E-Card

An in-development iOS app that simulates the E-Card game from the anime Gyakkyō Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor. It is a 2-player turn-based game.

The app is being built using SwiftUI and uses GameKit for multiplayer functionality.

Gameplay Rules

The game is centered around three types of cards, each symbolizing a role in a simplified version of society:

• Emperor (koutei): Represents ultimate power and wealth. The Emperor card defeats Citizen cards.
• Citizen (shimin): Represents the common people who seek wealth but are subservient to the Emperor. Citizen cards lose to the Emperor but defeat the Slave.
• Slave (dorei): Represents those with nothing to lose and no desire for wealth. The Slave card defeats the Emperor but loses to Citizen cards.

Card Distribution

• Emperor Side: Four Citizen cards and one Emperor card.
• Slave Side: Four Citizen cards and one Slave card.

Since the Slave Side has a harder time winning (Slave cards only defeat Emperor cards), the Slave Side earns five times the winnings if victorious.

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Game Flow

Each game consists of 12 matches, grouped into 4 groups of 3 rounds. Each group alternates which player is the Emperor Side. The rounds proceed as follows:

Round Flow:

1. The Emperor Side places a card face down first.
2. The Slave Side then places a card face down.
3. Both cards are revealed, and the winner is determined based on the card rules:
   • Emperor beats Citizen.
   • Citizen beats Slave.
   • Slave beats Emperor.

Handling Draws:

• First Draw: Cards are removed, and the Slave Side plays a card first in the next play.
• Second Draw: Cards are removed again, and the Emperor Side plays a card first in the final play of the round.
• Third Draw: If a draw occurs in the final play, the round concludes without a winner.

After each round:

• All played cards are collected.
• The next round begins, alternating which side plays the first card.

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Group of Rounds

• 1st Group of 3 Rounds: Emperor Side plays first in the first round.
• 2nd Group of 3 Rounds: The roles switch; the Slave Side becomes the Emperor Side, and vice versa.
• 3rd and 4th Groups of 3 Rounds: Roles alternate after each group.

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Winning the Game

• After all 12 matches have been played:
  • The player with the most victories wins the game.

Development progress

• I started working on the UI
• I implemented matchmaking via GameKit
• The Menu and Rules screens have ready prototypes, the Game screen is a heavy WIP right now.

The Menu Screen (WIP)	The Rules Screen (WIP)	The Matchmaking & Game Screen (WIP)