Here's me trying it out to see how the card should behave. I decided to solve the problem myself, in animation. I naively thought we could have the card in actual 3D and simulate the physics but that was quickly discarded as too complicated. The basic idea was simple but making a card fly in 3D inside a hand-drawn 2D game was a big challenge. So it was storyboarded and written from very early on in the project, becoming a necessary part of the story. We immediately thought we had to have something like this in the game. The idea came from this brilliant demonstration by legendary magician Ricky Jay. It seems absurd that such a short one-off moment took us so much work. Throughout the game, this technique appears just once and the interaction lasts only a few seconds. We spent more time working on this interaction than on any other technique in the game. If you played Card Shark it might surprise you that out of all the different mini-games, the “Card In Hat” was by far the most difficult one to develop. The original Reigns and two sequels are available on Steam for just a few dollars each! It's currently available on Android and iOS for Netflix subscribers HERE. Based on the beloved epic, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it doesn't just have the most story, it also has an entire deck-building card battle minigame with online multiplayer duels. Multiple instalments and an official Game of Thrones game later, we have just released Reigns: Three Kingdoms [the most ambitious version yet. You'll need that time to uncover the mystery behind your newfound immortality. Your consciousness is transported into the next heir so that you can continue your reign. Your military is too weak? Warring kingdoms will have your head.īut death isn't the end. The peasants become too prosperous? They don't need your leadership anymore. If any of those 4 get too high or too low, you'll die a gruesome death. Each decision may impact the 4 stats which represent your areas of influence. Swipe right to accept or swipe left to reject. As a kingdom's ruler, advisors come to you with their problems. It was a simple but very clever concept, described as Tinder x Game of Thrones. After some bad luck on other projects, Francois (the original himself and lead writer of Card Shark), developed the first Reigns game in 2016. A New Game by our Studio Before Card Shark, our studio was founded out of the Reigns series of narrative strategy games.
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