MatchEra - WarEra Community Football TCG

I built a card-football game on top of WarEra. The whole point is that the cards are us. I pulled in nations, governments, parliaments and the top fighters and turned them into collectible cards, each with their own attack, defence and stars. So far that's 772 cards across 39 nations, and I'm still adding more.

I should say upfront that I built this with a lot of help from Claude, Anthropic's AI. A good part of the code and the card art came out of working with it.

How it works

You collect cards and build a squad. For 11-a-side that's one keeper and ten outfield players in fixed positions, so you can't just stack your best cards wherever you want. Then you play matches against other people.

A match is turn-based. You attack with one card against their defence and keeper, they attack back, and the higher value wins the duel. You get a few boosts per match to swing a single duel, so I wanted timing to matter as much as raw stats.

A couple of things I put in so squad-building isn't just picking the biggest numbers:

• Chemistry. Cards from the same nation make each other stronger, so a squad built around one nation beats a random pile of stars. The keeper still counts towards the nation but doesn't get the bonus himself.

• Single-use cards. Each card only plays one role per match, so your depth matters, not just your starting eleven.

• A referee (Mods/Admins). I added red cards, offside and VAR, so a duel you thought you won can still get taken off you.

Modes

There's ranked and casual. Ranked is always 11-a-side with a star budget so teams stay comparable, and it's strictly player versus player, no bots. Casual is more relaxed. There's also a practice mode against the computer if you just want to try a squad out. You earn coins from matches and spend them on packs in the shop.

Where to play

It runs as a Discord Activity, so you can open it right inside a voice channel, or play in the browser at www.warzeit.de . No download.

If you want your own WarEra character in the game as a card, drop your warera profile in the Options menu and I'll add you.