actually have a rules engine it just logged every state change and who initiated it and then counted on the players to play correctly. A functioning rules engine and real card art for free might be enough to get me back into the hobby, or at least back to reading articles and goldfishing myself

edit: oh my god it's got an adventure/overworld mode like the old microprose mtg game from back in the 90s. My heart doth soar, thank you so much for pointing this out!

Outstanding!

I played with the Android build for a bit. Still not ideal since it's ultimately uses someone else's IP, but it's very cool.

I hope to get my own prototype up by this summer. The logic is all server side ( to prevent cheating), so you could even roll your own client.

I'm getting ahead of myself, but I imagine a bunch of related projects. Want to play from a Rust cli app, go ahead!

  • I look forward to playing your game and escaping the nonfree assets (and commercially driven rules changes).