Card Game

Spring 2024

After playing a multitude of card games such as Marvel Snap, Animation Throwdown, and Inscription, I was inspired to create a card game of my own in Java to test balance mechanics as well as strategic placement of cards. I incorporate java concepts such as constructors, array lists, 2-dimensional arrays, for-loops, exception handling, and GUIs.

Animals are used to represent the cards, and every animal has attack points, health points, and a cost to play

Each player has a deck of cards and at the start of the game, 5 cards are randomly drawn and placed in the player's hand. After each turn a new card is drawn.

There are four locations that players can play cards. Players can only play cards at locations that are open

After each player plays their card, cards on the board attack cards opposite of it.

After, cards with 0 or less health are destroyed, and damage done to any empty locations

deplete the opposing player's hit points

When a player's HP becomes equal to or less than 0, the game ends and the opposing player wins