Potential digital marketing idea (Xbox LIVE)

By DreadArkive, in CoC General Discussion

Having recently played the Magic: The Gathering game released for Xbox Arcade I am further certain that a version of the Call of Cthulhu: LCG would be are very welcome and potentially succesful idea. Not only for players of the real game, but to introduce it to a whole world of those unfamiliar with it. Due to the LCG format, this game would be much more presentable to a digital medium as well, since there is no "rare hunting" required to obtain certain cards. An initial version could be simply a digital version of the Starter Set, and if deemed succesful enough, Asylum Packs could be provided through DLC in either individual packs or possibly sets of 4 (or any combination the devs see fit).

Just a thought I'm sure they have probably already passed on that I would love to see, who else agrees?

DreadArkive said:

Having recently played the Magic: The Gathering game released for Xbox Arcade I am further certain that a version of the Call of Cthulhu: LCG would be are very welcome and potentially succesful idea. Not only for players of the real game, but to introduce it to a whole world of those unfamiliar with it. Due to the LCG format, this game would be much more presentable to a digital medium as well, since there is no "rare hunting" required to obtain certain cards. An initial version could be simply a digital version of the Starter Set, and if deemed succesful enough, Asylum Packs could be provided through DLC in either individual packs or possibly sets of 4 (or any combination the devs see fit).

Just a thought I'm sure they have probably already passed on that I would love to see, who else agrees?

It would be awesome, but also far more complicated. Just think of the AI. Most of Magic plays itself - Especially since the software only uses basic land. CoC has far broader descision trees. When to resource, what to resource, on what domain to resource, where to commit...

What might work is Arkham Horror. The boardgame already has it's AI in the mechanics...