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Current activities

New in february 2024: Jim had a great idea of a rule change to further improve the game which is currently being playtested: Before assigning station damage the defending player may discard card(s) from the hand to prevent one damage for each card. This means that the cards in hand is also considered part of the station, for example some kind of mini shields. The last station row is more important, the rule about not able to win first turn can be removed, missiles are futher nerfed, milling strats are buffed, the game taking more turns in a competetive level, less luck, new dimension of tactic, new strategy and so forth.

• Adding the FINAL cards of The United Stars to the online game.
• Only 9 tickets missing to complete the online game before next step can be taken.
• Bad news in July 2022: my developer disappeared :(

Bad news: I worked on my extra time for around 3 years on creating this game spending more than 1000 hours and more than $40K of my personal money. There are 9 tickets remaining before the online game can be launched for real with deck building and competitive play. I no longer have any developer that can help me and I can no longer alone sink any more time or money on this game. I am looking for a partner such as a publisher or investor that is interested in the game which can help me take the next steps, contact me. The Space War is a really fantastic card game but doing all myself is an uphill battle and life is too short, I have a wife and 3 children as well which I value more than this game.

To do later

• Making the online game work better on mobile phones.
• Fixing bugs in the online version.
• Sound effects and new background music for the online game.
• Better in game tutorial.
• Enabling constructed play online.
• Launch kickstarter.
• Printing of physical cards.

Completed

• New round of playtesting constructed play offline a number of times and making some cards more clear and more easy to understand. Also balancing some cards. (March 2023).
• Playtesting constructed play offline (2022).
• Faction logos (November 2021).
• New pages: Weekly Offer, Popular Cards, Your Online Cards, Affiliate (September 2021).
• The first tournament held in Bolivia, see Tournaments page (September 2021).
• Printing more than 1500 playtest cards for playtesting (September 2021).
• First Edition Cards as NFTs (April-August 2021)
• Onboarding new js developers to work on the online game (May-June 2021).
• Some smaller promotions to get external testers of the online version (May 2021).
• New article from Jim: Creating The Space War - The Card Game of My Dreams (May 2021)
• Adding changelog to all the cards and making final(?) revisions to some cards (March 2021).
• Adding pages to the website for all the cards of The Swarm and the The United Stars decks (March 2021).
• Jim is learning basic video editing (January 2021).
• 2 new commanders: Liana Henders and Zyre (January 2021).
• Creating deck building functionality on the website (December 2020).
• Playtesting of The Swarm cards and the The United Stars cards.
• Making the AI bot more intelligent (October-November 2020)
• Making the online game work on tablets and smaller desktop screens.
• Illustrations for The Swarm cards (August 2020)
• In general making it easier for new players to learn to play.
• The cards of The Swarm added to the online game.
• Commander cards for both the The Swarm and the The United Stars deck (July 2020).
• Find new Node.js developers to takeover the development of the online version (June 2020)
• Illustrations for The United Stars cards (April 2020)
• Videos for online play, embed on the website
• Integrations of the rating and account system for the online version (April 2020)
• Videos for physical play, embed on the website
• Creating the list of cards for The United Stars deck (February - April 2020).
• New website with account registration (December 2019).
• Creating the list of cards for The Swarm deck (September 2019).
• Rating system for online play (July 2019)
• The Terrans deck cards and Game rules has been tested and revised until satisfaction (100+ plays, July-October 2018)
• Commander cards for the The Terrans deck (June 2019).
• Custom card generator script completed (December 2018)
• Illustrations for the The Terrans deck cards (August-September 2018)
• Card template design (December 2018)
• Game Rules (July-October 2018)

Current playtesting questions

• Is Commander Staux too good together with Time Warp?
• Is the Deploy Starship too good together with Drones when playing constructed?