Dark's comments on Magic and CCG's brought up this as a possible departure point as well:
Again, while it's not an RPG, Dominion is a deck building concept that could be adapted fairly easily to an IOS environment and would lend itself to a multi-player or versus the computer style game. You'd have to develop your own knock off using similar concepts, or else, get licensing privileges from the parent company. I suspect this latter would be difficult as they have taken action against several game developers that released versions of their game. In Dominion, you have three types of cards: money, victory points, and action cards. You begin play with 7 coin cards and three victory points. you draw 5 cards at a time, and have three phases, an action phase, a buy phase, and a clean up phase. During the action phase, you may play any action cards you have, during the buy phase you may buy cards from the supply, and in the clean up phase you clear your play area and discard all played cards and all cards in your hand preparatory to drawing your next hand. In Dominion, there's always ten stacks of cards in the supply that are random actions or treasures, and a series of coin or treasure cards and victory points that are always present. Victory conditions vary, but generally if you exhaust three piles of cards in the supply, or buy all of the primary victory point cards, the game ends. The person with the most victory points in their hand at the end of the game wins the game. It's a very fast, very fun, and very neat game as in the original set of Dominion there's I believe 25 or 30 action cards to choose from. Each game is completely different because of the random factor of getting different combinations of actions, and what those actions do. Some give you more actions in your action phase, some give you more coins, some allow you to draw more cards, some allow you to force other players to discard, etc. It's a style of game that hasn't been tackled by any accessible game developer that I am aware of. Take care, Jeremy -- In the fight between you and the world--back the world! Frank Zapa --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.