Hello everybody! This topic is for discussion of the "Expanding Horizons" Expansion Creation Competition. One of the awesome things about our Fan Creation Forum Competition is that it gets us all talking about what makes a card or a class balanced, fun, realistic, interesting, unique, innovative, exciting, and more. However, to make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?
Rules or Process. Do you have a question about the competition's process? Do you need clarification about one of the entry requirements? Are you not sure whether your entry adhered to the rules? Ask here!
Feedback or Ideas. Do you have some ideas you'd like to run by others before settling on one? Do you need help balancing or wording your idea? Do you need help finding art that will fit your cards? Or do you just want feedback from the community on your entry? You're in the right place! Remember, although you are allowed to make minor tweaks to your entry after you've submitted it, you're only allowed one submission per competition, so make sure that you've settled on your idea for sure beforehand.
Discussion! Do you have thoughts on other people's ideas? Are there directions you don't like that you're seeing too many people take? Or directions you'd like to see more people take? Would you like to help others and contribute to a greater community understanding of Hearthstone design and balance? This is where you want to be!
All of that said, please refrain from the following:
Posting TONS of Ideas. We understand that some of you might have a ton of potential ideas you'd like to share. However, this thread is going to become an absolute mess if everybody is posting a dozen different ideas. Please post not more than 3 distinct ideas at a time, to keep the thread generally orderly and legible.
Advertising Your Entry. Please don't pop in here just to advertise your entry only to never be heard from again. This includes only asking short, generic, or insincere questions like "Thoughts?" or "Do you think this is balanced?". Yes, getting feedback on your idea is one of the purposes of this topic, but we're not just here for other people to help you. We're here for you all to help each other. 12 hours after this competition begins, there should be plenty of other posts here for you to give specific feedback or for you to comment on a trend. If you post your ideas for feedback after this time and do not also offer some form of substantial commentary, critique, or praise of others' work, you may find your post deleted.
Plagiarism. Many people post their ideas here before finalizing them in the submission topic. Directly plagiarizing those ideas to post in the submission topic yourself is absolutely not acceptable.
So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!
Ooooooh i was hoping someday something like this would pop up! Very curious for all the entries!
Well i have this idea for a keyword from an expansion i already made any thoughts? It's supposed to be a slower expansion with some cards synergising with it and it could allow for some really cool things but i'm not sure if i want it to be my entry...
Woo, expansion contest! Wonder how many cards we'll be making. Will there be some of the challenges like Asylum had for his class contest last time? I'll start brainstorming!
Ooooooh i was hoping someday something like this would pop up! Very curious for all the entries!
Well i have this idea for a keyword from an expansion i already made any thoughts? It's supposed to be a slower expansion with some cards synergising with it and it could allow for some really cool things but i'm not sure if i want it to be my entry...
Good luck everyone!
Predict feels too close to Battlecry to me. It's just shorter than saying "Battlecry: At the start of your turn..." unless it's also on spells or something.
I wanted to make one about the holidays of warcraft. But the amount of art is extremely scarce.
(Unless i go for Deviantart artworks..... But that is a path i don't want to walk)
Edit: Nevermind, i read the submission thread. 84 cards in total it seems.
Yeah, the guys who were discussing it in the feedback thread hit a lot of the same points that we did - a full expansion is a hell of a lot of work, and involves not only a lot of personal commitment, but commitment to caring by the voters. On the other hand, just doing a few cards to get the idea isn't really fun for a big competition.
So we compromised. 7 class cards per class, and then 21 neutrals - split fairly arbitrarily but very roughly following the general ratio for rarity. More than half an expansion but not quite two thirds.
One thing to note is that since this is the first expansion competition, there won't be any huge restrictions - this is as new to us as it is to you, and we want a baseline to work from, see what can be improved, where we can implement fun challenges in a future one, if people even like the idea. The only real restriction is rarity, which would prevent you from doing something like Un'goro, for example, where each class had two legendaries.
Would I be able to compete with an expansion I currently have in progress (it only has about 25 or so cards in it)?
Of course! Have you already started posting it on here? If so, then we'd just lock the post until after you either win or are eliminated, so as to not garner any free advertising advantage.
These are a few sample cards for my expansion, which is gonna be taking place in Zangarmarsh. The idea is to make a whole enchanted mushroom forest sort of vibe, with emphasis on this spore mechanic which I made to fit flavor-wise with the whole "Swamp is full of living fungus creatures" thing. Anyways, this is just the discussion topic so none of this stuff is final yet. I would love some constructive feedback though :)
Would I be able to compete with an expansion I currently have in progress (it only has about 25 or so cards in it)?
Of course! Have you already started posting it on here? If so, then we'd just lock the post until after you either win or are eliminated, so as to not garner any free advertising advantage.
@ihascorm Maybe you should choose something different than a forest, if your decide to go with that idea, the un'goro vibes are still to strong and that cards feel like a part of it, since we have Sherazin and company.
This is very exciting!!! This'll be my first time participating in one of this big competitions.
My first instinct is to do a Winterspring expansion featuring my keyword from my Warden Class... that would be ok, right mods? I'll likely go down that path if I don't think of something else xD
As it doesn't say it in the rules (right now) i'll just ask here. It was a big discussion at the season 5 finale poll about making the expansion in co-operation with someone. If it would to be allowed, would both authors get the same price of Card Design Grand Champion?
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This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.
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Hello everybody! This topic is for discussion of the "Expanding Horizons" Expansion Creation Competition. One of the awesome things about our Fan Creation Forum Competition is that it gets us all talking about what makes a card or a class balanced, fun, realistic, interesting, unique, innovative, exciting, and more. However, to make sure that everything runs smoothly, we need to reserve the Submission Topic for submissions only. Everything else goes here. What is everything else, you might ask?
All of that said, please refrain from the following:
So, without further ado, have fun and get creating!
Ooooooh i was hoping someday something like this would pop up! Very curious for all the entries!
Well i have this idea for a keyword from an expansion i already made any thoughts? It's supposed to be a slower expansion with some cards synergising with it and it could allow for some really cool things but i'm not sure if i want it to be my entry...
(This also implies for Battlecries)
Good luck everyone!
Currently working on the Tinker! K&C and WW / JUG and KotFT / Classic / Basic / Introduction
My Previous Classes: Apothecary (unfinished) / Chronomancer / Death Knight (old)
My Previous Expansions: Hallow's End
Oh my God, this is actually happening.
Custom cards :
CLASSES : Alchemist (CCC#5 | Phase V) | Chef (CCC#4)
EXPANSIONS : Year of the Scorpion (Year Comp)
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Around how many cards will we do in total?
I wanted to make one about the holidays of warcraft. But the amount of art is extremely scarce.
(Unless i go for Deviantart artworks..... But that is a path i don't want to walk)
Edit: Nevermind, i read the submission thread. 84 cards in total it seems.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
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Would I be able to compete with an expansion I currently have in progress (it only has about 25 or so cards in it)?
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
You can find me here! Good luck everyone!
Alright, I remember setting up an expansion before, I might modify it though, since I don't like so many of class cards, but I got my ideas!
Just a question tough, are we able to use Quests AND make a Legendary? LIke Un'Goro? Or that will be set up apart?
The joke is you.
"Furthermore, the winning contestant will have a Season 4 competition themed around their winning expansion!"
You mean season 6 right?
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OwO this is sooo cool.
not sure if I'll have time to participate, though...
Why Rogue is my favourite class:
My submission for this week's card design competition.
These are a few sample cards for my expansion, which is gonna be taking place in Zangarmarsh. The idea is to make a whole enchanted mushroom forest sort of vibe, with emphasis on this spore mechanic which I made to fit flavor-wise with the whole "Swamp is full of living fungus creatures" thing. Anyways, this is just the discussion topic so none of this stuff is final yet. I would love some constructive feedback though :)
bepisClick the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
@ihascorm Maybe you should choose something different than a forest, if your decide to go with that idea, the un'goro vibes are still to strong and that cards feel like a part of it, since we have Sherazin and company.
This is very exciting!!! This'll be my first time participating in one of this big competitions.
My first instinct is to do a Winterspring expansion featuring my keyword from my Warden Class... that would be ok, right mods? I'll likely go down that path if I don't think of something else xD
"The Slayer" custom class
"The Great Thaw" expansion competition finalist
As it doesn't say it in the rules (right now) i'll just ask here. It was a big discussion at the season 5 finale poll about making the expansion in co-operation with someone. If it would to be allowed, would both authors get the same price of Card Design Grand Champion?
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