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Fortunately, in steam, gog and android there is a digital version of Through the Ages, which is 100% faithful to the physical game, has a lot of challenges and online play. That's mainly how I play, and a 4 player game with AI takes about 20 minutes.
I sold my physical copy of it. It was a difficult decision, because it's probably the best card game ever made. But it's very fiddly, and it takes about 1 hour per player. In the end for strategy games I care about making meaningful decisions, not fiddling with pieces.
When I was a kid I liked to collect Panini trading cards of Dragon Ball and other mainstream TV shows from the time. To me, the form factor of a card is amazing:
- in a small piece of paper, the artist needs to convey a picture shot which is significant and visible enough, as well as some text or description
- they are usually standard size of 63x88, which makes it easy and cheap to find sleeves and all kind of goodies like binders
- because of the previous points they are easy to store everywhere without occupying too much space
This fascination for cards made me get into card-related hobbies as a growing adult, like cardistry, card magic tricks, Magic the Gathering, LOTR LCG, as well as collecting. I was motivated to intensively play card-related games (nowadays my favorite card games are Race for the Galaxy, Through the Ages and Slay the Spire, and keep collecting valuable cards from TCG games (until prices started to skyrocket, the point where I decided to leave).
For a long time, I stopped collecting, but about two years ago I wanted to collect cards again, which coincided with the apparition of Lorcana (which has beautiful cards of my favorite Disney characters). The problem? I was not willing to sink in an enormous amount money. Still, I wanted to have something special and meaningful to me.
What did I do? Easy, I created my own cards! I created a krita template (which I will share when it is polished), grabbed fanart and screenshots of my favorite movies, shows and videogames, and designed cards for them and printed them into my local printer shop. And the result was amazing, I learnt a lot in the process and it's given me a lot of ideas on other kinds of cards I could print.
If you've reached this far, thank you very much for reading my story!
When I was a kid I used to collect Dragon Ball cards printed by Panini. Decades later and scavenging my parent's basement I found the collections. Unfortunately even if I remember completing all the collections, some of the cards were in a bad shape or missing, so I decided to fetch the missing ones in a second hand market (like a grown-up kid fetching and bartering cards 😂 ) till I managed to rebuild the collection back to its former glory.
So now I can showcase the binder where I keep my entire collection with pride. Posting the images, though I don't know if I should have made a video instead. Gotta think about it.
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Tetris attack is nice. If you had a Gameboy color, try Pokémon puzzle challenge, you'll love it!