Novel card-building roguelike with more than 10 billion cards.
January 14, 2025
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Maximilian Scherer :
14th Jan 2025, Computer Science professor and indie developer Maximilian Scherer today revealed his second game Card Coder on Steam. This novel card-building roguelike combines tactical card battles with strategic inventory management to empower players to create their own custom cards during play. Players combine four different types of ability components (trigger, condition, selector and effect) to define the exact behaviour of their card. With over 10 billion possibilities, players can create (almost) any card they could dream of.
"Build your cards to fit your playstyle -- not the other way round." This was Prof. Scherer's driving motivation in developing Card Coder and the main innovation and USP over existing deck-builders. This customization extends to the visuals of the cards. Players can freely adjust the artwork of their cards by choosing between beautiful pixelart characters included in the game, or any images located on their own computer. The card battles themselves reward tactical positioning and building synergies and combos on the board. The default game mode is a rogulike run, with a series of increasingly difficult battles. After each battle the player can loot gold, new cards and components. The shopping and card-building phase in between battles lets players upgrade, rework and finetune their cards and their whole deck.
The trailer is now available on Youtube:
Card Coder is planned to release in late 2025 / early 2026. Players can wishlist the game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3355940/Card_Coder/ .
A presskit is available at https://prof-scherer.com/card-coder-presskit .
Prof. Scherer can be contacted for press inquiries at [email protected] .
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About Prof. Scherer
Maximilian Scherer has a PhD in computer science and is a professor for business information systems at DHBW Mannheim Germany. In his day job he focusses on teaching programming, artificial intelligence and machine learning and likes to integrate game-based learning techniques in his teaching. A gamer at heart, Maximilian started his own solo venture in 2022 to develop the kind of games he is truly passionate about: Crafty Buildy Strategy games with a flavour of programming mechanics. His debut title JOY OF PROGRAMMING - where players use real Python code to automate robots, machines, drones and more to solve bite-sized programming challenges - was released in 2024 and leaves Early Access on January 18th. He is currently working on his second title Card Coder.
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