Episode 80: John D. Clair, Card Crafting & Deckbuilders

Amanda Panda is excited to host John D. Clair, who shares insights about his upcoming game, Mystic Lands, launching soon on Kickstarter. Together, they also highlight their favorite deck-building games. Check it out! 

• Introduction
  • Amanda welcomes John D. Clair to the podcast
  • John talks about card crafting and and how he came to develop it
  • Inspiration for card crafting and being inspired by game components 
  • Kinetic design and how he uses it to solve ideas in his games
  • How he works on multiple game designs and the same time
  • They talk about Mystic Lands a stand alone sequel to Mystic Vale
  • Mystic Lands comes to Kickstarter in November 2025
  • Challenges for Mystic Lands art direction with card crafting
  • Ramping up the customization of your deck with an additional layer
  • Challenges of foreground and background art in card crafting
  • Changes to the game that differentiate it from Mystic Vale
  • Expansions and when John develops them
• Deckbuilding
  • John - Hexarchy a Digital 4X Civilization Deckbuilder from Main Tank Software
  • Amanda - Star Realms from Wize Wizard Games
  • John & Amanda - Shards of Infinty from Stone Blade Entertainment
  • John - Dominion from Rio Grande Games
  • Amanda - Mystic Vale from AEG
  • John - Dune Imperium from Dire Wolf
  • Amanda - Clank (In Space) from Dire Wolf
  • John - War Chest from AEG
  • John - Eminent Domain from Tasty Minstrel Games
  • Amanda - Lost Ruins of Arnak from Czech Games Edition
  • Amanda - Orléans from Capstone Games
•  Where can you find us next?
•  Sign off

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