Commit Graph

6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Psyyringe
4288751b7f Psyringe - added and/or updated flavor texts for lots of decks. Each decks has a flavor text now. Replaced references to out-of-game material like "8/8 creature", "aggro deck", or real-life quotes, to maintain artistic consistency and not disrupt a player's immersion into the fantasy world. I tried to use a wide range of diverse texts (descriptive, taunting, bizarre, comical). Feedback and suggestions for improvement are welcome. 2009-12-19 21:38:13 +00:00
Psyyringe
eab2086160 Changed the description (flavor text) in several AI decks. the old descriptions consisted of flavor texts of existing cards. Even though the flavor texts are often just a few words long, I'm pretty certain that this is copyrighted material, and before we go to great lengths to find out whether any interpretation of "fair use" would allow us to use them nevertheless, I think it's better to just remove them and come up with texts that we don't have to worry about.
Note: I used Google to match our deck descriptions with existing card flavor texts, and then used Google again to check whether the text was in the public domain (the fact that a verse from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner appears on the Scathe Zombies card, does obviously not preclude us from using Coleridge's work ourselves). I may have missed something in wither process, please report if I did.

For the time being, this is unfortunately a loss in quality, since the official flavor texts were obviously better than the replacement texts I thought up in a few minutes. Feel free to replace my texts with something better. This could be original work of yours, or something that's clearly in the public domain. The latter includes classical literature and poetry btw. We already have Milton, Browning, and Coleridge in the flavor texts, and we could certainly use more of that. Unfortunately I've read about 100 SciFi/Fantasy books for every book of classical poetry I even touched, so I'm in a bad position to provide such material, but perhaps someone else can.

I discussed this change with wololo beforehand, because it required changes to decks that weren't made by me.

Please review / criticize.
2009-10-25 12:12:19 +00:00
wagic.laurent
0bc7322277 Laurent - Added 2 AI deck (treefolk and Dragons). + re-added behemoth to giant deck (22) 2009-10-17 17:08:38 +00:00
wagic.laurent
984038e5e2 Laurent - Added cards to USG - First step of Counter adding to parser (does not work yet). Update of AI deck description 2009-06-13 19:43:57 +00:00
wagic.laurent
459840042d Laurent - Removed cards, added few (POR) update AI deck
POR - Removed Man'O'War + Added Hulking Cyclops, Hulking Goblin, Nature's Cloak, Gravedigger, Fire tempest, Dry Spell,Craven Knight, Craven Giant (sorry for this addition could not refrain after seeing them, were probably forgotten)
TMP  - removed Cloudchaser eagle
LEG - Corrected Concordant Crossroad
USG - Removed Dark Hatchling, Monk realist
RAV - REmoved Keening Banshee, also tentative to fix Tolsimir Wolfblood (legendary is not working)
EVE - REmoved Noggle Bridgebreaker
Also made an update and added silly name for AI deck + note that deck 22 is using cards from morningtide and deck 23 cards that the AI do not use correctly (activated abilities) but is not the only one, AI decks needs update/amelioration.
2009-06-10 11:33:41 +00:00
wagic.superhiro
bf8806c8f1 Added deck22 - Giants!. Is still improvable, though :) 2009-06-07 10:50:30 +00:00