Card Studio

Here ye! Our second update this month isn’t to the core game, but rather a tool I set our apprentice candidates on: the Card Studio.

The Card Studio is a development tool that’ll help us more easily import new card decks for the game and test their behavior. For example, the current version is helping us to test visual effects (VFX) – as we develop a new effect, we can run it through the studio to check that it works and to preview what it looks like.

While playing a round of Spades, many things impact how the game reacts to your moves. If your team is losing a round and you play the highest card, the card will behave accordingly. Similarly, if you play poorly …well, the card will feel a way about that too lol :)

These interactions with the cards can get a little bit complex – and we hope the Card Studio will be a tool help us test out those complexities quick and easily. Right now there’s just a couple of effects available, but expect to see more added each week! From there you’ll start to see these features graduate into the main game.