Everything on the Decklab blog tagged “industry”: practical advice on making your own card game.
Art, mechanics and rulebooks used to need three separate tools, and often three people. Here's why one project that holds all three is replacing that fragmented stack, and what it means for solo creators.
The creators moving fastest aren't making better-looking cards first. They're building better systems. Here's why reusable templates for factions, classes and item types are the real advantage, and how to build them.
AI-assisted prototyping isn't handing off your creativity. Used well, it closes the gap between a rough idea and a testable first draft, and leaves every real decision with you. Here's the practical case, and a five-step workflow.
· 5 min read
Layout, formatting and first drafts no longer have to take days. What really changes when the production work shrinks, what stays exactly as hard as before, and how to set up a workflow that tests in hours.
· 4 min read
Most card games don't stall for lack of ideas. They stall because the workflow is too slow and too manual to keep momentum. Here's what the 2019 process looked like, and what a 2026 one should do instead.
· 5 min read
