Card game maker: design your own trading card game

What you can make

A trading card game is more than a pile of cards. TCG Maker covers the whole game, so what you design is playable the same day.

• Cards with a card designer: full arts, holo and rainbow finishes, frames, fonts and your own images.
• Card types with their own stats, such as health, cost or attack, and attacks or effects on each card.
• Rarities with the odds you choose, and boosters with a wrapper and a tearing animation.
• Sets, decks and deck rules for every play format.
• The rules of the game itself: turns, resources, zones, attacks, statuses, shops and win conditions.

How to make a card game, step by step

1. Pick a starting point: a blank game, or a copy of one of the example games that you then change as much as you like.
2. Define your card types and their stats, so every card has the same structure.
3. Make the cards: set the art, the stats, the attacks and the rarity of each one.
4. Write the rules with blocks. Each rule is a small script you assemble: when a turn starts, gain mana; when a card is played, deal damage.
5. Build a deck and test the game against the AI until it feels balanced.
6. Publish your TCG, or keep it private, and send the code to your friends.

Rules without code

The rules are built with visual scripting. Blocks snap together like puzzle pieces: events such as the start of a turn, conditions, actions on resources, cards and zones. You can read a script out loud and understand it, which makes it easy to fix when a card is too strong.

If you prefer to describe a game and let an assistant build it, you can also connect Claude to your account and ask it to create the cards and the rules for you.

Start from an example game

Every example is a full card game made with TCG Maker. Play it, read how its rules are built, or copy it and make it yours.

• SPAM: a squad game with four cards in play and a shop every other turn.
• Sticky: emojis stuck on phone cases, with bytes, battery and stickers.
• Heroes and minions: rising mana, minions, battlecries and deathrattles.
• Pocket monsters: an active monster, a bench, energy and evolutions.
• Grimoire: mages who write their spells during the game, rune after rune.

Free, in your browser

There is nothing to download. Playing against the AI, opening boosters and joining a friend's game work without an account. A free account is needed to create and publish your own TCG, and to add friends. The card editors are meant for a computer, while playing and collecting work well on a phone.

Questions

Keep reading

• Play online with friends
• Make a TCG with Claude