card-game
Build a card game: card data, deck/hand/discard zones, draw/shuffle/reshuffle, a turn structure, costs, and effect resolution. Use for a deckbuilder, TCG/CCG, or roguelike deckbuilder.
npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill card-game --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Card Game A playbook for card games — card data, the deck/hand/discard zones, the turn structure, and how card effects resolve. This is a **compositional** skill: it models cards as data and wires them to UI. It does not re-teach data assets or UI nodes; it defines the zone model, the draw machinery, and the effect-resolution rules that keep a card game correct and bug-free. ## When to use - Use when building any game where the core objects are **cards** moving between zones (deck → hand → play → discard): deckbuilder, TCG/CCG, solitaire, roguelike deckbuilder. - Use when designing draw/shuffle/reshuffle, turn structure, card costs, or how effects resolve. **When *not* to use:** board/tile state with matching rules → `puzzle`. RPG with an incidental card battler → start from `rpg`. For defining cards as assets, use `godot-resources` / `unity-scriptableobjects`; for the hand/drag UI, use `godot-ui-control`. ## Core loop **Draw to your hand → spend resources to play cards → effects resolve and change the board → end the turn (cleanup/discard) → opponent/next phase → repeat until a win condition.** Depth comes from the *combinations* a hand allows; the engine's job is to resolve the
- When to use
- Core loop
- Must-have systems
- Design knobs
- Patterns
- 1. Zones + draw with automatic reshuffle
- 2. Card as data + effect resolution
- 3. Turn structure as a phase machine
- Pitfalls / failure modes
- Composition (build it from these skills)
- References
What does the card-game skill do?
Build a card game: card data, deck/hand/discard zones, draw/shuffle/reshuffle, a turn structure, costs, and effect resolution. Use for a deckbuilder, TCG/CCG, or roguelike deckbuilder.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills --skill card-game --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From gamedev-skills/awesome-gamedev-agent-skills, a repository with 406 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.