Magic: The Gathering, Evolved

2 points·myoung8··6 comments

I'm sure a lot of people here played this game (and some probably still do). I ended up playing again over the weekend after a years-long hiatus and realized that there might be a big opportunity to create some sort of web-based online trading card game that doesn't suck as much as MtG, ChronX, or Sanctum.

If anyone's interested, please ping me (myoung8@stanford.edu or myoung8 on skype)

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I funded a couple guys that wanted to do something like this a few years ago...but they completely dropped the ball because they were really only interested in the tech challenges instead of the creative and business aspects. (They basically made the cardinal geek sin of getting too focused on the tech instead of customers, so they've been spinning their wheels with a distributed game server that no one wants instead of working on an actual game they could sell.)

If you get anywhere with this, shoot me an email. I'd also be very interested in online murder mystery games.

will do. what's your email address?

Hey "Shooter" ... couldn't help but notice your posts seem to filled with "if any one has any ideas how to solve xyz, shoot me an email" type comments, yet your profile lists no contact info.

Yeah, fixed.

I was one of the people that thought the email address I put in the YC.News profile resulted in a visible link.

Good idea. I am unavailable, but keep us posted on what you come up with! I see a huge market for this. And the monetization is a no-brainer: sponsored cards.

i don't know about the MtG online interface, but the game itself is very well done.

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