Shonen Showdown TCG

Project

Being an avid board game player and collector of cards I decided to pursue making a trading card game of my own. The original goal was to utilize characters of existing IP owned by a Shonen Jump to pitch as a new game idea for them as well as satisfy my anime geek side.

Disclaimer: The characters and properties depicted are not mine.

Work

The game was solo designed from scratch and a full rules sheet was generated and tested. I designed the entire set before pitching as a proof of concept and play tested the game with a small group for feedback and rules clarity. Roughly 70% of the designs have been created with actual card art like the images here while the full 162 card set is in an excel sheet. I designed the card frames and templates used to create the cards as well.

Result

I am incredibly happy with how the project turned out and learned a lot from the experience in game design and balancing. The unfortunate side of this story is while pitched they liked the idea but had a fear of utilizing to many IP in a single game to get the agreement licenses and splitting the revenues. I fully knew starting the project that the reality of it getting released was slim, but it was a lesson filled passion project.