Card Engine
- May 3, 2024
- Frostzone Entertainment
Get on Steam"Card Engine is a user-friendly game design software that allows you to create your own card games with ease. It features an intuitive interface, a library of licensed stock images for commercial and personal use, and the ability to import your own images and fonts. Organize your decks and cards with drag-and-drop functionality, and export your creations as PNG, JPG, PDF, or XML files."
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The software is user-friendly and allows for easy card creation, making it accessible for beginners and casual users.
- The developer is highly responsive to feedback and quickly addresses bugs, which enhances the overall user experience.
- It offers a good range of templates and assets, making it a solid choice for prototyping and creating custom cards for tabletop games.
- The software lacks some essential features and usability improvements, such as the ability to import CSV files for bulk card creation and a color picker.
- It is not yet suitable for serious game designers looking to create complex or commercial projects due to its current limitations.
- Some users find the template creation process confusing and the layering system unreliable, which can hinder the design experience.
- gameplay1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The gameplay of the product is currently lacking, particularly for serious tabletop and card game designers, as it struggles to support large-scale or complex game mechanics effectively. Users do not recommend it in its present state for those seeking a robust design tool.
“However, it is over halfway through the early access period, and in its current state, I could not recommend this product as a specialty tool for anybody serious about tabletop game design or card game design, as it would likely struggle to properly create any large-scale or mechanically intense game that relies a lot on the features I outlined above.”
- grinding1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Users find the grinding aspect of card game development to be tedious and off-putting, which has deterred them from pursuing their projects.
