Triple Triad!

[Shizuma Kamira]

I thought it might be cool to perhaps add a Triple Triad-esque game here to FF:JE. For those familiar with how the FF8 card game worked, it would be similar principles here with certain monsters, summons and of course canon FF characters having a card with 4 numbers on them. The unique cards would be those of the original characters folks made here or perhaps unique NPCs that are specifically on this site each having their own special little card. Of course character cards would be the rare one-of-a-kind types that would be hard to obtain.

It would mostly be an OOC type of game for members to play with in between IC posts and perhaps gain a little gil along the way for one of their characters. It could also be played IC if a DM wanted to throw that in the story at some point for their DMies. They could gain cards as they would in FF8, playing other members for each others cards or perhaps after certain IC or Colosseum battles getting rare cards to add to one's collection as well.

Heck, you could even make some sort of class out of it if this kind of idea could take off. Call it a Gambler or Duelist for kicks XD They could have special abilities relating to the cards they collect or something to that effect.

As for how the cards could be made, I'm not a photoshop expert but I could help create some if we had a template for dimensions. Finding monster pictures off the internet wouldn't be that hard to do as far as shrinking them down and putting them into small card forms that could fit into the squares for the tables. Members could also link a picture of their characters to a thread specifically for card making to keep it simple, and those who aren't based off some other character we can find a way to work with them.

I'm not sure how well tables work on proboards either but I'm sure they're an easy fix, I'm just not used to trying them on here.

Well anyways, I just brought up the idea so I could get a quick way outside of the Colosseum of getting some gil. Besides I remember long hours of enduringly battling on FF8 for those rare cards and how fun it was coming up with strategies to beat my opponents and steal their cards for my benefit. No biggie if it sounds too much, but if you guys want to go for it I'll pitch in as much as I possibly can, after all I suggested it right? XD

[Demon Lord]

Crikey... TT again x.x. I'm... not against it, its just a heck of a lot of set up and to find/create a way to actually simulate play. I know back before pro boards we used tables, but pro boards isn't as simple as groups was, plus creating cards x.x.

[Shizuma Kamira]

I'm definitely all in for creating cards, doesn't take that much to set those up. Like I mentioned before I'm not a shop pro, but I can get done the basic concept, even if there will be a ton to create. I think the most difficult part is just finding nice images and the deciding numbers, but I'll leave the number distribution up to the staff.

The one thing that worried me the most was the table and as you said simulating the play. I know you can set up some tables through proboard as I can see the little grid tag icons, but I have no idea how one would fit the images into a 3x3 table in the correct spot. If we could just get that concept down, so members can reply easy enough to each following post of the grid with the new card placed, it should be smooth sailing from there.

I'm sure there's a few proboard specialist sites that can hopefully help to simplify the table problem, I wouldn't mind looking into it since I have some time on my hands this friday and saturday. I really want to give this a go since the concept itself is not difficult, just all the technical aspects of setting things up.

I figured to keep track of the card database, you could have a super thread, separating into tiers of how powerful certain cards are. You'd have the url for the card with the image on top so members could easily identify what they have and what they want to go look for to add to their collection. The rare cards could have quests and/or certain requirements to obtain them, especially if one wanted to get their own character card, unless the staff just wanted to freely gift them, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

As long as you Bel and the rest of the staff are okay with the idea, I'll definitely try my best to figure out what's needed to make it simple for everyone to participate in and of course help make the cards. XD

[FF:JE Manager]

I can create the cards easy, its the time finding the images and even then there might be copies of the cards in FF8 lurking around in the ether so they might not need to be made. Just custom member cards. I have a quick look and finding the template for the golden trimming on the cards is almost non existent so might have to make a separate trimming for custom member cards not sure.

Me and Bel will work out the numbers for each custom member card and we will stick up a thread for those that want one, each member will get their own custom card from the start of course.

Anyways I will have a look tonight or tomorrow about it.