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!
Just a note, the submission topic link takes you to the staff work area which almost none of us will be able to go to. Also, I think the actual submission topic still has the formatting on Phase II written on it.
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Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Just a note, the submission topic link takes you to the staff work area which almost none of us will be able to go to. Also, I think the actual submission topic still has the formatting on Phase II written on it.
That doesn't make sense, the topic is showing up for me as being part of the Fan Creations area... I'll triple check though
Edit: Apologies, the system was changed so that the link auto-redirects. Anyone who wasn't staff got blocked, while I saw everything as being fine. Should be fixed now.
Didn't get through by a long shot, however i want to wish the best of luck to the people who did and i'm very exited to see some of these expansions progress. There are just so many good ones and i think in this phase anything could happen really. Good luck everyone!
Only 4 cards as a showcase for 3 classes? Please make this six. Two per class. Having only 1 for a class is just not enough to show your set...
Great idea, Shadows and I agree with you, it's been changed to 6.
Yay, glad that was changed. This'll make it easier to show off class themes. Congrats to everyone who made it through! Now I need to catch up to some of the front runners and make those class cards. I'm thinking doing Rogue, Hunter, and maybe Priest first.
Can I drop out to give my spot to someone else? I had 9 votes while the majority of people behind me had 8, except that I postead early as 2nd entry and the others days or weeks later, so I don't feel like I earned the spot which sours the experience.
Can I drop out to give my spot to someone else? I had 9 votes while the majority of people behind me had 8, except that I postead early as 2nd entry and the others days or weeks later, so I don't feel like I earned the spot which sours the experience.
All the ones with 8 votes also made it through.
And posting early also proves a disadvantage. You have less time looking at your cards, making it harder in the later stages, since people will review your entire set.
Don't feel too bad about it. I personally think your expansion deserved to advance.
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I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
But on to the actual class discussions, my three most complete classes are Priest, Rogue and Mage, in that order. So which two cards per class should I go with? I thought of having one Void Orb card and one non-Void Orb card for each class.
Priest:
(still need a character for the Legendary)
Rogue:
(currently have the name "Flying Daggers" planned for the ??? spell. Shoutout to Cogito for the name)
(I need to keep making the set in case you can't tell)
Mage: (don't worry, they don't have any random card generation except for the Legendary)
(Arithela is supposed to say "AT LEAST 10 unique spells".
Looks like I missed the cutoff. I can't say I'm surprised though since my expansion wasn't really presenting anything flashy or unique. Congrats to those who made it though, wish you guys the best of luck.
Who's to say I can't still critique, review, and discuss? (Unless that's actually in the official rules, in which case, I'll just show myself out)
Congratulations to our Top 20; it was an honour to be in the Top 40, myself, but you all deserved this. I'll still pop in to offer my (limited) perspective on the class cards (and will probably still continue work on my own expansion, just in its own thread outside of any competition).
This is the Discussion Topic. The Submission Topic is here.
(Please read the Submission Topic first.)
The people moving on to Phase III are...
Wild Card. CecilHoshino
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!
Just a note, the submission topic link takes you to the staff work area which almost none of us will be able to go to. Also, I think the actual submission topic still has the formatting on Phase II written on it.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Didn't get through by a long shot, however i want to wish the best of luck to the people who did and i'm very exited to see some of these expansions progress. There are just so many good ones and i think in this phase anything could happen really. Good luck everyone!
I thought Shadows said it was 6 cards. . .
I have no idea of how to cut it down to 4 ;-;
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
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
YESSSSSS!!!! I MADE IT! CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE ELSE WHO MADE IT AS WELL!
[air horns][confetti]
Why Rogue is my favourite class:
My submission for this week's card design competition.
Can I drop out to give my spot to someone else? I had 9 votes while the majority of people behind me had 8, except that I postead early as 2nd entry and the others days or weeks later, so I don't feel like I earned the spot which sours the experience.
A toast to all that have made it through hard work during countless hours!
Edit: I recieved a PM that they don't like Queen. So here's an alternate song that encapsulates the same feeling.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
And R. I. P @CecilHoshino
Your reviews, dedication etc. will be missed.
I want a new title, but Flux won't let me have one,
But on to the actual class discussions, my three most complete classes are Priest, Rogue and Mage, in that order. So which two cards per class should I go with? I thought of having one Void Orb card and one non-Void Orb card for each class.
Priest:
(still need a character for the Legendary)
Rogue:
(currently have the name "Flying Daggers" planned for the ??? spell. Shoutout to Cogito for the name)
(I need to keep making the set in case you can't tell)
Mage: (don't worry, they don't have any random card generation except for the Legendary)
(Arithela is supposed to say "AT LEAST 10 unique spells".
Arithela Hero:
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Looks like I missed the cutoff. I can't say I'm surprised though since my expansion wasn't really presenting anything flashy or unique. Congrats to those who made it though, wish you guys the best of luck.
Who's to say I can't still critique, review, and discuss? (Unless that's actually in the official rules, in which case, I'll just show myself out)
Congratulations to our Top 20; it was an honour to be in the Top 40, myself, but you all deserved this. I'll still pop in to offer my (limited) perspective on the class cards (and will probably still continue work on my own expansion, just in its own thread outside of any competition).
@Demonxz95
Uh, what's with the Arabic script?
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.
Click the image to go to my custom Time Traveler class.