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ravenworks gave me the idea a few weeks ago with one of his weird dreams, I've been working on yet another TCG idea.
Blade Clash has been tabled for a while due to my realizing that I'd made it way too complicated, so having a new idea to toy around with is rather refreshing!
Conceptual name: "Too Many Cooks" (as per Raven's request.)
Basic concept:
You and your opponent each have a deck consisting of ingredient cards (beef, potatoes, oregano, salt, water, milk, vinegar, etc.) and cooking action/utensil cards (heat to represent stuff like baking and boiling, spoons for stirring, knives for chopping, etc.), as well as a small number (I'm thinking around 5) of larger "recipe" cards and a "finished meal" section that readied ingredients go into.
You each start with a recipe and X number of cards, trying to get the correct ingredients and actions (example: for a Spaghetti recipe, you could need spaghetti noodles, sauce, water, and ground beef (beef with a chopping card used on it) for ingredients, then a few heat cards for cooking the meat and boiling the water as well as a knife to chop the beef and a strainer for draining the noodles.)
For added excitement, however, if you don't draw the stuff you need, you can try sabotaging your opponent's recipe instead, such as using an unneeded heat card to overcook and, eventually, burn the beef in that spaghetti recipe. If an ingredient gets ruined prior to being added to the "finished meal", you can just scrap that lone ingredient and try again. If the finished meal gets screwed up, however (such as pouring BBQ sauce on a salad), ALL the ingredients in it have to be scrapped, then that player can either start over on that recipe, or discard it for no points and start on their next recipe.
When a player finishes a recipe, they score X number of points for it based on the point value of the recipe, then get a new one. First player to reach a pre-determined score, or to have the highest score when both players are out of recipes, wins!
It's a rough idea at the moment, but like I said back then, this could be much more feasible than it first appears!
ravenworks gave me the idea a few weeks ago with one of his weird dreams, I've been working on yet another TCG idea.Blade Clash has been tabled for a while due to my realizing that I'd made it way too complicated, so having a new idea to toy around with is rather refreshing!
Basic concept:
You and your opponent each have a deck consisting of ingredient cards (beef, potatoes, oregano, salt, water, milk, vinegar, etc.) and cooking action/utensil cards (heat to represent stuff like baking and boiling, spoons for stirring, knives for chopping, etc.), as well as a small number (I'm thinking around 5) of larger "recipe" cards and a "finished meal" section that readied ingredients go into.
You each start with a recipe and X number of cards, trying to get the correct ingredients and actions (example: for a Spaghetti recipe, you could need spaghetti noodles, sauce, water, and ground beef (beef with a chopping card used on it) for ingredients, then a few heat cards for cooking the meat and boiling the water as well as a knife to chop the beef and a strainer for draining the noodles.)
For added excitement, however, if you don't draw the stuff you need, you can try sabotaging your opponent's recipe instead, such as using an unneeded heat card to overcook and, eventually, burn the beef in that spaghetti recipe. If an ingredient gets ruined prior to being added to the "finished meal", you can just scrap that lone ingredient and try again. If the finished meal gets screwed up, however (such as pouring BBQ sauce on a salad), ALL the ingredients in it have to be scrapped, then that player can either start over on that recipe, or discard it for no points and start on their next recipe.
When a player finishes a recipe, they score X number of points for it based on the point value of the recipe, then get a new one. First player to reach a pre-determined score, or to have the highest score when both players are out of recipes, wins!
It's a rough idea at the moment, but like I said back then, this could be much more feasible than it first appears!
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Date: 7/4/12 00:52 (UTC)It feels like the ability to ruin someone else's recipe so easily would lead to nothing getting finished... that was what I liked about the 'communal' concept it had in the dream, where you could 'steal' someone else's meal by finishing it first (but the enormously higher value of more complex meals would make it worth risking continuing to build instead..) - the tendency would be to collaborate until you manage to stab each other in the back, trying to guess what recipe your opponent is trying to make.... (in my version, anyone is free to make any recipe at any time; the factor that would influence someone's choice of recipes would be their hand at the moment... basically, the more I think about it, I think my game is something like Mahjong Hold 'Em....)
The dueling idea is neat, though! Maybe if it just cost a lot more to interfere with someone else's recipe, like if it were only possible to interfere by swapping your ingredients with someone else's, but you can only swap if their ingredient actually does have a role in your recipe... so people would leave holes in their own meals, hoping to fill them as an offensive move if their opponent plays an ingredient they need (and also trying to play cards that they suspect their opponent might swap with as early as possible, so as little damage as possible is done -- but earlier in the round is also precisely when it's hardest to guess what your opponent might need...)
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Date: 7/4/12 01:33 (UTC)If something were added that had no positive or negative benefit (such as throwing olives on a steak), you could spend an action next turn simply removing the offending ingredient. If, on the other hand, your opponent inadvertently tried to ruin a recipe by putting something helpful on, you'd end up scoring extra points on their behalf!
As for how to balance things out...I was thinking limiting the amount of stuff you could do in a turn, making a player think stuff like "Okay, so do I put some mayo on the BLT I'm making, or do I dump it on what appears to be my opponent's goulash?"
...Which, by itself, would completely justify the creation of such a game now that I think about it. :D
All that being said, though, I'm rather glad you put this idea in my head; this is sounding pretty fun!
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Date: 7/4/12 01:39 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/4/12 03:28 (UTC)Kinda crazy how this fits two of my favorite pastimes (card games and cooking) so perfectly, to be honest!
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Date: 7/4/12 01:47 (UTC)I'm thrilled you were there to hear it -- I'm excited just to be involved in this! :D
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Date: 7/4/12 01:40 (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/4/12 01:49 (UTC)