Help on the net v2

In my never ending search for articles and help for designing a card game, I found some more links to articles that provide some good insights and help for designing your own card game.

First up is Mark rosewater. He has like a zillion articles about Magic the gathering, and most of his articles are indeed about creating Magic, but if you can read between the lines, you can get a good overview of why certain cards were chosen, and the underlying concept behind it, check it out, it’s a good read:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr80

There is also a very good article about the need of some restrictions in choices a player has when building a deck. In magic´s case; the color pie, but this applies as well to Factions, Clans, Alliances, etc..

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr85


Next up is an article about the creation and ideas of the online CCG: Kongai. It’s an interesting read and may provide you with some helpful hints. It sure did it for me! It talks about they changed a very popular Pokemon game into Kongai, retaining the elements, but adding more layers of strategy. I sure hope I am able to do that with Wuxia Pian

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3673/an_achievementcentered_online_.php

while you are at it, you might as well check out their other articles about game design as well, even though it is more oriented towards computer games:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/article_display.php?category=4

The last link is not so much an article, but a Diagram of The Process of Game Design and Development. This sure sounds like a big balloon of difficult terms and charts with numbers.. nope. It is actually a very simple graph which you can use to check where you are at, what you have missed, and where you are heading.
I say this is a must have for all game designers out there..

http://www.pulsipher.net/gamedesign/GameCreationProcess.htm


For me? I have to say I am dancing around points 4-5-6.. where are you?

BTW, if anyone like to point me to other game designers out there, designing there own game and keeping a blog, please DO