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You may be right, a few other commenters said something similar.

Ahh... I used Stable Diffusion!

I'll have to check out Duel Monsters, maybe can get some more inspiration. Have you ever seen Angelic Layer?

I wish it were pogo pins, but they're so expensive. I'm using spring fingers and they're surprisingly reliably and durable (so far).

I'll look into using a demultiplexer, because maybe then I could afford the pogo pins.

Ah yeah, the current cards do not have batteries.

Ah! Finally, I have a word for it!

Whoah, interesting. I might noodle on that idea a bit.

A few people have told me I should play that game. Guess I know what I'm doing for the rest of the week :D

Thanks! And thanks for the tip! I may reach out to continue the conversation and shoot ideas back and forth if that's okay :)

yeah!

I might do that!

By the way, I've been following your posts here for years! I'll trade you cards for candy!

Ooh hey, yes this could work.....

I think I'd need funding for that though, can't bootstrap a platform without that first blockbuster game.

sure

Oh cool, good idea!

Oh hey, that'd totally work. I wouldn't even need a timer, I could detect when a card is placed back onto that spot.

So in a way, you could "leave" traps or powerups on spots on the base, and your character activates them when it lands there.

(obligatory: 'you've activated my trap card')

Thanks, I'll check that one out too.

Timers are totally doable.

Love to! Email me? jonah@wyldcard.io

Thanks, I've got a patent attorney in the family; I'll see if I can get a discount ;)

Really? Any specific funds you think I should talk to?

Can intro me to anyone? email me: jonah@wyldcard.io

I was thinking, very possibly, if I found some angel investors who also love boardgames.....

And baseball cards predate that

That't a neat idea. I was thinking of genetic algorithms for 'breeding' cards, and maybe AI image synthesis for the pictures?

I thought it'd be so cool if all the cards from one town look one way, and they're different the next state over. So when you go on a school trip, you can pick up cards not available in your area.

So cool! I love it!

I've got the starter set sitting at home :D Haven't played it yet, but wanted to check it out.

hey, yeah! The commenter about the iPad is also right, but, there's something satisfying about the physicality.

That said, you can play poker with a deck of cards and a pile of beans.

But yeah, I'm looking for something somewhere between Poker and an iPad.

See my other comment, a lot of interesting mechanics are available.

I'd sell you a poker set if you want to impress your friends :D Email me: jonah@wyldcard.io

Yeah, I've been thinking evolving characters. Also more complex algorithms that you can't do on paper or in your head (and can't inspect).

When watching TV shows that have cool card games, like Yu-Gi-Oh, it seems like the game doesn't have rules, but instead the kids reason about the characters by looking at the pictures. Weird unexpected stuff happens all the time, I was thinking about how to implement that in the real world.

For example, imagine a vampire card that has its eyes closed. You try using it, but it doesn't do anything. But, you notice that when you play at night the eyes are open and now it's a powerful vampire!

So you can do time-based mechanics, I could add location-based mechanics. You can also make the cards do different things based on what other cards are in play.

Oh, that's not a bad idea. I could do a kickstarter, sell kits or fully-assembled ones that way. It would be about $300-$400 for 3 cards and a base in this iteration and at low volumes.

Think I should do it?

Actually, the cards already have magnets in em, so these would work on your fridge already.

But you need a base station to update them, and a way to connect to your network to upload images/text.....

If you email me your address, I'd be happy to send you one for your fridge :D

Yeah, I can run it on an stm32, which is what I'd do for an early Kickstarter where I only have to make <100.

Since I only made two, it was easier just to keep it on the raspi for now.

I'd settle for Richard Garfield ;)

You think I should patent? Isn't that going to cost me like 20 grand? Plus if Wizards of the Coast really wants to, they can work around my patents somehow.

If I could patent for only a couple thousand dollars maybe I would..... But I WANT other game developers to use this idea. Just, if they want to skip ahead, they can work with me, I'd be happy to share.

Yeah! I'm thinking a mixture of Magic the Gathering and Tamagotchi. Where the cards can level and grow like an RPG.