Card Game

Card Game
Ok it's taken a while but I've finally got a pretty good idea for my card game. I've just noticed anyway that I've not posted anything up on my blog about it so I just thought I'd let the world know how it's going.
So I've got to design my own card game with a maximum of 60 cards, it has to be totally unique but at the same time not overly complicated. To be honest I've had a lot of trouble with this project, it's not that I've not wanted to get on with it but it's hard to come up with a totally new idea. My first thoughts was to have like a medieval battle game, players could arange cards in different formations and move them about, but after a while I realised that the only way to do this would be with a board or a grid and we're not allowed, also it'd be too hard to make the game without it being too over complicated.
So I decided against that idea, I might keep it in mind though for next term and the board game. I then came up with the idea of a Final Fantasy style battle system and I've gone with that idea and I really think that it works.

Whats unique about my game though is the way in which players play, each card has a value, stronger cards are worth 3, 4 or even 5 while weaker cards are worth less. The cards chosen by the player must add up to a value of 20. So depending on the player and how they want to play you will always be playing against a different style of play, the two extreme examples are one player chooses 20 weak cards with a value of 1 each while another chooses only a few extremely powerful cards but sacrifices a lot in terms of numbers. It's a very interesting system and I'm very happy with it. I've gone through two prototypes already and I'm pretty sure that the game works now, at the moment I'm going through the stages of balancing the cards out not making any too powerful or weak and so on. I want to get to the stage where there is a way to beat any hand, in other words there is no perfect way to play. I'll explain a lot more about my game later I just don't want to explain everything in text it's kind of hard to understand, I'll get some images up too hopefully and stick my rules up soon.