Star Trek CCG
The Star Trek Customizable Card Game (Star Trek CCG) was Decipher's first customizable card game. Tom Braunlich and Rollie Tesh designed it. Decipher released it in 1994 as Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game.[1][2] In 2002 Decipher relaunched the game as Second Edition.[2] Franklin Kenter won the 2002 World Championship at DecipherCon 2002 over John Corbett.[3]
Players scored by completing missions and solving dilemmas along a spaceline of locations.[4] Braunlich and Tesh called location-based play "the central element of all of our CCGs".[5] Living on Bainbridge Island near Wizards of the Coast, they met Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield and told Wizards they would not copy Magic.[6]
Relation to SWCCG
Work on Star Wars CCG began right after the Star Trek launch, before the Star Wars license was signed.[7] Braunlich moved to the Star Wars game before the Star Trek game was finished.[6]
SWCCG kept several Star Trek ideas: 60-card decks, film stills as card art, a row of locations, a split between "noun" cards (characters and locations) and "verb" cards (interrupts), and a policy of not rotating old cards out.[6]
Bill Martinson later led design of the Star Trek game. He also edited SWCCG card text with Warren Holland.[8]
See also
- Tom Braunlich · Rollie Tesh · Richard Garfield
- Creators of SWCCG · Decipher
- Inspirations for Star Wars CCG · Design of Star Wars CCG
- DecipherCon 2002
- Young Jedi · Star Wars CCG · SWCCG 2nd Edition
- Transcripts: Radio Free Decipher/Episode 14 transcript · The Booster Pack/Episode 28 transcript
References
- ↑ Kathy McCracken, The History of Star Trek CCG: The Timeline, Decipher (2004). Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Trek Customizable Card Game, Wikipedia. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ Star Trek CCG World Championship Day Three, Kathy McCracken, Decipher Daily News (2 November 2002)
- ↑ Deanna Dusbabek, "Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game", The Duelist 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 50–51. Internet Archive.
- ↑ Broadcast 14 – Radio Free Decipher (16 April 1999): Rollie Tesh, Tom Braunlich (Part 1), Decipher; posted by Player's Council (aired 16 April 1999), 4:39–6:44. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: Radio Free Decipher/Episode 14 transcript.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Booster Pack #27 — The making of the Star Trek CCG with Tom Braunlich, The Booster Pack Network (10 August 2022), 9:06–10:30. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
- ↑ The Booster Pack #28 — The making of the Star Wars CCG with Tom Braunlich, The Booster Pack Network (24 August 2022), 3:06–4:40. Preserved copy: Internet Archive. Transcript: The Booster Pack/Episode 28 transcript.
- ↑ Jerry Darcy on Dagobah, KendallCast (2 November 2021). Audio: Internet Archive. Preserved copy: Internet Archive.