📢 OVER-THRONE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
We’ve made some HUGE progress on the Over-Throne website and online game recently, and I wanted to give everyone an update on what’s been happening behind the scenes. One of the biggest accomplishments was finally compiling the Over-Throne card library into actual readable data. Every card has been going through the process of being organized into formats the game can understand, including: 📊 Readable spreadsheets 💻 JSON card data ⚔️ AP / DP stats 💎 VIS costs and elemental requirements 🛡️ Guardian Endurance 📜 Card effects 🃏 Card types and other important card information Before this, the online game mostly knew that a card was an image. Now we’re building it so the game actually knows what that card IS. That means when you play a Legend, the game can know its AP, DP, VIS cost, typing and effect instead of those things simply being printed on the card image. We’ve also started implementing VIS cost checking into the online game, meaning the game can recognize whether you actually have the correct amount and type of VIS available before allowing certain cards to be played. This is a MASSIVE step toward the bigger goal: 🤖 Automatic card effects. Because the game now has structured information telling it what cards do, we can begin working toward effects that automatically interact with the board instead of players having to manually handle everything themselves. Things like: • Drawing cards • Destroying Legends • Freezing cards • Exhausting VIS • Searching the Grimoire • Adding cards to your hand • Modifying AP / DP • Creating Tokens • Paying VIS Essence • Moving cards between zones • Triggering "When Played" abilities • And much more Not every effect will become automatic overnight, but the foundation for that system is finally being built. The important difference is that we’re moving away from the online version simply being a digital tabletop and closer toward it becoming an actual Over-Throne game engine that understands the rules and cards. There’s still a lot of work ahead, but every one of these systems brings us closer to being able to sit down, build a deck, send someone a link, and play a full game of Over-Throne online. Thank you to everyone following the development and watching this game continue to grow. 👑 The throne is getting closer.