Built in public.

TCGON is a personal project. It began as a simulator for a single title, then was redesigned into a common game engine with the title-specific implementation stripped out. This page records that broad arc.

Timeline

1. Card Game Simulatordone

   Started out as a card game simulator for a specific title.

2. Generic Game Enginedone

   Stripped out the title-specific code and redesigned it as a common engine.

3. Data-driven Rulesdone

   Moved to defining boards, zones, phases and rules as data.

4. TCGON Builderin progress

   Building out the environment for authoring game data.

5. AI Playerin progress

   Verifying an AI that selects from the actions the engine offers.

6. AI vs AIin progress

   Developing AI-vs-AI self-play through the same command pipeline.

7. Multi-TCG Experimentsin progress

   Testing compatibility of TCGs with different rule systems on one engine.

Development log