What’s Wrong with Digital Collectible Card Games? Hearthstone-like Games| Game Design Thinking

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In the last few years, many games inspired in Hearthstone have been launched. This has created a series of Hearthstone-like games, games that share most of the core gameplay loop with the Blizzard game. This has created a sense of exasperation on players, who are looking for the next revolution in Digital CCG.

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00:00 – Intro
01:14 – CCG Brief History
01:51 – The Beginnings of the Digital CCG
02:34 – Hearthstone Brief History
03:20 – Hearthstone’s Core Gameplay Loop
05:04 – Hearthstone’s Cards
06:38 – Causa
07:19 – Kards
08:19 – Gwent
09:09 – What now?
11:07 – Outro