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Similar games

1,000 Blank White Cards

Dvorak without the rule structure - more of an exercise in artistry and improvisational humour, with a leaning towards the surreal and the non sequitur. The original game for blank pieces of cardboard, with browseable card archives.

Bartok

Another Nomic card game, playable with a standard deck of playing cards and focusing more on memorised rule creation than writing anything down. Essentially Uno (or Eights, or whatever your local species) with a "make up a new rule when you win a round" addendum. Fun.

Mao

Bartok with one extra rule; that all new rules are secret.

Nomic

The original game of self-amendment, which has proven particularly suitable for online play. Nomic.net provides the original Suber ruleset, as well as links to existing online Nomics and a wide range of relevant material and discussion.

Game engines

Apprentice

Apprentice is a lo-fi card-game engine for real-time play; despite the graphical drag-and-drop interface, no card art is used. Although geared by default for Magic: The Gathering, Apprentice's data files are in text format, and by replacing certain files with correctly-formatted equivalents, it can be altered to run any Dvorak CCG set. The one-deck-per-player nature of the engine prevents it being any use for shared-deck Dvorak games, however.

Requirements:

• Windows 95/98
• 2MB of hard drive space

The Gatling Engine

CCG Workshop's Gatling Engine is a card-game engine for real-time play. It supports a variety of games provided by the site, and a "gatlingDevKit" exists for creation of further games. This engine has not yet been tested for Dvorak decks.

Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP (Windows 98 may encounter stability issues)
• 512MB RAM
• Approximately 80MB hard drive space
• 56Kbs or higher internet connection, broadband recommended

Generic Collectible Card Game

The GCCG Engine is a card-game engine for real-time play. It's not immediately clear whether it's possible to add new card sets to it.

Requirements:

• Mac/Linux/Windows. Claims to work on any platform with SDL.

Thoth

Thoth is a generic graphical card-game engine, playable real-time or turn-based via email. A couple of Dvorak decks - Time Machine and Mediaeval Warfare - have been formatted for Thoth. Thoth can apparently be used to play creative Dvorak, although this has not been tested.

Requirements:

• Unknown, other than being Windows-only.

Tools

A Dvorak deck in Deck Creator

Deck Creator

The first draft of a Windows-based deck editor from Eyecreate.

A Dvorak card in Magic Set Editor

Magic Set Editor

Magic Set Editor supports the creation and printing of decks. It originally supported only Magic: The Gathering decks, but now can be extended to support a variety of CCGs. It features card backs that can be easily edited by any image editing program, and style markup sheets that can be somewhat easily edited by a text editor.

For a Dvorak template, unzip this into the /data directory of MSE2. This is a first draft. It supports three types of card (Generic/Rule, Action and Thing). Copy the style directory to a new one if you want to make customized card art for a particular deck.