An AI-Powered Game with Infinite Possibilities

How to Play

Your goal is to discover powerful card combinations and battle increasingly complex foes.

1. Craft: Drag one card onto another to craft a new card. The result depends on which cards were combined, giving the game unlimited possibilites.
2. Battle: Send your cards into battle to defeat the enemy card. Drag your card of choice into the battle zone and click Battle! Use strategy for card management to defeat cards other players have created.
3. Earn Rewards: When you defeat a card, you capture it for your own. Defeat a boss to earn even more rewards and perhaps even unlock some strong powerups ...

New Discoveries

If you are the first player to discover a new card, that card will appear golden for you anytime you obtain it. Your username will also appear at the bottom of the card, giving you credit for the discovery. Compete with other players to make the strongest cards! Playrs that create the most new discoveries will be shown on the leaderboard! Additionally, some powerups may reward you for your discoveries ...

Enemies and Bosses

The enemy you must face can be any card that has been discovered by any player. Keep progressing to play against sronger and more complex cards other players have created in these AI-driven battles! Every five rounds, the enemy will be a boss card and have additional traits. This makes the battle more challenging, so make sure to stock up on powerful cards to face it. When you defeat a boss card, the shop will appear, allowing you to get more cards, or possibly even a powerup!

Community

Join the Infinite Card community to share your craziest combos, give feedback, and see what other players are creating:

• Join the Infinite Card Discord
• Discuss on r/InfiniteCard
• Watch videos on YouTube

FAQs

Bosses

Every 5 rounds, the enemy will be a boss and have additional attributes. Here is a list of the attributes and their effects:

• Spite - Cards that battle this card lose 2 charges instead of 1
• Revenge - Cards that defeat this card will be destroyed
• Glass - You will not gain this card upon defeating it.
• Combines Required: X - Must combine X cards before you can battle
• Hidden - The enemy is hidden! You must guess what this enemy is by observing the action words that appear from battling it
• Lives: X - Must defeat this enemy with X different cards. Cannot battle with the same card twice, but duplicates are okay

Powerups

Obtain rewards from defeating bosses. Here are some unlockable powerups that you can earn:

Divide

Combine with a card to split it into the two cards that created it.

Note: Cards often can be made in multiple ways. Divide splits a card into the two cards that originally created it even if you made that card with a different combination. However, if you use divide right away, before you combine too many other cards, you will get your cards back.

Charge Max

Sets this card's charges (or number of remaining uses) to the max value, which is 5. Use this to replenish a card that has been used up.

Clone

Creates an exact copy of a card.

Populate

Creates two copies of a card, each with one charge. Creates an additional copy if the card is a new discovery.

Card Packs

Card Packs add cards to the shop that can be selected in future shops.

Note: Card packs 4 and 5 require you to have obtained one of the previous card packs, and card packs 6 and 7 require you to have obtained 2 previous card packs for them to appear in the shop. Card Pack 0 will only appear once a certain codition is met ...

Expand

Adds another card slot to the shop, providing more options to the player. The max number of shop slots is 5, so this powerup can only be obtained twice per game.

Inject

Allows a single combination with the enemy card. Use this to cripple a strong enemy that can't be beaten otherwise

Note: This card is rare to appear in the shop, and you can only obtain one Inject per game.

Manifest

Transforms a card into a random card that you have discovered. Discover more cards to increase your catelogue!

Transform (Full Game Only)

Transforms a card into a random card that any player has discovered.

Transmogrify (Full Game Only)

Transforms a card into a random card that any player has discovered with the same magnitude as the sacrificed card. Magnitude is a metric to represent how many combinations are required to make the corresponding card.

Alchemist (Full Game Only)

New Discoveries have a 60% chance to spawn a Divide

Create (Full Game Only)

The user enters a card name (Any word or phrase 20 characters or below) to generate a new card with that name. This powerup only appears once at round 100 as a reward for making it that far. Cards made with Create can appear as enemies for all players past round 100.

Note: If the user types a name of a card that already exists, Create will simply spawn the named Card and will not make a new card.

AI Integration

AI determines card combinations, generates flavor text and card art, and evaluates the outcomes of battles. To beat an enemy, your card must convince the AI that it would win in a fight between the two. For example, if the enemy is Fire, you might use your Water Card because Water puts out Fire, or if the enemy was Dragon, a card like Knight might win because the AI will think the Knight would slay the Dragon.

• Combination Engine: X + Y = Z. Text to Text, perfomed by Googe's Gemini
• Flavor Text: Generates flavor text for new cards. Text to Text, performed by Google's Gemini
• Image Generation: Each card has an AI-generated image about that card. Text to Image, Performed by Replicate
• Battle Result: Determines the outcome of battles. Text to Text, performed by Google's Gemini
• Action Word: Generates the action words used in the battle outcomes and determines the color of the word. Text to Text, performed by Google's Gemini
• Sound Effects: All sound effects were generated by AI. Text to Audio, preformed by Elevenlabs.

AI Models

• Google's Gemini
• Replicate
• Elevenlabs

Enemy Selection

The enemy is pulled randomly from the pool of all exiting cards. This means the enemy you face in each round is a card that was created by another player. When you discover a new card, you are unlocking that card to be an enemy for other players.

To create a scale of difficulty, each card is scored by how many combinations it took to make that card. This value is referred to as magnitude. Cards can only appear as an enemy as a funtion of the player's round number. So, cards with a greater magnitude require the player to progress farther before they can appear. This means cards that are very complex/strong won't appear immediately and kill the run.

AI Disclaimer

This game utilizes generative AI models to create text and image-based content. While there are many safeguards in place to ensure the AI doesn't generate innapropriate content, there is still a small chance that some cards may not be flagged and end up being offensive or inappropriate. By playing this game, you acknowledge and accept this risk.

Full Game Content

Infinite Card is designed so that most of the game can be enjoyed for free. You can craft cards, battle enemies, make new discoveries, earn powerups, and climb the leaderboard without paying anything.

However, the AI that powers card generation, images, and battle logic costs real money to run. To help cover these costs, a few premium features are reserved for players who purchase the Full Game for a one-time fee of $5.

What You Get with the Full Game

Purchasing the Full Game unlocks all paid content listed below for your account:

• 1. Card Dex (Full Card Encyclopedia)
  Unlock a full Card Dex that lets you browse every card that exists in the game so you can see what cards other players have discovered.
• 2. AI Battle Reasoning
  After each battle, you can view a detailed explanation of why the AI chose that outcome, a full explanation of the AI's reasoning.
• 3. Exclusive Powerups (Full Game Only)
  The following five powerups are only available to players who own the Full Game, mostly due to the increased potential for making new discoveries with these cards, which incur additional AI costs:
  • Create – Enter a card name (up to 20 characters) to generate a brand new card with that name. This appears only once after the player beats round 100.
  • Transform – Transform a card into a random card that any player has discovered.
  • Transmogrify – Transform a card into a random card with the same magnitude (complexity) as the original, chosen from all cards any player has discovered.
  • Alchemist – Gives your New Discoveries a chance to spawn a Divide powerup.
  • Card Pack 6 – Adds a chance for any random card to appear in the card shop.

One-Time Purchase, No Subscriptions

The Full Game is a single $5 purchase that unlocks all current and future paid content tied to your account. There are no subscriptions, energy systems, or loot boxes — just a simple upgrade that helps keep the AI running and supports further development of Infinite Card.

You can purchase the Full Game from within Infinite Card through the in-game purchase screen.

Support the Game!

The use of the AI in this game costs money! If you like Infinite Card and would like to support us so we can continue funding the use of the AI and maybe even making more innovative games, please consider buying the full game or donating to us on Ko-fi. Your support means a lot to us thank you very much!

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About the Team

Special Thanks

• Thank you to everyone who provided input on game design, especially my friends Lade and Poobii who conceptualized some core game mechanics.
• And thanks to everyone who playtested this game and provided feedback. All contributions helped make this game what it is today.

References

Infinite Card was inspired by several games that utilized generative AI in a unique way. Here are some other innovative titles to check out:

• Infinite Craft - The first game to implement a fully AI automated game mechanic.
• What Beats Rock? - A fun game that introduced the use of Large Language Models as a battle mechanic.
• Jazz vs Waffles - By far the most complex and innovative use of AI in a game.