Illustrations

  • Legacy’s Allure is set in a high-fantasy universe (“swords and sorcery”), like Lord of the Rings and Magic: the Gathering.
  • Art style and quality is similar in quality to Magic: the Gathering, Epic Card Game, Flesh and Blood, and Gwent.
  • The illustrations must look good on a poker-sized card with a card frame similar to Magic: the Gathering. Therefore, it is important that the art is not too “busy” or “noisy” or cluttered. We prefer that the art does not include an action scene. The character / object in the image should not be far away.
  • Please do not include any nudity, cleavage, or sensuality. Women should be properly dressed for battle.
    • GOOD – Properly dressed.
    • BAD – Too much cleavage.
    • BAD – Too much cleavage.
    • BAD – Too much skin.
    • BAD – Too much skin.

Card Frames

I need the following 10 card frames. The current card frames, which show faction colors, are here.

  • Items (closed frame)
  • Arengard hero (open frame)
  • Arengard ability (closed frame)
  • Arengard unit (closed frame)
  • Gath hero (open frame)
  • Gath ability (closed frame)
  • Gath unit (closed frame)
  • Sylvan hero (open frame)
  • Sylvan ability (closed frame)
  • Sylvan unit (closed frame)

The heroes have open card frames to show off their artwork. You can see the hero artwork here. You can also see how MTG or modified MTG cards use open / closed card frames differently:

Learn about the factions in the Illustrations section below.

The faction colors have sufficient chromatic spacing because ten factions will be in the game and they will mostly be distinguishable by their color and card frame. Cards do not state what faction the card is from.

Icons

Card Icons

This game will have several icons on each card, depending on whether the card is a unit, ability, or item. The first set will represent data contained on each card:

  • Gold – How much the card costs. (top right on all cards)
  • Power – How much damage the unit does. (bottom row on unit cards)
  • Range – How much range the unit has. (bottom row on unit cards)
  • Movement – How far the unit can move. (bottom row on unit cards)
  • Health – How much health the unit has. (bottom row on unit cards)
  • Mana – How much mana the unit has or how much mana the ability costs. (bottom row for units, middle row for abilities)
  • Inventory Slots – How many inventory slots the item uses. (middle row on item cards)

Faction Icons

Each faction will need its own icon, much like each color in magic has its own icon. The icons should be simple and not overly ornate. You can see the art prompts for each faction in the Prompts section below. (e.g., “Faction – Arengard)

Illustrations

Legacy’s Allure has three types of cards: Heroes, Units, Abilities (Spells), and Items.

Each faction has 42 cards. The game also has about 30 items. This comes out to roughly 450 cards. Initially, however, we will only create about 30 pieces of artwork. Please view the faction mood boards before looking at the prompts for each card.