Project 7: A Hockey Card Game: Wrap-Up

I messed around with the mechanics for the hockey card game for a while but basically hit a point where I realized that designing a balanced and interesting card game is pretty hard. So until I get inspired to do the work to finish this, it's an abandoned project for the time being.

Project 7: A Hockey Card Game

I vaguely remember from my childhood playing a card game based on a game of hockey. Luckily thanks to the Internet, I've managed to find some record that it existed.

Still I've been kind of inspired to try to create a game out of this. I've had some discussions with some friends over the years and I feel like I want to try to make my own card based hockey game for two players.

Right now I'm not sure how all the pieces will fit together, but my plan is to have a rink between the two players with a puck that can be either in the neutral zone the defensive zone or the offensive zone. One player will play cards to try to move the puck down the ice and get it into the net. The other player will then try to play cards to stop the first player and get hold of the puck on their own. When they do then they switch and play goes the other way. Each card will have a situation in which it can be played,  and will indicate the situation that results after the card has been played.

I'm not sure if I want to create this as a physical artifact or a computer game, but I think for the first testing stages I'm going to create the cards in real life. For my first outing I'm going to do a smaller set of cards and then expand them over time if things are actually working. This will also let me know if this is actually any fun at all.

Given that Table Top Day (March 30) is coming up soon, I'm going to try to see if I can round up some friends who were going to play board games anyway on that day and trick them into doing a little play testing of this first round for me.