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cobaltplasma — Nine Fields - A Mint Tin Game

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Published: 2019-09-26 00:57:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2458; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 8
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Description So I made that thing! It's a mini deck-building board-control PVP card game that fits into a mint tin, like Altoids-sized little metal thing. It's for a competition going on at The Game Crafter, one of the places i make my card games at. I've always been super fascinated with small things, mini objects and playsets, Micro Machines and Japanese playsets have been a part of my brain for decades, so something like this really tickled my fancy.  It uses art from Fields of Eleria, got the okay from the TGC folks before I went with that, but the game is all its own. 

www.thegamecrafter.com/games/n…

You have a set deck of 54 cards and each turn a player reveals 3 cards from the top of the deck. With 4 dice used as resources they can choose to 'buy' a card from that row, play a card from their hand, draw a card from their deck, or use dice to attack other cards in play on a 3 x 3 grid. First player to control 5 spaces at the end of their opponent's turn wins. Pretty simple but things like the order of actions you take matter, luck of the roll, etc., so it's a pretty variable game that can be played quickly, but also has lots of strategy to it.

Costs $22, the materials cost aren't the cheapest because it's made to order, I just make a couple bucks for each one that sells. I have a small 8-card print-and-play PDF you can download and print up if you want to try out the game, a downloadable rules sheet (it's a simple game, rules all fit on one sheet of paper heh). But yeah, I looooooooove small games like this and it was a lot of fun making my own using assets from my own little universe
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Comments: 11

kaze26 [2019-09-27 14:36:59 +0000 UTC]

Amazing

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cobaltplasma In reply to kaze26 [2019-09-27 17:56:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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kaze26 In reply to cobaltplasma [2019-09-29 14:31:27 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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Qwerty1939 [2019-09-26 17:49:43 +0000 UTC]

Its so delicate and pretty also.
I love how all fits inside a metal box

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cobaltplasma In reply to Qwerty1939 [2019-09-26 17:53:11 +0000 UTC]

Yeah the mint tin container was such an intriguing idea to me, I love small, self-contained things

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Qwerty1939 In reply to cobaltplasma [2019-09-27 06:58:12 +0000 UTC]

Yeah it gives me tickles on spine

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Qwerty1939 [2019-09-26 17:37:29 +0000 UTC]

And you drew all those epic cards yourself?? WOW

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cobaltplasma In reply to Qwerty1939 [2019-09-26 17:53:39 +0000 UTC]

Haha yeah it's art I made for my other card game but got approval by the rules committee folks that it was okay for me to use it here since I created it all ^____^

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devduck01 [2019-09-26 13:38:56 +0000 UTC]

very cool

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cobaltplasma In reply to devduck01 [2019-09-26 17:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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devduck01 In reply to cobaltplasma [2019-09-26 18:33:51 +0000 UTC]

 

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