Hello everyone,

for the past 4-5 years, I have been working on a semi-secret project. Long story short, I am a big fan of trading card games like Magic The Gathering, but two things always bummed me out about them. One, they are prohibitively expensive, and two, they don't have pornographic furry artwork in them. So I got to work on rectifying that and I made my own card game, "Devil's Hand". Well, to be totally upfront, it is only about 95% finished and still lacks a few pieces of art and a bit of polish here and there. But my extensive test-play sessions have shown that it is fully playable and ready for a public release.

My biggest inspiration for the game was the 2003 GameCube game "Phantasy Star Online Episode 3: C.A.R.D. Revolution", which had a very unique way of combining deck building and card game elements with a simple miniature battle game. I have never really seen that particular combination of gameplay elements done anywhere else, but I loved it so much that I wanted to use that as the basis for my own game. Devil's Hand comes with 6 pre-built decks of cards to choose from, though you have the option to re-combine any of these cards to build your own custom decks too. Each player controls a devil character and uses their cards to summon their mortal servants to the battlefield, where they can then control them to fight strategic battles against your opponent. Your cards also include spells to turn the tide of battle and equipment to help your servants fight more effectively. First player to kill the opponents devil character wins.

Some of you may remember a range of devil characters that I have been posting in the past in artworks like this. Now I can finally reveal their actual purpose. These are the commander characters you control in the game. They sit down in Hell all day and get pretty bored when they're not being summoned to invade some unfortunate mortal plane or help out with an apocalypse somewhere. So to pass the time, they came up with a way to use all of these mortal souls they have lying around as playing cards to fight each other with. Death is meaningless in the afterlife, so these games can become quite bloody... but I am sure it's okay, these are all evil sinners after all! I've been hoarding artwork for these devils and their servants for the past few years now, and I am pretty excited I can finally start uploading all of it bit by bit now.

So here is how you can play the game:

The game itself is free for anyone to play and modify as they see fit. Right now there are two ways to play:

1. Tabletop Simulator. This is the intended and easier way of playing it. I did all of my simulations and play-testing in Tabletop Simulator and Devil's Hand is available as a free mod for it through the Steam Workshop. The mod itself is free, however, TTS is a commercial program that costs around 20$ on Steam (though it's currently 50% off due to the ongoing winter sale). If this is the route you want to take, you can find Devil's Hand here on the Steam Workshop.

2. Print & Play version. If Tabletop Simulator is not an option for you, you can print out the cards and other game pieces yourself and craft your own physical version of the game. I made a public Google Drive folder with all of the necessary files and instructions (Readme file) on how to do so. You can find it here.

The above Google Drive link also contains some resources and graphics for anyone who wants to make their own custom cards for the game. Making your own homebrew cards and decks for the game is allowed and encouraged.


Last but definitely not least, I should mention that I had a lot of help from some very generous friends in making this game. Not only did they help me test and refine the games rules in many, many play-test sessions, but some of them even went so far as to volunteer drawing some of the card art for me. You will see each artists name credited on the individual cards, but I just want to give everyone who helped during the development of this game a huge thank you! Each and every one of you was such a huge help in managing this workload and keeping me motivated to keep working on this:
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I hope I didn't forget anyone...

I for one will now start uploading all of the artwork I made for the game bit by bit, as well as ironing out the last few kinks of the game. I really wanted to get this out during the holidays, because I don't know when my next vacation is going to be and when I'll get another chance to do so. So to you all, I hope you have fun playing some card games in Hell, and if you're not interested in the game itself, that you'll at least enjoy the oncoming flood of sexy devil-themed artwork.

Rock on, everybody!