Last week we introduced the basis of Card Hunter deck building – you make a deck by equipping items, each of which puts a suite of cards into your deck. I gave the example of the Puppeteer’s Headband which puts three cards into your deck – two copies of Teleport Other and another card called […]

We ran a poll on Facebook, Twitter and the forum asking what you would like to hear about, and adventuring, character growth and deck building topped the list. Well, you also said you wanted to hear more about the battles, but since we’ve devoted three diaries to that already, this week we’ll discuss characters and […]

Hi there! I’m Dorian Hart, one of the game designers helping to make Card Hunter a reality. In “real life” one of my primary hobbies is being a Dungeon Master for a long-running D&D campaign; I’ve been doing it for over 15 years, so I’m no stranger to creating fantasy adventures.

One of the many design tricks I learned from my good friend and former business partner Ken Levine is the idea of pushing an idea to its extreme in order to find out where the boundary between a good idea and an over-the-top idea is. Often the way you might approach a design or creative issue […]

There’s a lot of development to discuss in these diaries, but at some stage we should talk about, you know, the game. Like what you actually do in Card Hunter and how it actually works. I’m leaping into that today. Last week I wrote that Card Hunter is all about cards. That is true, but […]