Mixbots - Mix. Build. Battle

I'm really curious as to what the reception on this game is and how far into production this game is.

I mean...mix is cool...build is ok...battle seems kinda weak. It's a glorified Rock-Paper-Scissors.

Personally, I'm not interested, but maybe there's an audience for this.

Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game mechanic that's prevalent in many games, however it's always an evolution of it rather than using the straight RPS game AS a combat mechanic. Take Pokemon for example. Water is stronger than fire, but it is very possible for a fire Pokemon to overtake a water Pokemon (if fire is a higher level, of course). The problem is that the result is absolute. If you put out the wrong thing (i.e. paper to scissors), then there's NO way to come back from it...and that can be discouraging if the player just has bad luck.

Aside from "reading" your opponent, using RPS as combat might as well be luck; the player has no real control over the battle.

Also, I'm not too keen on clips on cards. It just screams wear and tear (even from its first use) and it's not guaranteed that every clip would stick well to the cards.

I think making the battle better would require a total overhaul of the game. I mean, the stickers are cool, but they don't seem to add anything to the game...WHY, besides looks do you want a certain type of arms? Do certain legs allow you to go faster? If I'm not mistaken, the stickers should correspond to the abilities.

Aside from ElKobold's responses, I think that a lot of work was put into this project, however, I'm inclined to think that more thought was put into the backstory and production of the video rather than the game itself (half the video is story). The board game industry is truly an industry now. In order to sell your game (for profit) you need to present something that feels different than anything else out there. Yes, some of your ideas are "cool", but I'm telling you that combat system is boring, if you ask me.

My advice would be to research other games out there. Yomi (http://sirlingames.com/yomi/) is a great example of a card game that uses Rock-Paper-Scissors in a creative way and they managed to have decks that are no more than a standard deck of cards (54, I think with "jokers"). Shift (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/laboratory/shift-the-single-card-ccg) is another game that's creative...it touts itself as a "single card CCG" and is pretty creative for a combat game.

I applaud you wanting to use as few components as possible as many game designers don't think about component quantity as a big part of the game; they just seem to have counters for everything.

Anyways, good luck.

You should highly consider utilizing color in your game as, to me, is a design element that provides so much but is totally underutilized.

I wouldn't even touch anything that can cause damage to the card. Consider Pokemon TCG win conditions...each player has 6 cards they place on the side and, as they defeat pokemon, take their "prize" cards. Or even look at BushiRoad's Cardfight Vanguard...every time the player takes damage, they place a card into a damage area (which can also be used to power certain abilities)...6 "damage" and they lose the game.

There's many ways to count damage without having to resort to marking a card.

Again, I say research what's out there. Don't just look at TCG's, Look at Living Card Games, party card games, non-collectible card games, etc. There's so many great ideas out there.

Yep, the new one is better, I think.