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Card Artisan is a card battler with RPG and roguelike elements that allows you to not only create your own deck but also create and use your own custom cards!

Become a card designer and create cards from the attack and resistance of your minions to the activation conditions and effects of their abilities!

But that's not all! Every card in Card Artisan past your starter deck is randomly generated, so no two runs will be the same, on top of that include 78 unique pieces of equipment that will shake up your runs with all sorts of abilities that will challenge your creativity to test new kinds of decks and strategies! The possibilities are endless!!

Card Artisan also features easy-to-use integrated tools to create your own mods or download and use community-made mods.

Starting out as a new player can be a bit challenging, so please keep that in mind. I'll implement some sort of tutorial very soon, I promise!

Card Artisan is slowly approaching the end of its development cycle, and in preparation for a full release, all downloads from this page are disabled. The next 7 or so months will be dedicated to working on the Japanese and Spanish translations for the game, adding tutorials, finishing the "Free Battle" mode, and in making sure every placeholder asset is replaced by final and real art and assets.

Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/6WabdUapgM

Updated 13 days ago
StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
AuthorFullen
GenreCard Game, Role Playing
TagsCrafting, Roguelike, Roguelite, Singleplayer

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My deck is always only spells when I start.

Hey friend!

Sorry to hear that you are having issues . 

If you could give me some more info about the situation like which class you are playing, what version you downloaded and maybe a screenshot of your deck I'd really appreciate it!

I just got the notification for this but I'll try and send some screenshots when I can. Not on computer right now

Hey friend!

I just realized I uploaded the wrong version to Itch!!! I'm so sorry! Please download the new version once you get the chance!

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Ok, thanks

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I am loving your game so far! It was the completest game of cards I ever played, and trust me, I played many and many card games like this, but this was so complex and interesting! I just couldn't join the Discord server, and I hated how they removed permainvites.

Hey friend!

Thank you very much for your comment. Here's a new link to the server!

https://discord.gg/qCnebGhUPt

This was a great game, I've unlocked all the subclasses, most easter eggs which I'm looking forward to uncover the rest. I have yet to uncover where to use the 6 awarded gems after clearing each run though. A new link to the discord would be appreciated.

Hey friend!
I just updated the Discord link.

Regarding the gems, they are considered experience points that you can use in the main menu "Upgrades" sub-menu.

i went into the options while fighting enemy then i couldnt interact with cards or anything other than menu things and the next phase button also after leaving and reentering run i can only go into forge which was place before fight but the forge card is black and blank and cannot be interacted with and also i cant progress to next place which is the enemy which bugged before

Hey friend!
I'm sorry to hear that you are encountering issues.

The saves are not working properly on the current version, I will shortly upload a small update that fixes those issues. Unfortunately, your current run is not recoverable and you'll have to start a new run.

Heyow, real brilliant game, and finally an amazing user-generated content system for a card game. It's literally 2000s Yugi-oh but only the good parts. Though there's a massive power balance issue right now (i do enjoy it being wacky and stuff), theres a gigantic space this can fill in the rougelite cards market. 
p.s discord invite pls? just wanna share my meme mod. much thanks. 

Hey friend!
Thank you very much for your comments!

Balance is quite difficult to achieve with how many random aspects the game employs, still, I'll try to improve it down the road!

Here's the invite to the Discord server! https://discord.gg/CAf2kQrYu I'll be happy to see your meme mods!

Really fun, great game.  A welcomed amount of silly that can happen.  Only bad thing I ran into was a logic freeze in battle where I could not confirm things.  It happened 3 times.  Twice where I could not confirm defenders, once where I could not confirm attackers.  The first two I resolved by going back to the main menu and resuming the campaign, though it did mean restarting the fight.  The last I just decided to turn it off and come back in future updates.

Hey friend!

Thanks for the feedback,  the new version is being worked on and it's set to release this week with fixes to those issues you mentioned. I'm very sorry that you had that annoying experience, especially since the bug that causes that is very silly. I hope you come back and check it out this weekend when the new update goes live!

I will definitely be trying it out.  I love games where things are allowed to interact in silly ways.  A bit of power fantasy goes a long way and this game drips with it.  I really do hope that was the goal.  

This game's really fun. I've spent a lot of time on the different deck archetypes now. Unfortunately, the Discord invite is expired.

Hey friend, thanks for your comment!

Here's a fresh invite to the Discord server. 

https://discord.gg/gfzwXuBNb

It goes down every 30 days since Discord decided to limit permainvites to communities.

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Love the game! But would love to see more mods. Also, the Discord invite is expired.

Thanks for letting me know the link expired!
Here's a new one https://discord.gg/gfzwXuBNb .

Regarding mods, I also would love to see more mods created and shared, unfortunately I can't really include them in the base game, so please do ask and share about mods in the server!

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This one is my favourite roguelike deckbuilder EVER.
I streamed it, loved it, and i keep returning to it.

This one is a 10.

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Thanks for the comment, friend!
Would love to watch your stream of it!

Also, a new version will be coming in 10 days or so, so I'd recommend you give it a try when it finally get's posted=

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 It's only getting better. I'm in love with this game.

how did you create the arrow effect from te card to the cursor? (the slay the spire style one)?

Hey friend.

I looked up some tutorial online but I don't quite remember which one or where exactly it was hosted.

cool

yo is the art AI? I really hate I have to ask this but the lighting and visuals are very high quality and very varied. And I found something off in the art and I'm not sure if its intentional.

Hey friend.

The current card art is all placeholders while we wait for the artists to finish working on the real art!

WOAW! {sorry for the late response  btw} uhh Thank You! Ill be looking forward to it!

Wow thanks for letting me know btw, and I apologize for the late response havent been here in a while. Ill be looking forward to it!

How do you start a run? When I hover over "Start Run", it becomes red and clicking doesn't do anything.

Hey friend! 

I'm really sorry to hear you are having problems starting a run, someone else also reported this. 

Can you tell me which platform you are trying to run?

Hi thanks for the quick response! No problem, I'll check again later.  I'm running on Windows.

Found the problem!

I'm so sorry, I'll upload the new version in a minute!

I can't replicate it. But it is not only the starting button not working. I couldn't click on anything on the "Quest screen" too for once. But pressing escape let me back to the other menu and then I could click on those again when going back to the quest menu

Yeah I realized what was going on, some things were being saved properly with the new save system, so people coming from older version (myself included) wouldn't notice this issue, but new players that started on version 0.5.3 or 0.5.4 were probably getting this error.

Thanks for the fix! I'll play when the new version is uploaded :)

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Just some random thoughts. Hope it helps. :

  1. I don't have the greatest computer, but I had low FPS despite a low graphics settings. There are possibly memory leaks as the game keeps getting slower.
  2. Enemy deck quality is too random. The first run I played I ran into a Champion on the ~4th room. It kept spamming that deals 6 damage ability from like turn 3 and I couldn't do anything. It is also common to fight against some cost-2 4|7 minions on the first floor while the floor-2 final boss being a complete pushover.
  3. Some obvious crafting balancing issues, for example:
    1. Exhaust active skill's cost is too low compared to Summon active skill cost. Minions can even activate Exhaust effects mid-fight, making the former has also everything the latter has to offer and much more
    2. Increase mana pool is too cheap. I once got a cost-0  spell that increases mana pool twice. 
    3. Exhume spells easily creates infinite loop, but they can be dirt cheap in term of mana. Insane combined with increase mana. 
    4. Discard and deal damage equal to cost is a bit too powerful: Craft a cost-20 card and bust your opponent. 
  4. The Warrior feels particularly underpowered. Although the starting deck has some synergy, the benefits it offers is only on par with better cards at best, making the class inferior to the Adventurer, who may RnG good cards. For example, you can craft cost-1 3|3 cards , a highly desirable substitute for the starters. Extra health also only delays the inevitable if you are overwhelmed on the field.
  5. Inclarity. For example, it is quite confusing when you say "when you discard cards". Whether it means when I discard my cards, when I discard my opponents' cards, or when my opponent makes me discard my cards, or any combination of the above, or even if it is limited to discarding hands. Counter target minion spell is another enigma. 

Hey friend!

Thanks for your feedback. I'll reply more in depth later, but the new update addressed some of your suggestions.

Version 0.5.3 addressed big memory leak problems, some comparatively very small leaks still exists and I've identifies them yesterday but I wasn't able to address them, hopefully I'll patch them soon enough.

Either way, version  0.5.4 should have better performance for you since I changed the way I manage graveyards.

Cheers!

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10/10 better than magic the gathering, pokemon, and duel monsters

card customization trumps all

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Awesome game, genuinely able to give similar games a run for their money or outright blow them out of the water already. The randomness from the AI generated cards, the cool little features like making your own card as a reward from your progression and you being able to collect gems to influence its power, the potential for different play-styles and win conditions, the ability to add your own images/mods. All of these features put together is a super addictive experience that pulled me in right from the first couple of battles, then it kept surprising me as it went on.

This is already better than many, many roguelike deckbuilders I've played, even some actual TCG's in terms of content and replayability, and even more so in terms of potential. 

Good stuff, I can't wait to see this on steam, I'll be buying right away!

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Thank you so much for your comments, friend!

I'm doing my best to improve and polish the game as fast as I can, and we should be on Steam very soon, so please look forwards to that!

Just to clarify, the cards are Randomly generated, but I wouldn't call them AI generated since the algorithms and logic to randomly create them is all a set of rules created by yours truly. I'm not smart enough to implement AI like that.

Again, thanks for playing and for your nice comments c:

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The bug I encountered:

I played the card  the middle left , selected the 2 cards to exhume then the game stopped to play the effect of the card . I can't do anything impacting the battle who is stuck on this card effect, so I'm forced to give up on my run, even if I am destroying every enemies.


Thank you very much for your nice comments and the bug report!

I'm looking into it right now but I'm wondering how you got yourself in that situation. 

Do you happen to remember what was played before? Your card with Exhume 2 and then destroy 2 target Minions shouldn't be playable without Minions on the field to target. Do you remember if you were able to play it without Minions on the field? Or perhaps you played with minions still on the field but your enemy Repealed them in response?

It's okay if you don't remember, though! Thanks again!

It was a card Exhume 2 and then destroy up to 2 target Minions so I played it even if there wasn't any minions on the field.

I already managed to play it like that earlier on the run so the bug isn't with the lack of minions .
My guess would be the exhume 2 while having no card left.

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Thanks for the clarification, friend!

Plenty of things seem off here. While the card says "Up to 2" in reality, the effect can't be played without targets (This is going to be fixed in version 0.4.1), so for starters, you shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Edit: I just realized, but rather than the situation below, it's likely to be a problem where your cards got milled, and then you tried to use the Exhume effect on the milled cards, which in version 0.4.0 causes a game freeze! This is already fixed in the new version which will be released sometime next week.

Not having cards in deck should have no impact on the Exhume effect, however, what I'm thinking could've been a problem in this version is your opponent's "Gain control of target Minion" ability. Could it be that your opponent stole one of your Minions, then it died, and then you tried to Exhume that same Minion?

At any rate, I've been working on the code for playing cards to fix some issues so hopefully this won't happen in the next update even if I can't reproduce your situation exactly.

Again, thanks for the feedback, it's very helpful!

I only exhumed 2 spells so it can't be monster control shenanigan .

It is most likely this "Exhume effect on the milled cards" that caused my game freeze .

Where are you receiving your bug reports usually ?

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Right now mostly just through Itch because I don't have a proper community space going on at the moment. 

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Incredible game , the only thing it seem to lack for now is some adjustment on the balance and some bug to patch.
I didn't believed it when I had seen that it was only 3 months old.

You can already be proud of you , taking apart the bugs it is already better than most finished paid games.

Just found the game and ended up sinking a couple hours into it without realizing. Really fun and easy to play. Excited to see how it develops.

Thanks for playing! I try to upload new updates as often as possible, so keep an eye out for future updates or for the Steam release later this year!