Power Rangers Super Legend Virtual Card Game

[Silvertooth]

Hey everyone! Been fairly quiet for a while, but wanted to let people know about something I've been working on. I wasn't sure which section this would go, so here goes:

I've been working on translating Bandai's Rangers Strike game, as well as it's current incarnation, Cross Gather, and decided to use my work to adapt it into a Power Rangers variant, playable through the OCTGN gaming platform. I got the idea after seeing that the actual Power Rangers CCG, which used some of Ranger Strike's art, was basically a glorified paper-rock-scissors.

Got the first set compiled and the rules adapted, and am looking for people to check it out and give it a test drive. Also, I'm naturally wanting help checking for bugs and glitches that might make the game broken, and tips on how to make it more interesting.

So, feel free to check out the game at blog, Frontier Justice, at the link before, and download it. Look it over and let me know how it looks so far, and what kind of fixes it might need. Thanks in advance!

 

[MetalSymphony]

Sounds like something i'd love to help out on!
Count me in!

 

[Silvertooth]

Cool beans!

Are you familiar with how the OCTGN platform works? You basically have to load the game definition into the thing, then the sets into the game. There's a lot of fan-compiled OCTGN available, including Magic and YGO and whatnot.

Eventually, I'm going to make a template for Magic Set Editor to make the cards look more like the Rangers Strike ones and less like MTG ones. Still, the "future-shift" backgrounds serve my purposes for now.

Anywho, feel free to download and look the stuff over, and if we get enough guinea pigs *cough* beta testers we can try some games.

 

[Silvertooth]

A bit of a self-bump here: Just finished the second expansion of the game "Roaring Thunder". The new set focuses on Jungle Fury, Lightspeed Rescue, and SPD. It also features an "original" series that plays into some of the plot of the Super Legend game. A evil time-manipulating alien has begin bending and merging worlds together as part of his master plan. This fusion of worlds results in villains joining forces, and heroes finding unlikely allies or even fighting each other.

It also results in things like Power Rangers: Thunder Force. In their timeline, after Rita Repulsa is defeated, Zordon's able to regain his physical form, the original five Rangers are rewarded and are assigned to the International Peace Conference (tm). This leaves Zordon and Alpha to form a new team of five when Lord Zedd arrives, and they bestow Rocky, Adam, Aisha, Kat and TJ with new Thunder Power. So, for those fans wishing for Dairanger outfits and material in their Power Rangers: How much would you like to bend space-time to do so?

The original teams that debuted in the first set also get new heroes and tricks to play with as well. So download and check out the latest cards, and let me know how things are looking. I'll be writing up a more solid introduction to the game's story pretty soon, hopefully.

 

[Gaijin Ronin]

I've been quiet for a real long time... somewhat due to trying to find and download and watch super sentai series, but mostly due to crashing computers (yes, plural) and forgetting a lot of my bookmarked sites.

I only recently stumbled onto Rangers Strike/XGather and I'd be more interested in trying that out than Power Rangers (the only thing I'm grateful to Power Rangers is that it made me interested in checking out the Super Sentai source material, which, imho, is like a zillion times better than Power Rangers could ever hope to be).

Anyways, I don't know how far you've gotten on making Rangers Strike templates you mentioned, but before I discovered your thread here I started doing just that: making templates with the intent on trying to figure out how to create a template set for MSE. I've got them all almost done except for that stuff at the bottom of the cards (the copyright, set/card number data etc), so if you're interested in checking them out, I would be willing to shoot them over to you.

Now, I just whipped this up with Photoshop, and not MSE, just to give you a peek at a Rangers Strike card I made, with the translation you provided on your Red Sheriff Frontier Rangers Strike translation site (awesome site, by the by, and I thank you very, very much for your efforts) just to give you an idea of what I've done with the good scans I have been able to find:



Oh and another thing as sort of an fyi kind of deal: I'm not sold on the fonts I used on this card either. I just got this computer a short while ago and I haven't gotten around to downloading/installing fonts as of yet...

 

[Silvertooth]

The thread lives!

I had done some initial work to do some coding for the MSE template, but required a lot more voodoo scripting skills that I'm able to manage. Glad yours is coming along, and its looking pretty good so far!

Super Legend is now up to Saga 4 now, featuring the current generation of Power Rangers of PR Samuai. #5 is actually coming up soon, and will debut various Kamen/Masked Rider characters along with more Ranger and Sentai goodness.

Glad you like my site, even though news of new Rangers Strike stuff's been slow lately.

 

[Gaijin Ronin]

Glad yours is coming along, and its looking pretty good so far!

Thank you!

Glad you like my site, even though news of new Rangers Strike stuff's been slow lately.

Well, I can only surmise that this might be due to the fact that they've now pretty much caught up to the currently airing Super Sentai and Kamen Rider shows, right? I definitely recall seeing some Gokaiger related cards, so maybe at the moment, there's just not enough stuff so that it'd be worthwhile to base a new set on.

Anyways, about making a template for MSE: I've been looking around for a template making tutorial but all I've been able to find is a small pdf, and then I read somewhere on the MSE sourceforge site that making a tutorial is, and I quote: impossible. On the other hand, on another page it is implied that a tutorial is forthcoming. Elsewhere, I read somebody suggesting to someone else to just try "trial and error", so I don't know. Since my master template I'm making is coming along so nicely, I might just stick with that for the moment. Plus, it should make editing the pix so that the art overlaps the card's borders like it does on various cards easier to do, and that is something I can not fathom how MSE would be able to emulate.

 

[Psychotime]

MSE templating is some difficult stuff, that's for sure. It takes ALOT of work to start completely from scratch.

That said, Gaijin Ronin's template looks really simple in comparison to most games.

I know the OP still uses this site, so I just thought I'd ask to see how his project is coming along. I'm doing something similar, albeit with an established game.

 

[FieryRed]

I can't help with the technical stuff, but as a former CCG player, I found card game based on Power Rangers or Super Sentai rather fascinating. I would be interested to see what the finished product would look like.

 

[Psychotime]

I know I'm sorta advertising myself here, but one issue I must admit I'm having when designing anything based on a Sentai for VS System is the fact that the combined mecha are trapped as 8 drops due to the conventions set by the game.

With that in mind, players might be disappointed to find out that most games between competent players can expect to end around turn 6 at best, and only occasionally at 7-8, unless you're running a stall deck that intentionally slows down the game like Galactus does (which tries to stall to turn 9 for an instant win), but that immediately traps the kind of themes any sentai based teams can cover, which is bad for design.

I can think of some ways to get around it, though.

Rider doesn't give these sorts of design challenges and are much more straightforward.