Trading Card Game Research

The research will look in to a trading card game and certain components of them. Mainly, certain functions of them and why they work in that platform, any cross over mechanics I could bring over, anything else that the company has done with the card game that's not related with cards.

Pokemon

Overview:
Pokemon is a very big franchise created in 1996 by Game Freak. First a game (which is still an ongoing series) on the Nintendo Game Platforms. After the game was developed, a trading card game and anime series were created in Japan and published then around the world. Became incredibly popular among the younger demographic and some in the teenage demographic. The trading card game is very wide and is still popular today along with other trading card games such as Yu-Gi-Oh. With having nearly 600 pokemon to get, collect, battle and trade together with your friends. The pokemon trading card game is either played for collecting the numerous amounts of cards there is or for battling your friends using the battle method made for the game.

Certain Components:


Battle System:
The battle system uses numerous components in making the battle system work. It combines luck, chance, strategy and your collection of cards together. With these elements you fight each other with your pokemon, taking advantages of weaknesses, resisting strengths, evolving and changing the pokemon, attacking with the moves given to the characters which sometimes have other factors affecting them such as luck and strategically placing them in order to attack efficiently. The system is really utilized well as all these components are put together coherently and work well along side each other.

Trading Card Game Example. This particular card shows the mixture of components. (Luck)














Grouping by Types:
Even though not a thing i'll be using, I like how they group the cards through types in the game.In pokemon, each monster has a type such as fire or water which they follow in their types. Each type in the game has types they can defeat and types that they can resist. The types make the styles differentiate and look of the creatures making them all individual and good looking. The attacks and battle system differentiate because of this and makes the battle system, always changing and different every time you fight against another player.