Post by matavious on Sept 8, 2012 12:57:50 GMT -5
So I was thinking about what would make a good prize for ACR tournament. Packs or in game credits are compelling to new players, but many of the best players will already have complete playsets.
The tried and true solution to this is introducing foil cards: cards that are visually different, but functionally equivalent.
So what would a foil card look like in ACR? Like everything else in the game, it would reflect leaving the static paper card world behind and take advantage of its digital environment.
To me that means animation. Now this could be terribly done, but it could also be superbly done. Think less of a looping clip and more what the kids are calling cinemagraphs:
cinemagraphs.com/nyc/
A mostly static image with a subtle bit of keep-alive. Much like the animated paintings in the Harry Potter films brought something taditionally static alive, I think the designers could have great fun:
Harbor of Theodosius: boats sway, flags flutter in the breeze
Altaïr assassin looked up at you after a while
Roma: clouds drift slowly by, perhaps some birds fly past in the distance
Almost any agent card could have some shifting of weight in their pose, or simply blink.
And as most of the artwork is based on renders from in the game, ACR is uniquely positioned to create such animated imagery.
What other cards would be fun?
The tried and true solution to this is introducing foil cards: cards that are visually different, but functionally equivalent.
So what would a foil card look like in ACR? Like everything else in the game, it would reflect leaving the static paper card world behind and take advantage of its digital environment.
To me that means animation. Now this could be terribly done, but it could also be superbly done. Think less of a looping clip and more what the kids are calling cinemagraphs:
cinemagraphs.com/nyc/
A mostly static image with a subtle bit of keep-alive. Much like the animated paintings in the Harry Potter films brought something taditionally static alive, I think the designers could have great fun:
Harbor of Theodosius: boats sway, flags flutter in the breeze
Altaïr assassin looked up at you after a while
Roma: clouds drift slowly by, perhaps some birds fly past in the distance
Almost any agent card could have some shifting of weight in their pose, or simply blink.
And as most of the artwork is based on renders from in the game, ACR is uniquely positioned to create such animated imagery.
What other cards would be fun?
