About a year ago (as I tend to do every few years), I got interested in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Since the late 90's when it first was a thing and I purely collected them cause it was as close to actually completing a Pokedex in real life. Then after a stint of Yu-Gi-Oh in high school I became interested in how the game actually played and started making decks from my mammoth collection. But the phaze had passed for most people so I had no one but myself to play against, so games became mainly theoretical.
So a year ago, I get interested in the TCGs again but the frustrations of regular gameplay are just too much, the resource gathering and luck of prize cards are just no fun, so I start to think how one could make a good card game without them, have it be fast and fun. Within a few hours I had the basic rules and about two dozen cards for what ended up being called: Meme King Gold.
The cards were based on internet memes and pop culture referances and the rules were based on a stylized internet argument. After brain storming with a fellow uni student and doing some play testing we ended up with about 120 cards, a full set of rules, 5 structured decks and no play testers. Lots of people liked the idea but didn't have the time. It was a great idea we just had no way to properly work it or get it out to a larger audiance or any audiance.
To date my card game love has since shifted to Magic the Gathering and Meme King Gold has been shelved indeffinatly (I'd feel bad not having the other guy who helpped involved, we sort of drifted apart at the end of semester).
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