Services

What can First Pick Games do for you?

Let's get two big ones out of the way: We're not artists, and we're not software developers. (We will make life easier for your artists and software developers, though!) We can help your project with almost anything else you need. Here is a partial list:

Game design and editing for trading card games and other similar projects

• Create primary system design
• Create an initial card set, or an expansion set, or an 18-month card release roadmap
• Create art descriptions for your art director and/or external artists
• Design a setting for your game that enables great storytelling and emergent gameplay
• Text-edit every card, rulebook, and website for grammar (American English or Commonwealth English)
• Gameplay-check every card, rulebook, and website for short- and long-term sustainability
• Playtest your existing game, expansion, or side product
• Rarity balance for both constucted and sealed / draft / specality format play

Business design for digital TCGs (whether traditional or player-owned / NFTs)

• Sanity check your business design against past, current, and likely future trends. This is an essential service we provide.
• Create free-to-play pathways for your digital game
• Create high-value, low-production-cost entry points for your physical game
• In-game currencies (digital) and reward programs (physical)
• Recurrent play aka "battle pass"
• Personal expression through game pieces — through frame treatments, card "skins", playmat design, trinkets, toys, emotes, banners, and other similar methods
• "Design for a Decade" philosophy, where we have long-term goals in mind while also creating short-term revenue.
• Pricing for products, currencies, experiences, and big tournaments.

Written content

• Tutorial creation, both the words and the on-screen (or in-rulebook) layout best-suited for new players
• Strategy articles creation, to help new players, casual fans, and dedicated competitors all get closer to your game
• Rulebook creation, just the text or all the way up to final layout production

Consulting for blockchain projects

We are best described as "loyal skeptics" towards NFT projects. We're proud of the work done on Gods Unchained, a game with actual fun and actual value for its players. Most NFT projects barely consider the players and only consider the hardcore crypto airdrop mindset. We can't help you with that. But we can, and have, made games featuring digital property for decades. If you want a AAA-approach to your web3 game, and are willing to not focus solely on short-term revenue, give us a call.