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Dekki

I’ve known Mike Sheetal for most of my life in Tokyo. One of the co-founders of the design/advertising agency UltraSuperNew, he switched gears a bit last year by founding a new game-oriented creative agency called Playbrain (bringing him back to his game dev roots). This week saw the launch of a new project by that agency, a game community site called Dekki. The site is still in its early stages, but is already home to a Hearthstone community, with more coming soon. They’re also producing two web shows on Twitch: Dekki World in Japanese and Dekki Does Japan in English.

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Magic 2015

I’ve enjoyed the Duels of the Planeswalkers games, and was looking forward to the new edition, but so far I’m just not really feeling it. I’ve been playing Magic on and off pretty much since the start, and do still play the physical game with friends. What I liked about the Duels games was the slick presentation and gameplay, and the fact that I could play on iPad. But I think Hearthstone has really shown that there are better ways to play card games digitally, and so coming back to this just doesn’t feel as fun. Also, all of the in-app purchases they’ve added makes it difficult to figure out what you really need to enjoy the base game, and that’s something I don’t like (and apparently, unlocking cards and decks is made more difficult, to encourage in-app purchases). I’ll probably play some more, and maybe even pay the $10 for the base game, but I’m more excited to play the upcoming Hearthstone expansion.

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Hearthstone

I wrote a post last year about how much I thought Hearthstone was a great digital card game, but I hadn’t really put that much time into it. I’d unlocked all of the classes, and then sort of drifted on to other things (there are just so many good card games coming out these days in digital form). Since the game went into open beta recently, there’s been a lot of talk about it again – including from a few of my friends – and so last night I decided to go in again and play for a bit. Wow, talk about getting sucked in again, I’ve been putting in WAY too much time since then, both in ranked online games, and in the Arena, which is Hearthstone’s take on a limited format. I am loving this game so much, and have currently settled into playing a Warrior deck I quite like – and it’s still just made up of basic cards, nothing too crazy, as I’ve only opened a couple of extra packs. This is really dangerous.

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Scrolls

Right now, if you own a copy of Scrolls you can gift a copy to someone (until January 31). Big thanks to the person who gifted me the game, as I’d been wanting to try it out since its launch. It’s by Mojang (Minecraft), and is at its base a collectible card game, but the combat is done on a battlefield, and so positioning of the creatures you summon is important. I’ve played a couple of matches so far, and so far I’m really digging it. Too early to say if I prefer this over Hearthstone, although I think they’re different enough that you can really enjoy each for different reasons. Great presentation too. Of course, since I don’t do much gaming on my Mac, it’s something I would much rather be out for iPad, but I still plan on playing more of it.

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Hearthstone

I never thought I’d get into this damn beta, but lo and behold, early last week I received my beta key, and so was able to give it a try. I was really excited to play this, and have to say that they’ve done a really fantastic job of creating a card game for the digital world – meaning, you’re not stuck with the issues affecting bringing Magic: The Gathering to digital, mostly when it comes to having to wait for another player to react to your plays. And it sure looks good, with really wonderful sound design too – I crack up every single time I hear “job’s done” at the end of a turn. I really can’t wait for the iPad version of this to come out though, because that’s how I really want to play this game.