Valve has announced that its upcoming upcoming card game, Artifact, will release on Steam on November 20th for Windows, Linux and Mac. In addition, the team revealed that the game will be playable by attendees at PAX West from August 31st until September 3rd.
Artifact is a card game that is heavily based upon and features many elements from DOTA2. The game will differ from most other traditional collectible card games, mainly because it will feature three “lanes” guarded by a tower at the end. Each lane exists as its own independent board and the player that destroys two out of three towers will win the game.
The utimate goal in Artifact is to build a deck of collectable cards, obtained primarily via trading, in order to defeat an opponent in a 1v1 situation, and this video will give you an idea of what you can expect.
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Maybe you mean Shartifact, there’s a typo.
Patent Pending. I’m claiming that one.
Shartifact is actually when you catch a whiff of a wet fart an old person has let out in an elevator.
Basically artifact then.
Um, the date in title and article is wrong: it’s not 20th, the real date is 28th (shown in attached image too). Yeah, 0 and 8 always looked too similar to me too. 🙂
They should’ve made this a shooter. I live in Arizona and everyone has guns. We shoot everything. No one out here plays card. Well, we might throw a card in the air to shoot it, but that’s it. Cards are a waste of pixels. Make more gun games. GUNS!
Games should be made per request. Like, we should be able to walk into an office of a dev and say, “Hey, can you make a game where I’m kind of a guy, but kind of not, kind of a humanoid plant… that resembles a fish and the goal is to catch musical notes out of the air with your tongue which shoots out of your mouth like a frog. Can you make that?”
…and they’d have to say yes. This is a more efficient way of project discovery: cold requests.
Who the F**K cares? GIVE US HALF-LIFE! Or at the least something that ends with the number 3… -_-
Nice, I can’t wait for this game. It’s going to come out the gate as the best Card Game probably since the early MTG games that used to actually be good. Plus, it’s been designed from the MTG designer which means it will actually be a well thought out card game.
I’m not going to sit around and be a baby about the fact that Valve decided to make a card game. I’ve been waiting over a decade for HL3, and I can wait some more for what ever thing will over the leap in Gameplay for Valve to actually develop the game.