Card Engine

Unleash your creativity and bring your card game vision to fruition with Card Engine.

KEY FEATURES

• Design: The intuitive editor interface prioritizes user-friendliness, allowing you to start designing your first card in seconds.

• Asset Browser: A collection of assets included - start prototyping immediately!

  

• Collection: Organize and manage your decks and cards with drag-and-drop functionality.

• Templates: Create templates to speed up the card creation process. Changes made on a Template can be applied to all cards that derive from the template.

• Importer: Import your own images and fonts by simply dragging and dropping files into the asset browser, or through the native OS file browser.

• Exporter: Export your cards as PNG, JPG, PDF or raw XML card data files with flexible settings and a real-time file preview. Cards automatically flow across pages (images) based on size and spacing. Choose from US or ISO paper standards for print, or export individual images with ease.

And even more!

• Project-based workflow: Create unique projects for various game ideas.
• Flexible card size: Configure a custom card size for your project, or pick from common card standards.
• Trash bin: Recently deleted cards can be recovered.
• CSV: Export a CSV file of your project, then make mass changes by editing and re-importing it. This can be used in conjunction with the Template system to produce new cards as well.
• Examples: Import pre-made template cards made from the built in assets to quickly get you started.
• Text icons: Insert icons into the text. Imported images can be added to the text icon widget.
• Variables: Create custom keys that formats to a custom value. E.g. {mana_legendary} as the key and 8 as the value that it will format to when rendered on a card. Variables supports text icons.
• Online Documentation: Get started guides, feature overviews, tips & tricks.
• Discord community: Join the growing Discord community for both official and community support.
• Accessible data: The save data format is based on XML files, and they are fully editable.

Card Engine is a project by a solo developer. You can reach out to me and share your opinions, ideas, and criticisms - I listen to your feedback.