Hello everyone! As a devoted fan of this game a few days ago I created my own project of playing cards in “King’s Bounty The Legend” universe. This is my first project like this and I would like to know your opinion about this cards. Maybe do you have some tips about something that can be improved?
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Uh, mate, it’s like you’ve tried to design a card game without ever seeing any cards used by actual games. Take a look at how Hearthstone, MTG or WH40k: Conquest cards are laid out (or perhaps at how the Might & Magic: Duel of Champions cards were), then how it’s done in non-collectible games like Tyrants of the Underdark or Dune Imperium.
Generally the convention is to convey information without much text, often indicating attributes with icons or shortening rules to keywords (see: MTG). Your layout is crowded where it shouldn’t and then sparse where it should be packed, uses text where icons would suffice, uses text that’s redundant with icons you already have (faction, damage type) and even has inconsistent text sizes because you ran into limitations of the layout you chose.
All of these are things you can improve on with just a little effort.
As a very crude alternate layout: https://imgur.com/a/Tt0nDKr . That is still super busy – among other things, perhaps the damage type could be a background for the damage numbers themselves? – but the text is reduced to a minimum and the layout makes the illustration a point of focus for the players rather than the total strength as in your design