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Mercenary Alliance

Senior Capstone - Individual Project

Hire a set of mercenaries to do your bidding.  Mercenary Alliance is a trading card style game that pits you against another enemy in a battle of wits and a little luck.  Attach items to your mercenary team to bolster their might.  Win the game by either destroying your foe, or by gaining a certain amount of gold pieces.

Work created myself - Game concept, rules, physical prototype construction

Not by me - All artwork, game pieces

Heavily influenced by previous collectible card games such as Magic the Gathering and Hearthstone.

This is a game created during the semester of spring 2020 for the University of Texas at Dallas for my capstone.  Work began on paper notecards.  Many rule ideas and game mechanic ideas were either revised or tossed out during many playtesting sessions.  The core game works mostly as intended after playtesting.  One major game mechanic concerning winning the game by obtaining gold needed more work.  

 

One major game mechanic that was focused heavily upon was using a stockpile of gold to summon mercenaries onto the field.  Another was the ability of many cards to have a dice roll check in order for the player to use.   

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