Post your best CARD IDEAS and I'll make pictures out of them

[Evil Hamster]

So those images are pulled directly from the client?

I would have assumed he used layers to get that "sliding" effect...

[chriskang]

So those images are pulled directly from the client?

Not exactly.
As you guessed, the final image in the game is obtained by putting 3 or 4 layers on top of each other.
First the background image, which is a simple jpg.
Then the 2 frames.
For upgraded cards, you add the lightening effect in the top-left and bottom-right corner
And finally the specific card image inside the top frame, the text in the bottom frame, the card name and stats.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce all this offline because I can't find a way to extract the alpha channel from intermediate layers (my software is only able to produce jpg's out of the swf).

So I had to take real screenshots in game and stack them with the background image. Once the background image and the screenshot are exactly on top one another, I just had to remove the written parts of the screenshot and the specific card image and let you see the background by transparency.

P.S. I always feel like i'm totally impossible to understand when I speak technical 

[Scaredgirl]

I made a template for Elements cards: http://elementstheforum.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,1022.0.html (http://elementstheforum.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,1022.0.html)

Everyone can now design their own cards. If you don't know how to use Photoshop, I can do it for you.

[shockwire]

how about A card for Fire


like there is Posion and Freeze n crap


Why not a Burn card
deals dmg every turn or what not.

ill edit this later today, Im going to bed Rllllly tired

[bobcamel]

CARD NAME: ELEMENT: CARD TYPE: CARD COST: ATTACK/HP: ABILITY: COST: EFFECT:

**Sand man** **Earth** **Creature** (Character, Permanent, Spell) **5** **3/1** **Reassemble** **Free, auto** **When this creature would be killed, it loses all its AP and becomes burrowed. This creature also unburrows, cures poison on itself and regains all its AP at the end of each turn.**

Unkillable.

[Bloodshadow]

bomcamel/Minnakht, your Sand Man is weak. My Time Lord in the other thread is better, since it is also unkillable.

@Others: I am not flaming him. This is just a regular bout of our "friendly arguments".

[Evil Hamster]

I like the sand man idea- except lightning/fire damage should turn him into glass man

[bobcamel]

See, BS? Some people like him.

Evil, this'd be too hard to program, my guess. Also, Imma introduce a fix, as this one has a loophole.

[Evil Hamster]

Glass man:

3/1

Whenever glass man does damage it dies and returns to your hand as a shard

 

[Bloodshadow]

Shard?

Unless there is some card that allow you to temporarily upgrade a card in game...

On topic:
SG, seems like you don't have any cards actually made... Or maybe it's just that I didn't look hard enough...