Minion Creator
What is this?
A reaction-based card game about building and impeding the other player

The players use decks of cards to build “minions” to attack their opponent. Both players simultaneously place cards, building minions piece by piece and stopping the other player from progressing. The first player who builds two minions and can land two attacks at the same time wins the game.

Story
The Duel Between Dual Deities
A blue deity and a red deity find themselves in an intense rivalry. Instead of fighting directly, both have the amazing ability to build minion soldiers and give them a soul, thereby giving them life.
Using these minions, each deity plans to attack the other in order to rule the entire land. They must act quickly and ruthlessly, defeating the other deity before they are defeated themselves.
Using these minions, each deity plans to attack the other in order to rule the entire land. They must act quickly and ruthlessly, defeating the other deity before they are defeated themselves.

GAME RULES
How to Play

Initial game setup
1. Once the game begins, both players place cards on the table to create minions.2. Minions are created with an initial core card, then head and legs, and then finally a soul card. The player who places the soul card owns the minion.
3. Once a minion is complete, the owner can place an attack card on the minion to initiate an attack.
4. The first player to initiate 2 attacks wins simultaneously.

Example of a completed game with the Blue side winning
Things to Know
Each player must always have a hand of 5 cards in their hand and hidden from the other player.
Once a player places a card or card(s), they use their free hand to take cards from their deck, replenishing their hand of 5.
If a player cannot make any moves with their current hand, they must wait until they can make a move while their opponent still plays.
If both players can’t make any moves with their current hand, they can agree to place their hand on the bottom of their deck and then drawing 5 new cards from the top. Play resumes after one player counts down and says “Go.”
Once a player places a card or card(s), they use their free hand to take cards from their deck, replenishing their hand of 5.
If a player cannot make any moves with their current hand, they must wait until they can make a move while their opponent still plays.
If both players can’t make any moves with their current hand, they can agree to place their hand on the bottom of their deck and then drawing 5 new cards from the top. Play resumes after one player counts down and says “Go.”
DESIGN
How decisions regarding game mechanics and visual design helped the playability and usability of the game

Early brainstorming of game mechanics
Various design decisions went into the creation of this game in order to provide a satisfying and balanced game experience. Going into this project, I had no experience designing games or dealing with game mechanics. For this particular game, I was inspired by card game Speed, fighting video games, and mix-and-match monster books for children.Since this is a game that rewards speed, I wanted a concept that was straight-forward to comprehend. There are several rules to this game, however, the cards relate to each other in an intuitive fashion. Minion cards are composed of head, body, and legs. Secondly, the utility cards are fashioned as natural add-ons like a "Soul" or "Sword." Though the story of this game is unimportant, the mechanics are what led the story rather than the reverse.


