Years ago I had plans on trying to get a Triple Triad card game added to Vizzed. Like many of my plans, it never happened. Lately I've been considering it again but I'm wondering if it'd be worth doing. Years ago I purchased the following script:
http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/store/product/23-triple-triad/
(you can see some images here)

And you can see a demo of it taking place here:
http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/tripletriad.php?s=ae3ef2e0124a041f7abcec61b5e0cd07&do=arena&act=replay&id=283

The only problem is that it was created for vBulletin which means a lot of time would go into making it compatible with Vizzed. My options would be to convert that script to this site, pay someone else to make in compatible with custom site code, create a triple triad game from the ground up or pay someone to build one from the ground up (of course with my finances being terrible lately, it's very unlikely I'd have the budget to pay anyone to help out any time soon).

Benefits and features include:
-Users could battle each other in real time and all stats would be recorded
-Users could buy packs of cards (giving them random cards) which increases value of Viz
-Users could buy, sell or auction their cards (again, increases value of Viz)
-We'd have the ability to create more cards beyond the default FF8 cards (such as Pokemon themed)
Be sure to click the first link I posted to see all features

Anyways, what do you guys think of this? Would it be worth doing? Or would another card game be worth investing time into?

Sounds like the idea for a card game I came up with, but a lot more doable, so I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be here, sounds like a great idea.

zanderlex : Wow that was a quick response. Did you get a chance to look at the URLs I provided?

I'm all in for this. I'm an absolute fan of TCG games, and while I have never tried anything related to Final Fantasy, I get used to anything really fast.

Also, like zander said, it would be beautiful if it could mutate into this: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=91863

Davideo7 : yeah, but I don't understand the stuff on the cards like the numbers or why they go where they did, so I'll have to learn how to actually play.

zanderlex : I'll look more into your thread and reply to it later but glancing over it, I like the idea. I've actually been thinking of how cool it'd be if we had our own card game on Vizzed where users could do the things you mentioned and more. The difference between our ideas is that my idea as basically having cards based on retro games in the RGR with various types of cards like a location card (for example, a Kanto card based on Pokemon would show the world map view of Kanto region), character card (like Mario for example), an item card, etc. All graphics would be directly ripped from the games. Now I'm not sure how I'd go about making it an actual card game that could be but I've got a few ideas that I'd reveal at a later time if there was enough interest in something like that.

EX Palen : Refer to the above.

Davideo7 : Oh, cool. In case you were wondering, Ex Palen's profile pic happens to be a card that we made for that threads idea.

Over the course of the thread though, we talk about incorporating the stats that are on users profile so that it could be a full fledged card battling game.

I don't really get how the game works as I have never gotten to play FFVIII, but I'm certainly open to learning. I generally like playing card games. I have never actually gotten the chance to play Pokémon Trading Card game or Yugioh with anyone, which I'm also interested in, but I imagine that licensing would be an issue with those... I also don't have the budget or hardware to run Table Top Simulator on Steam, so I would really like to see a Vizzed hosted card game I could play with other people. Not to mention the possibility that we could hold tournaments and wager Viz on matches, if the game is suitable.

m0ssb3rg935 : I wouldn't actually license the Triple Triad game since it's not really a legal concern. Pokemon card game would be but I still don't think Nintendo would do all that much about it unless I was charging money for it or something. Speaking of Pokemon Card game, I'd love to have that on here but that would be far more complicating to create and implement.

zanderlex : I don't really like the idea of cards being based on users though because a user's stats change and their profile pictures change as well so the cards would become outdated in no time. The future battle arena will be utilize the stats and items on user profiles though.

After Zander made the suggestion of a card game on Vizzed, I have eagerly hoping to see if you would consider some form of card game to implement into the site. This sounds like a great idea! I'm all up for this if you ever make a decision on whether or not to implement this into the site. Like Moss said, I'd of course have to learn it first, but I imagine it won't be THAT complicated. I look forward to more updates and I'll be sure to check this thread occasionally.

LunarDarkness2 : LunarDarkness2 : The game is actually pretty simple. A user could pretty much learn everything there is to know about the game in less than an hour.

I agree though that Vizzed needs a card system of some sort. Users being able to buy packs of cards, trade cards and sell cards would definitely increase the value of Viz but I think the cards would have to have more purpose than just for looks, otherwise users may not have as much of an incentive to invest Viz on them so a playable card game to go along with it would be awesome.

Back in 2004 I actually started to put together my own card game using my own graphics but it never made it past the graphic process.

Davideo7 : That's why we came up with an idea for yearly sets, like how most tcg and sports cards sets work. That way different stats/pics can be involved, different users can be added and dropped, and people would have a reason to keep getting them.

m0ssb3rg935 : There exist free to play Yugioh and Pokemon TCG online games. I was close to work on the Spanish translation of a YGOPro version, and I've been lately playing the official Pokemon TCGO. I admit it's always best if you could play those in real life, but at least you get to play them for free.

Davideo7 : I don't think it would be that hard to make a Pokemon TCG for Vizzed. As I've said above, I've been playing it recently, and there aren't as many parameters as in your Final Fantasy game. True is that there's probably an enormous card database, but we can safely reduce it heavily by getting rid of too many copies of the same card. Also, if we got a Vizzed version of it, we could introduce a few changes to it that the official game is missing, even when they defy all logic.

Now that I think about it, making a Pokémon game for Vizzed would be more complicated and time consuming. Though, you could just take it in baby steps by adding them one region at a time. Starting out with this Triple Triad thing could be a great trial run to see how popular these features would be though, and with each card game added with time, it could bring totally new crowds to Vizzed and maybe even some donations.

EX Palen : I didn't know these things existed... I'll have to check them out sometime. Thanks.

EX Palen : Triple Triad isn't nearly as complex as you think. I understand how both Triple Triad and Pokemon TCG work and creating a Pokemon TCG game would be far more difficult than a Triple Triad game. A lot of the Pokemon cards would require extra coding for each.

Davideo7 :   I loved and hated that game so much, but I would love to play something like that on here, and to play live,  with other players, would be incredible.  I wish I could fund your idea, but my account is pretty dry at the moment as well.  Please keep us posted with any updates you have for the game.  The numbers have different meanings depending on the rules of the area of Final Fantasy 8 you are in, as they change the rules depending on the area.  It can get pretty tough at the end of the game..nigh impossible

Davideo7 : I'm with everyone else here and think this is an awesome idea. I loved Triple Triad in FF8 although like lordbelial669 mentioned, some of the rules toward the end were a little ridiculous. I'd love to see something like that on Vizzed. Also, having our own unique TCG could bring in a whole new fan base into the site. If it comes to be, watch your back guys, I shall show no mercy!!!

I just did a little research on the FF wiki, and it's a lot more simple than I thought. Kinduh like War on a 3x3 grid. I'm down for this.

I like the idea as well. I'd prefer if it was more Vizzed based personally but I understand that that would take longer.

I don't know much about games like this but I love the idea of having some sort of battle arena type game on the site.

Davideo7 : So if you found a way to do this, whether its hiring someone, creating it yourself, etc, about how long do you think it would take before we could see something like this?