Yugioh Card Maker Forum

Post in this thread if you would like to accept one of these jobs.

Note: The table background is customizable, if you're wondering.

You may now also PM your cards to Yu-Gi-Oh 5D`s, ઽђαđѳખρℓαઽʍα or Lopunny to check OCG and other realistic things. I suggest doing this when I am offline or busy

If you cannot make your own booster packs for your sets, ask one of the Booster Makers listed above. For now, since I have no Booster Makers, you can ask me to make them for you (I won't charge anything).

Do not be afraid to make the cards a tiny OPed. I think it would be great if I could add a Banlist to the game once is complete. But do not go overboard with this. Once people begin playing, they can report if a card seems too powerful, and I will add it to the (future) Banlist (containg Forbidden, Restricted, and Semi-Restricted). But once again, this is entirely optional.

Minimum Cards to Be Made Per Week: 10

This is the LackeyCCG plugin for the actual YGO TCG. If you want to try it out so you get a sense of what the program is like, read on:

Download LackeyCCG here:
http://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html
After unzipping it, run LackeyCCG.exe. At the top should be 4 tabs called "Game: solitaire", "Deck Editor", "Server" and "Preferences". Click Preferences.
Now, copy one of these links. The first has quite large card images to read effects better, but slows things down and makes things cluttered. The second has reasonably sized images (which have the same image size I'll be using for this one).

http://www.lackeyccg.com/yugioh/high/updatelist.txt
http://www.lackeyccg.com/yugioh/medium/updatelist.txt

Go back to LackeyCCG and paste it in the box that "Update from URL" beside it. Then click the "Update from URL" button.

Watch the big text box (the "log") until it finishes. The last line should say "Autoupdate proccess completed successfully. Relaunch LackeyCCG for changes to take effect."
So close Lackey and open it again.

Once opened again, click Preferences again. This time, click the "Browse" button. Click "yugioh" in the list and click "Choose". Then click "Load Plugin".

If you need further help, PM me.

For anyone wanting to add cards, but want to do most of the work (seriously, putting 130 cards into a database by yourself is time consuming), here is how to put them in a card database that I can easily add to the game's folder:
1. Get any spreadsheet software (such as Microsoft Excel). If you don't have one, I suggest you get OpenOffice free here: http://www.openoffice.org/
2. Open the spreadsheet porgram.
3. Okay, this is very important. The first 12 columns MUST be these 12 (in order from left-to-right, minus the []):
[Name] [Set] [Imagefile] [Card Type] [Rarity] [Attribute] [Level] [Type] [Creator] [ATK] [DEF] [Text]
4. Here is what to put in each column:
Name - The card's name. You cannot use accented letters such as é.
Set - What set the card comes from in its abbreviation (example: you're making a set called "Destructive Darkness". You decide its abbreviation should be "DTDK". You would put DTDK.)
Imagefile - The name of the card's image, minus the ".jpg". Remember: all card images MUST be .jpg and their file names cannot contain spaces, but you can use _ (underscores).
Card Type - What type of card it is, like Normal Monster, Effect Monster, Spell etc. For Effect Monsters that have a subtype like Synchro, Fusion, Union, Gemini etc, you would put "Synchro/Effect Monster".
Rarity - The card's rarity.
Attribute - The card's attribute, which should be all caps. (example: DARK, not Dark.) If it is not a monster, leave it blank.
Level - The card's level. If it is not a monster, leave it blank.
Type - The card's type. For monsters, just put their monster type, like "Beast" or "Fiend". For Spell and Trap Cards, put what kind of Spell or Trap they are, such as "Normal", "Field" or "Counter".
Creator - The creator of the card's username. (Yours obviously.)
ATK - The card's ATK. If it is not a monster, leave it blank.
DEF - The card's DEF. If it is not a monster, leave it blank.
Text - The card's effect or flavor text.
5. Put in all the information for the other cards based on the last step.
6. Save it as the default file extension that the spreadsheet uses. (OpenOffice uses .ods files, for example.)
7. Upload the the database file somewhere.
8. Get the download link for it and PM it to me.

If you would like to see an example of how the database should look, here is an example (you need OpenOffice to open it, though):
http://uploading.com/files/db381345/AOGL.ods/