Some General Expansion Info

Celestial Forge will include campaign content, new figures, and new monsters, but, maybe most excitingly for some of you, it will include new cards and items for the first time since 2016’s Castle Mitternacht update. Celestial Forge is steeped in the aesthetics of our Celestial figures and “zen” tileset board rotation. We are also hoping to release an exciting new feature alongside the update that we cannot reveal quite yet.

I am not revealing story details today–the new singleplayer content will be revealed at a later date–but we are going to be playtesting the new items in a PvP context alongside the aforementioned balance changes. To that end, this post will just serve as a complete ‘visual spoiler’ of the new cards in Celestial Forge, as a reference during testing.

Please note the following:
– new card names, art, and effects subject to change.
– these new cards do not have flavor text yet. This is not an omission; it will be added before release.

New Celestial Forge Cards

Awful Flames (staves)

Brain Freeze (arcane items)

Curse Attraction (human skills)

Curse-Hardened (martial skills)

Curse of Amnesia (all)

Curse of Exhaustion (all)

Curse of Hunger (all)

Dark Pulse (divine weapons)

Drown (arcane items)

Empty Body (divine armors, heavy armors)

Empty Fist (divine weapons, weapons)

Empty Mind (divine weapons, divine items, divine armors)

Empty Palm (shields, divine weapons)

Empty Tracks (boots)

Frozen Core (staves, arcane items)

Grinding Aura (robes)

Honorable Attack (weapons, divine weapons)

Honorable Block (dwarf skills)

Hot Spring (divine items)

Hungry Plate (heavy armors, divine armors)

Iai Strike (weapons)

Icy Apparition (staves)

Lunging Drain (divine weapons, divine items)

Mempo (helms)

Restless Seal (shields)

Restless Talisman (all)

Stoic’s Blade (weapons)

Subtle Arts (elf skills)

Vow of Poverty (divine skills)

Winter’s Embrace (arcane skills)

Happy New Year!

We launched in September and it’s been one crazy ride; we have tons of new players signing up each month and a thriving multiplayer arena. We’ve been nominated for Best Debut at the Game Developers Choice Awards !

Winter Sale – Get Club Membership Now!

From now until February, we’re offering 25% off the Card Hunter Club! There’s never been a better time to go take on the evil denizens of Cardhuntria, especially as club membership gives you a Club Reward item in *every* chest you win, whether it’s in our single-player campaign or in multiplayer. So what are you waiting for? Join the Club and show those Kobolds what’s what!

Mauve Manticore Arrives!

Did you know that you can now create and play custom scenarios? These user created battles present unique new challenges, courtesy of you or your fellow Cardhuntrians!
The in-game Mauve Manticore magazine collates the best of these and rewards with you with great loot when you beat them. You can find the latest edition of Mauve Manticore on the campaign map after you’ve beaten Beneath the Frozen Earth. Issue #2 is out now!

Want to find out more about creating your own custom scenarios? Check out this tutorial

Got Stuck? Can’t Raise Your Rating?

Did you get stuck on a tough adventure? Need to ask about your character build? Why not visit our forums for help? We have one of the most helpful and friendly communities out there and they never hesitate to assist any player with questions and concerns. Here are a few highlights:

– Want to make some gold quickly? This is the thread for you.
– Having problems with those 1 HP quests? Check out these helpful tips.
– Need information on items? Here’s a complete item spreadsheet

What’s Coming?

Great new stuff is coming this year. Here’s just some of what’s in the works:
– Entirely new campaign adventures, featuring new cards, new items and tough new monsters to challenge you.
– Brand new multiplayer tournaments with great prizes!
– And, we’ve already released a web based API that will let you create your own player profiles or run tournaments.

Well done everyone, and best of luck for when we go live!

<3
Farbs

Welcome to the third episode of “Card Versus” series. Joe takes on Alec Meer from Rock, Paper Shotgun at Card Hunter, followed by an interview. 1) Apologies for the poor sound quality on Joe’s recording 2) The interview starts at 43.30 of the recording. Alec Meer is a writer for http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/

If you watch carefully, you can see the world map, a bit of deck building, looting, levelling up and, of course, some card battling!

One such piece of art is the world map. When we first came up with the world map the details of exactly how it would be used were a little hazy. This meant that for a while we weren’t precisely sure how it would fit into the look and feel of the game. “Surely a map is a map?” I hear you say. Well, yes, but something we have worked hard to achieve in Card Hunter is the feel of a physical (mainly cardboard) boxed game. This raises frequent questions about what is meant to be a piece of card or paper, and what is game user interface (otherwise known as UI).

Here are the older map and the newer one side by side:

The newer map is now squarely in the “It’s made of paper” camp. There are visible fold lines and the colors are less intense.  It looks a little empty, because the map is the background onto which we place our locations and adventures, which are re-positionable by the designers.

The land masses will be stocked with adventure, but there were a few areas of ocean that probably wouldn’t be at first. What does this mean? It means something is needed common to any self-respecting olde-world map. Sea monsters drawn in the gaps.

So for your edification and amazement, we present the most terrifying and legendary of the Cardhuntrian ocean beasts to roam the nine seas!

Gargantuan, belligerent and malodorous!

Unpredictable, devilishly devious and malicious!

Patient, ravenous and enormous.

The five-armed berserker of the deep!

Be he God or Apparition? A destroyer of boats and a sailor's most hideous nightmare...

And finally, the most important question. Based upon your own travels, adventures and wisdom.. Which of these would win in a fight?

We’ve had our heads down these past few weeks, so though we’ve made a lot of progress on the game we haven’t had time to tell you about it. To address this I thought it might be fun to link our source control system to twitter, so when we submit a change to the project you can read about it. I asked Rudolpho, a helpful pack mule from the game, to transcribe each message by hoof. So far he’s done a fantastic job. Great work, Rudolpho!

You can find his twitter feed here, where in amongst the bugfixes and tweaks you’ll catch glimpses of adventures, characters, and game mechanics.

Enjoy, and happy glimpsing!
– Farbs