

The setup will put 4 objectives in your hand.This will check if your version is up to date, show you the Message of the Day, and also give you some Tips on playing the game. First thing you do after you load a deck is Setup (Ctrl+Shift+S).Things should be fairly intuitive but keep in mind these basic things in relation to the OCTGN engine plugin. Leave the two-sided checkbox checked and once the game is started, load your starter decks. Once you find someone, one of you hosts and game and the other joins. If nobody does, host your own and put in the title that you’re a new player. You can go to the Host/Join tab to see if anyone has a game waiting.

Once everything is set up, you need to find someone to play with. Please follow the step-by-step installation instructions for Star Wars: The Card Game there. So for anyone interested in trying it out, you can now use my polished OCTGN plugin to do so.ĮDIT : I’ve moved the installation instructions on to the dedicated page for this game definition. Even though I seem to completely suck at it (I’ve won 2 games only), it does show a lot of promise. It may not be as deep or thematic as Android:Netrunner, but it has a lot of tough decisions to make and it’s the kind of game that you canot not see its depth of strategy from reading the rulebook and the spoilers, but rather you need to actually get down to the table and get your hands dirty. I’ve played a dozen games or so by now, and I’m quite liking it. I won’t go into much detail here as I’m sure you can find a lot of reviews online if you happen to need them. Most of the differentiation happens in the kind of effects each Affiliation focuses on, much like the colours of Magic:The Gathering. The game has only gone out to stores this week if I am not mistaken so it’s brand new.Īs a game, it is a somewhat asymmetric game, where each side (Light or Dark) has slightly different victory conditions, albeit their core gameplay does not differ all that much. So, Star Wars: The Card Game, is a “Living Card Game” release, much like Android:Netrunner or Warhamer:Invasion and it’s obvious on which theme it’s based on. So it’s now time to share the news and help people get started in the usual way. This is the initial release of this app, and I expect that it may break when makes changes to their web site.For the last month or so, I’ve been feverishly working on a OCTGN Plugin for Star Wars: The Card Game, by Fantasy Flight Games and I’ve finally released a polished version that I’m comfortable sharing with the world. If you see proxy card images that means you don't have the real image for the card. If you have no images available for a particular card, it will use whatever one it happens to find first in all the sets, and OCTGN will automatically generate a proxy card image for it. It will prefer to use cards that have an image available in OCTGN. NOTE: When exporting a deck, often there will be cards that are part of several different Magic sets. Click "Refresh Cards" on the selected deck (assuming the deck is already selected that you just updated in deckbox). If you are actively tweaking a deck during playtesting, you may leave, this app, and OCTGN running at the same time.Ģ. Click Export, navigate to where you save your OCTGN decks, and save it.

Select a deck from the decklist - the cards will be listed on the right.Ĩ.
#OCTGN MTG CARD IMAGES PASSWORD#
Enter your user name (no password is needed since this app only reads data that is publicly available).ħ. Specify the root OCTGN folder (use the Browse button to make it easier).Ħ. This creates a bunch of card sets without images.ĥ. Now I can build the deck in one place - and quickly export it to OCTGN using this app.ġ. I like using OCTGN to play test decks with my friend over the internet. I like using to manage my Magic card collection, and I like the deck builder that is built in because it allows me to see what cards I own and what cards I still need for a deck I'm building. This is from the included ReadMe.txt, just in case you want to know more about it before downloading:ĭeckbox to OCTGN is a little application I made so that I wouldn't have to keep creating Magic decks in both places. Hey all, I created a little app to export decks from Deckbox so that you can use them in OCTGN.
