For the past few weeks I've had so many loose ideas pop up with me having no idea what to do with them, or how they'd even fit. And then all of a sudden I get an idea that ties one loose idea with another, implies a few more existing ideas as an effect, and gives yet some more of my earlier ideas a purpose to exist. It's like a giant hole has been filled, and I couldn't think of a better way to tie everything into a theme. Fellow indies, has this ever happened to you?
A lot. Just happened recently with the card mechanic for Nax. I wanted to have a pokemon style collect-em-all aspect to the game. And still hadn't worked on my equipment system, because it felt too generic. then boom. use cards which monsters drops as equips. and have a "card-dex" to fill up by finding all the cards in the game.
Feels so satisfying when it happens, like a moment of clarity.
Sometimes I come up with ideas that I want to make, but probably never will...
The other day, I was just brainstorming for nax's card mechanic and came up with an idea of a standalone triple triad game where you turn monsters into cards, battle, trade, sell with the cards in triple triad minigames. if free to play-> implement booster packs as micro-transactions.
Would probably have to really expand the triple triad ruleset if i were to make a standalone one though, some cards having special abilites, like
"Flight: this card gets a +1 to the bottom side if placed on the top row"
"Center of attention: card gets +1 on all sides when placed in the middle"
"Heater: this card gets +1 on all sides when there are 3 or more fire creatures on the board"
sounds so cool. one day maybe.
