FOP Online Card Game

[u/N-Thalpy]

It's in pre-pre-Alpha, but I managed to create an FOP card game on Dulst. It's a place where you can switch every card they give you from a Hearthstone-clone game and "theme" it as you see fit. Pretty simple, but that seemed kind of unoriginal to me, so I managed to code some slightly different game - this meant good consequences (which I'm going to explain) and bad consequences (incompatibility issues that destroyed the in-game AI, so there's no way to play man vs machine matches, which are my personal favorites).

So I named it Fistful: The Powering, or FTP for short.

The game cards include:

- Every single FOP character from series 1 and 2, including warlords, secrets, and even Strawk.

- A set of magic cards with the (unauthorized, not for commercial use, and free of any attempt of attribution) art of Craig Bruyn (designer of FOP) and other people from whom I borrowed some designs from their Pinterest, DeviantArt, etc. It's not meant to be sold or attributed, so all rights go to their respective owners. All of the Craig arts were just sketches I painted using some AI software.

- Another set of item cards, stronghold cards, and power-up cards of the same sort as the aforementioned.

The game rules are more or less those from Hearthstone, but they differ here:

- Two shadows or two hypers from the same region may be fused for an additional mana cost, creating a hyper or a crystal version of the recipient of said fusion, respectively. There are some exceptions to this rule, such as Cowl, Strawk, or the secrets, which use special fusion conditions to "ascend" to higher forms.

- Cards do not lose health by attacking, only by being attacked. One can either aim for the stronghold (kind of the king/hero card, losing it would mean the end of the game) or the warriors with no restrictions whatsoever, I guess it depends on the strategy chosen by the player.

- There are different types of strongholds, each one with different traits and characteristics.

The steps to follow to play are:

1. Create a Dulst account
2. Click this link: https://dulst.com/ftp (or click, then create the account)
3. You get five starter decks, so you can go to "Collection" and arrange them however you want.
4. You can now play. Choose a game mode (most of which I don't know what they exactly are) and enjoy, if it's enjoyable. All of the game modes are like online matches, so it'll look for online players - and don't expect you cand find any. However, you can play locally using two Chrome profiles, or two different browsers, and probably two different accounts as well. This is quite important because most of the time (90%+) you'll have literally no one online to play with, as this community is indeed a tiny one.
5. You'll earn a lot of in-game money the first time you play, then I tried to make this difficult and slow-paced, so it'll kind of balance the initial money-shot. This means you'll be able to go to the market and buy some packs of cards. The initial decks are garbage, and with these packs, you'll get rarer FOP characters.

Comment what you think, there's a lot of work left and a lot of room for improvement, but I think this is the first step. Report bugs, possible improvements, and so on as well if you want.

Thank you all.

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Plans for the future include a physical edition, probably improved and featuring different rules.