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I'm pretty sure the intersection of the sets "people interested in Fire Emblem meta" and "people interested in Magic: the Gathering color types" is like, me and me alone, but OH WELL posting this anyway.

Partially inspired by

professor_tammi's affection for MBTI typing of FE characters, I decided to figure out what colors a whole bunch of FE characters would be if they were placed in Magic: the Gathering.

( What the colors mean, for those unfamiliar with Magic. )

And now, for the breakdown. I put a "?" next to characters I felt uncertain about.

( Monocolors )
( Allied colors )
( Enemy colors )
( Characters I wanted to place but had trouble with )

Crossposts: http://queenlua.livejournal.com/23724.html

So I started playing Gungnir, at

amielleon and

intaglionyx's urging, and it got me thinking about game design in general—in particular, it reminded me of this column by the head designer of Magic: the Gathering.

I think the column's reasonably comprehensible even for those without a M:tG background, but the main points I want to talk about here are the different types of game complexity he describes:

( Read more... )

As an aside: having played with Gungnir's beat/team attack system, I'm now quite excited to see what FE13's team attack system will be like—when I first saw it, my knee-jerk reaction was "that looks gimmicky and silly," but the way Gungnir's implemented it is really quite fun, and I'm hoping FE13 can accomplish something similar.

As another aside, that columnist has written a lot about game design, and though most of it's focused on M:tG, he'll occasionally talk about design issues in the general case, and they're well worth reading—I could probably dig up some specific columns as recommended reading, if you happen to be interested.

Crossposts: http://queenlua.livejournal.com/19274.html

So I can read tarot, sort of. I mostly do it as an amusing party trick, but years of playing Magic: the Gathering has made me super-fond of anything involving cards, pretty art, collecting, and shuffling things, so I inevitably got the idea: why not use Magic: the Gathering cards for a tarot deck?

So that just happened, because clearly I have nothing better to do with my Sunday.

More info, for anyone who's interested (warning: giant walls of text ahead):

( How tarot works. )

( Design choices for this deck. )

( Selections for major & minor arcana. )

( Pictures of the major arcana (i.e. pretty pictures! click here!). )

Halfway through making this deck I started wondering what a Fire Emblem tarot would look like (mostly because Sanaki would be a rockin' tarot Empress), but that's for someone else to tackle :P

Also, turns out the artist for my favorite tarot deck actually did some art for Magic: the Gathering. Small world.

Crossposts: http://queenlua.livejournal.com/12520.html

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