Quintessence: Beyond the Watchtowers

A project for My First Game Jam, Summer 2022.

Quintessence: Beyond the Watchtowers is an anime-styled analogue card game in the vein of Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon and most especially Kaijudo, nee Duel Masters.  

In it, you are a Warden, one of the wizards who protects the Technical World from the creatures and sorcery of the Magical World.  Cross over to befriend monstrous allies and learn the quintessential magic you use to attune to them and call them to battle!

Features include:

• No mana screw - every card can be a resource
• the Ward system, based on Shields from Duel Masters/Kaijudo
• Uses and is compatible with SillyRookie's Strike Engine
• I straight-up can't afford to do booster packs so unless I can do a digital version this will be a stand-alone game instead of a TCG
• Not an NFT game, and we will never do blockchain garbage

The game jam project will be a playable prototype with at least two decks with 15 unique cards each,  sketchy art, and a rulebook.  If we're lucky, we'll have 75 unique cards with multiple viable deck archtypes; if very lucky, 110 cards. I will continue development from there and hope to have a 220 card base set, with cards designed for different rarities.

Art of Jonoichi Gouto by Cerise.

Made by The Other Worlds Tourism Bureau, who are:

• Producer, Editor, and Lead Designer Talia Elli B
• Graphic Designer R. Malsin
• Writer and Game Designer Fabricati
• Writer and Artist FoxHana
• Planning and Logistics NekoIncardine

And featuring in no particular order the art of:

• MakioKuta
• QuantumVaudeville
• Ian "Dr. Nemesis" Froud
• Cerise
• Armatage Shanks
• PastelDeity