The DragonCon 2013 HexTCG PVE Design panel featured Cory Jones (President & CCO, Cryptozoic), Chris Woods (Magical Creature, Cryptozoic), and Ben Stoll (Game Designer, Cryptozoic). I’ve posted the audio from the panel to SoundCloud. You’ll find quite a few PVE card spoilers (dungeon [Arena of Souls, Information Control] and raid [Vengeful Figment, Ruby Golem, Voodoo Doll, Gront's Favorite Pet]), a walkthrough of the plans for the “Junkyard Dog” dungeon, information about “Pudgington Hallow”, a spirited Q&A session, and much more!
You can also see all of the slides (thanks, Cory!) Chris talked to in the slideshow above this blog entry – they are displayed in the correct order starting with the HexTCG Key Art slide and ending with the HexTCG logo. Notably, compared to the PVP panel slides these are much less easier to follow without the context of the panel audio. In a day or two I’ll upload a video to YouTube marrying the audio and the presentation to make it even easier to follow along.
Key Discussion Topics (thanks Shadowelf and Stok3d!)
- 0:01:50 Interface of PVE (Junkyard Dungeon)
- 0:06:45 Dungeon Rewards
- 0:07:05 PVE Set of Cards
- 0:10:05 PVE/PVP Format
- 0:10:48 Verdingo Hunt Dungeon
- 0:12:48 Dungeon That Feels Like Draft
- 0:13:18 Raids
- 0:13:48 10-11x Raids At This Point
- 0:15:25 Raid Rewards
- 0:16:30 72x Raid Rewards
- 0:17:30 Assigning Roles in Raids
- 0:18:00 Raids 3 Stage Format
- 0:19:50 Equipment System
- 0:21:50 Rarity of Equipment
- 0:22:47 Equipment Will be Affecting All Copies of a Card
- 0:23:02 Equipment Sets and Set Bonuses
- 0:26:10 Mercenaries and Champions
- 0:30:50 World’s Interface
- 0:33:00 Faction’s Interaction
- 0:34:10 Raid’s Rewards
- 0:35:28 Keeps
- 0:36:30 Can I Respec My Champion?
- 0:37:20 Daily Quests
- 0:39:15 Phantom Versions of Cards
- 0:40:11 Interaction Between Players in Raids
- 0:41:55 PVP/PVE Cards
- 0:42:25 Doubleback System
- 0:45:30 Dual-Specs
- 0:46:10 Griefers
- 0:48:45 AI-Reoccuring Villains
- 0:50:50 Can I Save and Name Decks?
- 0:51:20 PVE Expansion Policy
- 0:56:20 Sideboarding Between Dungeons/Raids
- 0:57:18 Economy
- 0:59:15 Does PVE Scale With Starters?
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