Alpha next week
My apologies for the lack of updates recently, I’ve been racing to finish off features so that I can start alpha testing asap. As this point, it’s the little things, stuff like…
…an options menu…
…credits screen…
…loadup screens (placeholder background)…
…demo nag screen (placeholder art)…
…in-game popup notifications to remind you what new options are available to you…
…miscellaneous bug-fixing and, of course, redoing the UI colour scheme yet again (more blue, goes better with the art I feel).
Still a few features left to finish, like the card duel victory/defeat screens, right now it looks like this.
And I also still need to do the tutorial popups. But very close to feature complete now!
Feature complete isn’t the same as content complete, there’s still a few more pieces of art to come in, music tracks to be finished off, a few sound fx to add and a whack of text still to write, and of course lots of balancing to do this month, but I can say with confidence that alpha testing will start next week. 
Almost at the finish line. And I must say, between the excitement of nearing the finish and the anxiety of my nearly drained bank account, it’s a bit of an emotional roller coaster right now. Just gotta push the fear aside, keep focused, get it done.
I’m actually pretty excited to play this even though I have no experience with these types of card games.
Also, what have you been using to program this, like language and any APIs?
Thanks!
I’ve used Unity Free with the NGUI plugin for gui work. Unity core’s gui stuff is a pain, but NGUI fixes that. Which is good, since the game is practically ALL gui.
Everything is coded in C#.
Oh excellent, I’ve been meaning to take a look at Unity for a while now.
And since you’ve been using Unity do you have any plans of a mobile port?
Plan right now is to release on PC, then look at tablets and MAYBE phones after that. Unity makes the actual porting easy, but resizing the UI will be the main challenge. Tablets should be easy enough, phones I’m unsure of.
Assuming the game is popular enough, I’ll try though
Best of luck with it all!