Mercante di miracoli

Day 15: Miracle Merchant Platform: Android This is a rather unique card-based game where you are a potion merchant and have to make your customers' orders using four cards from your deck. You start with one card from each of four stacks flipped over, each stack containing a different color/element from the rest. Your customers have a main element request, and a secondary, which is optional, but the main one is mandatory to include. Each card has a symbol of an element that will give you bonus points if you place the two cards side by side on the particular side the extra symbol is on. The goal is to make all your customers' potions while getting a score of at least 1 on each one until your deck runs out. That sounds simple enough, but there are also "evil" cards mixed in which will take points away, but some of the other cards have those as their extra symbol, so you can get points back that way. There's also bonus points if you place two of the same element side by side, and that bonus stacks with the extra symbol bonus.

Arnold Rauers的遊戲創新之路可以說是以卡牌為媒介，不斷融合其他的玩法。不同於很多獨立遊戲創作者類型+類型這樣簡單粗暴的縫合，Arnold Rauers能夠將玩法類型拆解成最基本的行動機制，在機制層面做出創新，從而開創新的遊戲品類。 同時Arnold Rauers還具有相當深厚的卡牌設計功力，即使拋開玩法，只靠卡牌設計本身，也能展示出足夠的策略空間。已有的8款手遊是對他過去摸索卡牌玩法創新的總結，可以想見在未來他還會有更具突破性同時在商業層面上也更加成熟的作品問世。