Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!,

Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Kardboard Kings on sale for 43% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely event page, and check out the sales! Maybe the game you’ve been waiting for is waiting for you here, with a crisp sale to match.
https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/sale/akuparagames8thanniversarysale

Also, to celebrate, we will be hosting a multi-hour stream with tons of activities, announcements, and more! Stream is starting at 11:45 PM PDT! We really hope to see you there - and here’s to another year of publishing your favorite indie games on the market
https://www.twitch.tv/akuparagames

- Riv otter

Hey card sharks,

We have released a patch for Kardboard Kings on Steam. This patch fixes some of the save issues that users have encountered and fixes a Card Game Island bug related to the legendary that reduces card powers.

-riv otter

Hey, Card Sharks

Card Game Island is now out!

Be on the lookout for plane tickets to Card Game Island on Harry’s computer in your shop! Every Monday, you’ll be offered the chance to fly out to Card Game Island and test your mettle against the best duelists in the world, most of whom you’ve met in Parakeet Bay! Harness the power of the legendary cards, make smart additions to your random deck, and beat the devious final boss to claim the title of World Champion of Warlock!

If you are looking for a challenge, then King of Games mode is for you! Kardboard Kings’ hard mode, King of Games adds different scenarios like weekly taxes, more punishing price fluctuations and a drain on reputation over time. After each day, you will be graded on how well you sold cards, gained reputation, filled requests and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0XZE8_n688

May the cards be in your favor.

-[AG] Riv Otter

Hey, card sharks!

If you watched the MIX Next showcase a few weeks ago, you would have seen the trailer that the next free major update, Card Game Island, will be available on December 8th! If you missed the trailer, you can view it here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CRCtKyJJc

Two big changes coming with the update! First, Card Game Island allows you to actually try your hand at Warlock in an endgame, single player card battler. Second, King of Games mode enables the most punishing version of Kardboard Kings’ difficulty yet!! Let’s get into some details, shall we?

The fabled home of the best Warlock players in the world, Card Game Island is where the best of the best duke it out in some of Warlock’s most important duels. To get there, you can join by buying an airplane ticket at the shop on Mondays. When you buy your ticket and end the day, you’ll be taken to Card Game Island, instead of the next day in the store.

Once at Card Game Island, you’ll have the opportunity to play the game of Warlock. Starting with a random deck, you’ll be able to add or remove cards after each match at set points on the map! As you move through the map, you’ll have the choice to visit shops or start battles and you’ll have a little bit of information about the state of the battle when you arrive. Every battle includes a passive effect strengthening certain types of cards.
Each battle both you and your opponent start by drawing five cards. Warlock is set up in two basic phases, the main phase where you can play your cards, and the battle phase where you attack your opponents creatures.

On your turn, you’ll first have the option to play your cards in the creature zone or support zone. The cards you play in the creature zone are face up and the main cards to attack your opponent. The cards in the support zone are played face down and support the creatures in the creature zone. Also in this phase, if you have warlock tokens, you can activate your legendary cards to trigger powerful effects on the battlefield. One such effect, for instance, eliminates all the creature cards on the field.

Once you are finished playing your cards, you will start the combat phase. The combat phase is where you can attack your opponents cards! Each creature can attack once. When attacking, select which card you’d like to attack with and their target. There are two different conditions you want to look at when attacking a card, the power level of both cards and the type of both cards. If your card has a higher power level then your opponents, then you gain an advantage as the creatures fight each other.

There are three types of abilities in Warlock: Beauty, Brain, and Brawn. Beauty beats brain, brains beats brawn and brawn beats beauty. If your ability type beats your opponent’s then you gain an advantage over your opponent’s creature. If your creature attacking has the advantage over your opponent’s creature then you destroy your opponent’s card. Draws in the battle keeps both creatures on the field. Destroying a creature adds its power total to your score, displayed at the top of the screen. The first to maximize their score wins.

During the combat phase is when your support cards come into play! If your creature that is battling shares the same color in the support zone you can play that support card to increase your creature’s strength or change the type of ability that creature is during the battle. Make sure that when you place down support cards that the color matches one of your creatures on the field as if they don’t share colors with a creature on the field they can’t support your cards.
After your combat phase you will draw cards based on how many creatures of different colors are in your creature zone plus one card. So if you end the turn with three different colored creatures on the field you draw four cards.

The match continues until one of the players reaches the score limit. You gain points by destroying your opponent’s creature cards. Their strength after applying bonuses from support and field bonuses is how many points you gain towards your score.

King of Games is the hard mode of Kardboard Games! You can turn it on and off on the save selection screen and turn them on and off any time during your playthrough on the save selection screen.


King of Games adds these extra rules to your game, looking to really challenge the best shopkeepers out there

• Weekly Taxes - Every Monday you pay taxes which is calculated based on your sales
  
• Reputation drains over time
  
• Tougher shop goals
  
• More extreme piece changes to trends and ban lists

Also after each day you will be graded on how well you did based on reputation gained, customers served, requests filled, and money spent on cards and decorations.

Card Game Island will be available December 8th and I’m excited to get this update in your hands!

-Riv Otter

Hey card sharks!

If you were watching the Akupara section of MIX Next Publisher Spotlight you would have seen news of the major content update coming to Kardboard Kings called Card Game Island! You can watch the trailer here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2CRCtKyJJc

In the Card Game Island update, you’ll actually play the card game and face off against other characters by buying a plane ticket to Card Game Island! I’ll go deeper into the card game in the future.

Also coming in the Card Game Island update is a new hard mode appropriately named King of Games. You’ll need to be a king at Kardboard Kings to not close down shop. Each day your reputation takes a small hit, you pay taxes every week, and more. While each small little thing doesn’t do too much but together makes the game that much harder. Can you keep the card shop afloat in this new unfavorable mode?

-Riv Otter

Hey, card sharks!

We are still hard at work in developing the next major content update to Kardboard Kings!

Kardboard Kings will be featured in the MIX Publisher Spotlight with new exciting announcements about the upcoming free update. The MIX Publisher Showcase is a special section of MIX Next, the Akupara Publisher Showcase will announce details about upcoming titles, drop new content for our released games and even reveal the next, new Akupara game!

The MIX Publisher Spotlight will go live on October 27th at 12pm PST | 3PM EST.
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mediaindieexchange
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/mediaindieexchange

-Riv Otter

Hey, card sharks!

The second big content update for Kardboard Kings is now live!

We've got three new card sets and a brand new (much requested) gameplay feature to help endgame players churn through their massive collections.

As a note for any achievement hunters out there, all achievements referencing card sets (such as collecting a shiny of every card in the game) will be updated in 0.7.9 to require the new card sets as well.

We’ll be going dark for a while until the next big content patch is ready but… boy let me tell you, it’s gonna be a doozy. Without spoiling anything, I just wanna say… the #1 most requested gameplay feature is coming to Kardboard Kings. It’s happening.

We’ve added 3 new card sets to the game, Noodle Love, Raw Sugar and Pushing Up Daisies from the artists raindemitree[www.instagram.com], Robert Ruszczyk[www.instagram.com] and ungfio[www.instagram.com] respectively. These new cards look absolutely stunning and I hope you’re excited to add them to your collection!

A highly requested feature from deep endgame collectors, the Bargain Bin is going to help you dump your cards without needing to risk a clearance sale or spend days flooding the shop with dead weight. Instead, the Bargan Bin will let you drop any card in for $0.25, making it nice and easy for you to clear out all the cards you’d rather not worry about selling.

And last but not least, if there’s a new patch, that typically means there’s a new episode of Buddy Gets Rich on the horizon! I’ll be playing at 11AM Pacific this Friday, August 5th. You can feel free to give our Twitch stream[twitch.tv] a follow to make sure you get the go live notification!

As ever, thank you for your support and please feel free to report any issues to us on the Steam forums or the Kardboard Kings Discord![discord.gg]

Hey, card sharks!

The first big content update for Kardboard Kings is now live!

We've got three new card sets, eight new decorations and a host of bugfixes all come in our first big content update for Kardboard Kings. The new sets are each done by a new slate of guest artists (who absolutely knock it out of the park, by the by) and will seamlessly add themselves into your current save or a brand new file. Either way works! Same thing will happen with the eight new decorations, these ones coming entirely through Declan's weekly shop goals. Be on the lookout for those exclusives!

As a note for any achievement hunters out there, all achievements referencing card sets (such as collecting a shiny of every card in the game) will be updated in 0.6.3 to require the new card sets as well.

We've got more plans for more features in the next big update (especially to help players in the deep late game with huge card collections) so you can bet I'll be showing that off in the not-too-distant future as well.

Check out the full patch notes:

Features:

• Added 3 new card sets to the game, Hell of a Summer, Legends of Morthia and Oasis of the Unreal.
  
• Added 8 new decorations to Declan's weekly shop goals rewards.
  
• Added a small UI counter to show the number of cards in a player's inventory.

Bug fixes:

• Added missing localised lines.
  
• Fixed alignment of various Set Posters.
  
• Fixed Mail issue caused by receiving multiple handwritten letters on a single day.

Hey, card sharks!

Steam Trading Cards are now available for Kardboard Kings! No, you can't sell them for a profit in the shop but you can collect and trade them with other store owners on the Steam marketplace! This also includes the customary profile badges and emotes so if you want to bring the coolest Kardboard Kings tech to your Steam profile, feel free to get trading!

-Buddy