So I was an ex PTCGO player, currently playing Pocket version and wanted to get back into playing the physical card games. But before trying out the new cards (which currently I see that it's not yet up-to-date), I wanted to try out the deck I used to play on Expanded format back on PTCGO, which uses Tapu Lele and Martial Arts Dojo (I don't quite remember if I actually have Tapu Lele GX on my deck or not). But when I tried it, when Martial Arts Dojo was put in play, the AI would get stuck activating the stadium over and over and over again. And when I put Tapu Lele GX on my bench and use the ability, it crashed the program completely. Other than those 2 issues, I haven't tried other cards yet, but it's been an enjoyable experience so far.
Which cards aren't up to date? I'm pretty sure I've got everything currently out, unless I forgot to enable something again. It looks like Lele GX isn't crashing on its own, so it's probably something to do with that stadium in play at the same time, I'll definitely look into it. Same with the AI issue, I thought I had it skipping stadiums with passive effects. Thank you for bringing this up, and I'm glad you like this.
About the “cards aren’t up to date” thing, I think I was mistaken. I just didn’t know how to search for certain cards. But I still think Lele GX sometimes causes the game to crash when I use its ability, even if I haven’t played the stadium. I also noticed Professor’s Research occasionally discards my hand but doesn’t draw 7 cards. Might just be me tho.
I also tried using the new Mega Charizard ex, but no matter how many Fire Energy cards I discarded, it kept saying I dealt 0 damage.
One suggestion after playing for a while: could you add a clearer indicator for selected cards? For example, highlighting them or show a checkmark. I often can’t tell whether I’ve already clicked a card or if I haven’t selected anything yet.
Curious, since the "Read me" is very vague. It says to just put the card files directly into the Resources folder, which I did (and even unzipped the folders in case that was necessary) but it doesn't seem to be working.
The PDT.zip has a few images of how the Resources folder should look. The Resources folder will have the un-zipped 05, 06, 07, etc. folders inside of it. I thought I had the Read Me clear enough, but I probably should explain a bit further in it.
Okay, I got it to work, but is it supposed to crash when you lose? I lost due to a lack of Pokemon on the bench, and my opponent still had prize cards, but it just closed the window for some reason.
Yes, I was playing against the AI, and it closed the window right after knocking out one of my Pokemon. It still had multiple prize cards, but my bench was empty.
I can't seem to get the same crash. Do you remember which pokemon the AI had in play, and which pokemon was your last one in play? It may be an ability or some other interaction causing the crash.
Great app! Thanks for making it! FYI, AI is getting stuck on gardevoir ex's ability. Also do you think there might be a way to integrate an LLM like chatGPT into the game to play as the AI?
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. I've got the Gardevoir issue written down now, I'll see what the problem is. It's probably crashing on something, there's still a few parts of the AI I haven't fully finished. I have no idea if I could even integrate something like chatGPT into this, at least without re-writing most of the AI code I've already got. I could at least check into it.
As for the image quality, I've been bugged about it too, but it's how Godot handles images. Godot heavily prefers all game assets to be inside the project itself. The screenshots were when the images were being loaded that way, which caused the main PDT game file to be 8 GB or more in size as it had every image file inside of it. I ended up changing it to load all the image files externally, as I needed to do that to handle loading custom cards anyways, plus it helps reduce the file size for each time a new set came out, since not everyone has fast internet and 8 GB is a large download every 2-3 months. I've had it on my to-do list to see if I can fix the image quality for a while, so I'll try this again soon.
Sorry it took so long, but I got the Gardevoir ex fixed. It had a whole chain of issues that needed fixing, including the Scream Tail not working when the AI used it, but it should be good now. So go ahead and re-download it.
And here I thought Mega didn't have limits, it's the whole reason I didn't just do it through Google Drive or something. I'll include it as another download link, but here's the link as well.
It looks like when I changed the Database to be created as the game loads, it stopped updating or even including the custom cards. I swear I checked that it was still working even with that change, but clearly not. Creating them and even playing with existing ones work just fine, so at least I know where to start looking to fix this. Hopefully I can get it corrected quickly. Until then, you can actually just edit the [deckname].txt to include the custom card, just add a temp card like a basic energy card at the end, then open the [deckname].txt and replace the temp cards with the custom card's file name, the 3401001 or whatever you've saved it as.
Is there a way to import decklists? I think a simple dictionary that converts the likes of 'Octillery BKT 33' into '0601043' would do the trick if it's not implemented yet
(ptcgsim has a nice collection of exportable decks for each year, wh I'd love to be able to import and play against for variety)
It's on my To-Do list, I just haven't gotten to it yet. You can currently copy/paste from the .txt files in the Decks folder, but I do want to have an in game option for it. I'm also unsure how I'd want to handle it specifically, as I'd want it to be more than just the card's filename, like you've said. Thinking about it... all I would need is the set and card number and I could get the filename from that... well, guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow.
Well, that took a few days longer than I thought it would, but it's done, the PDT has a deck Importer/Exporter, so re-download and try it out. It even works for custom cards.
That's because I had that setting disabled, as I never looked into getting the game itself to scale with the window size, and this was the lazy option I chose, which really wasn't the best. Try redownloading it now, there's a new menu on the main screen labeled 'Window Size:' that has a few different sizes you can pick, and see if any of those help. I can also add in more sizes if necessary.
Not see some of the pictures of the cards selected in the deck builder. This is problematic because I need certain variations of certain cards in my deck. What should I do?
That's probably because you didn't get all the card image files, which isn't your fault, I apparently got a bit lazy with error handling, as the Database will still create the cards even if the images aren't available, so if you redownload the PDT.zip, that part should be fixed.
You've also shown me how lazy I was with the Database, I hadn't even considered that it may be super slow to build on older computers. The Database is currently built once you go into the Deck Editor, Card Database, or Inspire Me tabs, as they all need it, but once you leave the Deck Builder menu, it clears out the Database completely and then has to be refilled, since you could create some cards, then go back into the Deck Builder and it would need to be refilled otherwise the new cards wouldn't show up. I do have an idea on fixing that part, but at some point, the whole Database needs to be created, which will need nearly 11,000 cards to be created, although less when I fix the issue if you don't have all the card images. I'll definitely get working on fixing these issues, though.
I've also updated the Read Me.txt to try to be a little more clear on the file structure necessary, which is probably just telling me I need better/more error messages implemented.
I currently only have what the Expanded format covers, which is every card from the start of Gen 5 and newer, so I don't have any Gen 1 cards yet. Although you could very easily make the card yourself, the Custom Card Maker could handle it for now.
And thank you, I've been off and on working on this for a bit over 4 years now, I'm glad that it's not just me getting good use out of the PDT.
It's currently working just fine for me. It does have a small load time when you click it as it builds the card database, which does lock it up until it's done. What are the rough specs of your computer?
It locks up as soon as I click it. It also locks up when I click the card database. I wonder if it's because my laptop is kinda a potato and has trouble running Firefox and Zoom simultaneously. Here's my rig
Overview
Computer model: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook Folio 9480m
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (10.0, Build 19045)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4310U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2/4 0.0v
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 22DA
RAM: 8 GB
Hard disk: KingFast (238.5 GB/Fixed hard disk media)
Graphics card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (1 GB)
Monitor1: LG Display LGD048B (1366x768 / 13.9 Inch)
Monitor2: HPN HP 24mh (1920x1080 / 24 Inch)
Sound card1: Krisp Audio
Sound card2: Realtek High Definition Audio
Sound card3: Intel(R) Display Audio
Keyboard1: HID Keyboard Device
Keyboard2: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard for HP Hotkey Support
Mice1: Synaptics SMBus TouchPad
Mice2: HID-compliant mouse
Audio1: Krisp Audio
Audio2: Realtek High Definition Audio
Audio3: Intel(R) Display Audio
Camera: HP HD Webcam.
When I tried it, I only had 9th Gen cards downloaded. Also, just to confirm, I do need to extract the cards to use them in the resources tab, correct? If so, that's not the problem right now but they are supposed to not be extracted that may be an issue
I fixed the problem by switching to a more powerful computer. I now have the issue of not being able to test the built in deck though. Also are there any gen 1 card download that I might have missed? I want to add gust of wind. Does the program only have standard cards? Btw looking over the whole program I can clearly see how much effort you put into this and it looks amazing!
I try to load the Blastoise v decks and it gives me a message that I am missing 0800101 which is Blastoise v. I have The file containing that loaded into the resources folder. It is extracted. The weirdest part about it is that I can find it in the database. It just won't load it.
Okay I figured it out. When you extract file it gives you 0# files in the path. You need to remove one of the files from the path or it won't recognize it correctly. Currently I don't have any other problems with it. I'll let you know if I do. Amazing game!
It's a never say never situation, but likely not. I know Godot has the option of exporting for Android, but I'd probably have to re-do most of the UI to fit a phone screen, and I don't know if Godot can handle finger tapping the same as mouse clicking, among other potential issues. So maybe eventually, but I'd need to look into it more before committing to it.
Try redownloading it now, I think I got it. It was missing a parameter for the evolution check, but it's there now. I thought I got them all, but that's what I get for testing with a deck that only has basics.
Alright cool, I also found a couple issues in the tester - When there's an ability or card that lets you choose more than 2 or more cards from your deck, but you only have 1 to choose from, you can't just choose the 1. Example, Forretress EX Ability, I only had 4 grass energy in the deck and it just soft locks me - When I don't use the AI functionality and play both hands, in the case where I can use Forretress to attach 5 energy to my bench pokemon, I can't seem to attach any energy for my Player 2, but it works fine with player 1
So it turns out a fix I tried broke more things, go figure. Pretty sure the soft lock issue was because of a layering issue, where you weren't able to click the Done button if there was a sprite underneath it, meaning if you had 3 or more benched pokemon, the sprite would override the button click and just not continue processing. The Player 2 issue is because I work on functionality with Player 1, when copy/paste the completed code to Player 2, and I've occasionally forgotten to do that, so there may be more spots like that, but hopefully this one is good now. Go ahead and try it again and see if I got it, I was testing specifically with Forretress EX, and everything was working right.
Yes, there's a Read Me.txt in the PDT.zip file. Basically, everything in that zip needs to be kept in the same directory, then the folders from the other .zips are just put into the Resources folder as is.
The PDT.zip contains the game and Basic Energy cards, then each of the others are each generation of cards separated out, so if you don't want to play with the older cards, you could just download the 08 and 09 zips for just standard. It's a way to help avoid needing to download too much at once. There's a Read Me.txt with details in the PDT.zip as well.
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So I was an ex PTCGO player, currently playing Pocket version and wanted to get back into playing the physical card games. But before trying out the new cards (which currently I see that it's not yet up-to-date), I wanted to try out the deck I used to play on Expanded format back on PTCGO, which uses Tapu Lele and Martial Arts Dojo (I don't quite remember if I actually have Tapu Lele GX on my deck or not). But when I tried it, when Martial Arts Dojo was put in play, the AI would get stuck activating the stadium over and over and over again. And when I put Tapu Lele GX on my bench and use the ability, it crashed the program completely. Other than those 2 issues, I haven't tried other cards yet, but it's been an enjoyable experience so far.
Which cards aren't up to date? I'm pretty sure I've got everything currently out, unless I forgot to enable something again. It looks like Lele GX isn't crashing on its own, so it's probably something to do with that stadium in play at the same time, I'll definitely look into it. Same with the AI issue, I thought I had it skipping stadiums with passive effects. Thank you for bringing this up, and I'm glad you like this.
About the “cards aren’t up to date” thing, I think I was mistaken. I just didn’t know how to search for certain cards. But I still think Lele GX sometimes causes the game to crash when I use its ability, even if I haven’t played the stadium. I also noticed Professor’s Research occasionally discards my hand but doesn’t draw 7 cards. Might just be me tho.
I also tried using the new Mega Charizard ex, but no matter how many Fire Energy cards I discarded, it kept saying I dealt 0 damage.
One suggestion after playing for a while: could you add a clearer indicator for selected cards? For example, highlighting them or show a checkmark. I often can’t tell whether I’ve already clicked a card or if I haven’t selected anything yet.
Curious, since the "Read me" is very vague. It says to just put the card files directly into the Resources folder, which I did (and even unzipped the folders in case that was necessary) but it doesn't seem to be working.
The PDT.zip has a few images of how the Resources folder should look. The Resources folder will have the un-zipped 05, 06, 07, etc. folders inside of it. I thought I had the Read Me clear enough, but I probably should explain a bit further in it.
Okay, I got it to work, but is it supposed to crash when you lose? I lost due to a lack of Pokemon on the bench, and my opponent still had prize cards, but it just closed the window for some reason.
Definitely not. You were playing against the AI, yes?
Yes, I was playing against the AI, and it closed the window right after knocking out one of my Pokemon. It still had multiple prize cards, but my bench was empty.
I can't seem to get the same crash. Do you remember which pokemon the AI had in play, and which pokemon was your last one in play? It may be an ability or some other interaction causing the crash.
Great app! Thanks for making it! FYI, AI is getting stuck on gardevoir ex's ability. Also do you think there might be a way to integrate an LLM like chatGPT into the game to play as the AI?
Also, for some reason the quality of the image in the app is a lot more fuzzy for me than the screenshots you provided. Any idea why?
Thank you, I'm glad you like it. I've got the Gardevoir issue written down now, I'll see what the problem is. It's probably crashing on something, there's still a few parts of the AI I haven't fully finished. I have no idea if I could even integrate something like chatGPT into this, at least without re-writing most of the AI code I've already got. I could at least check into it.
As for the image quality, I've been bugged about it too, but it's how Godot handles images. Godot heavily prefers all game assets to be inside the project itself. The screenshots were when the images were being loaded that way, which caused the main PDT game file to be 8 GB or more in size as it had every image file inside of it. I ended up changing it to load all the image files externally, as I needed to do that to handle loading custom cards anyways, plus it helps reduce the file size for each time a new set came out, since not everyone has fast internet and 8 GB is a large download every 2-3 months. I've had it on my to-do list to see if I can fix the image quality for a while, so I'll try this again soon.
Sorry it took so long, but I got the Gardevoir ex fixed. It had a whole chain of issues that needed fixing, including the Scream Tail not working when the AI used it, but it should be good now. So go ahead and re-download it.
can you send the GEN files to google drive or any other drive? i can only download up to 1.5 GB in mega so that mean i cant download others gens :(
And here I thought Mega didn't have limits, it's the whole reason I didn't just do it through Google Drive or something. I'll include it as another download link, but here's the link as well.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_BBnYGkP-fMr0qdwbg4EXNQmrEreF7iq?usp=sha...
everytime i save a card in custom card it simply dont appear in the deck editor or card database.
but it creates a folder in resource, like 34 or 35 that has the card in there
It looks like when I changed the Database to be created as the game loads, it stopped updating or even including the custom cards. I swear I checked that it was still working even with that change, but clearly not. Creating them and even playing with existing ones work just fine, so at least I know where to start looking to fix this. Hopefully I can get it corrected quickly. Until then, you can actually just edit the [deckname].txt to include the custom card, just add a temp card like a basic energy card at the end, then open the [deckname].txt and replace the temp cards with the custom card's file name, the 3401001 or whatever you've saved it as.
Thx
It's fixed and updated, thank you for bringing that up. Go ahead and redownload it for the fix.
Is there a way to import decklists? I think a simple dictionary that converts the likes of 'Octillery BKT 33' into '0601043' would do the trick if it's not implemented yet
(ptcgsim has a nice collection of exportable decks for each year, wh I'd love to be able to import and play against for variety)
It's on my To-Do list, I just haven't gotten to it yet. You can currently copy/paste from the .txt files in the Decks folder, but I do want to have an in game option for it. I'm also unsure how I'd want to handle it specifically, as I'd want it to be more than just the card's filename, like you've said. Thinking about it... all I would need is the set and card number and I could get the filename from that... well, guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow.
Well, that took a few days longer than I thought it would, but it's done, the PDT has a deck Importer/Exporter, so re-download and try it out. It even works for custom cards.
I cant resize the window, so It dont show my hand
That's because I had that setting disabled, as I never looked into getting the game itself to scale with the window size, and this was the lazy option I chose, which really wasn't the best. Try redownloading it now, there's a new menu on the main screen labeled 'Window Size:' that has a few different sizes you can pick, and see if any of those help. I can also add in more sizes if necessary.
Ok
Not see some of the pictures of the cards selected in the deck builder. This is problematic because I need certain variations of certain cards in my deck. What should I do?
That's probably because you didn't get all the card image files, which isn't your fault, I apparently got a bit lazy with error handling, as the Database will still create the cards even if the images aren't available, so if you redownload the PDT.zip, that part should be fixed.
You've also shown me how lazy I was with the Database, I hadn't even considered that it may be super slow to build on older computers. The Database is currently built once you go into the Deck Editor, Card Database, or Inspire Me tabs, as they all need it, but once you leave the Deck Builder menu, it clears out the Database completely and then has to be refilled, since you could create some cards, then go back into the Deck Builder and it would need to be refilled otherwise the new cards wouldn't show up. I do have an idea on fixing that part, but at some point, the whole Database needs to be created, which will need nearly 11,000 cards to be created, although less when I fix the issue if you don't have all the card images. I'll definitely get working on fixing these issues, though.
I've also updated the Read Me.txt to try to be a little more clear on the file structure necessary, which is probably just telling me I need better/more error messages implemented.
I currently only have what the Expanded format covers, which is every card from the start of Gen 5 and newer, so I don't have any Gen 1 cards yet. Although you could very easily make the card yourself, the Custom Card Maker could handle it for now.
And thank you, I've been off and on working on this for a bit over 4 years now, I'm glad that it's not just me getting good use out of the PDT.
Every time I click Create Deck the game freezes and stops responding. Did I do something wrong?
It's currently working just fine for me. It does have a small load time when you click it as it builds the card database, which does lock it up until it's done. What are the rough specs of your computer?
It locks up as soon as I click it. It also locks up when I click the card database. I wonder if it's because my laptop is kinda a potato and has trouble running Firefox and Zoom simultaneously. Here's my rig
Overview
Computer model: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook Folio 9480m
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Home (10.0, Build 19045)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4310U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2/4 0.0v
Motherboard: Hewlett-Packard 22DA
RAM: 8 GB
Hard disk: KingFast (238.5 GB/Fixed hard disk media)
Graphics card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (1 GB)
Monitor1: LG Display LGD048B (1366x768 / 13.9 Inch)
Monitor2: HPN HP 24mh (1920x1080 / 24 Inch)
Sound card1: Krisp Audio
Sound card2: Realtek High Definition Audio
Sound card3: Intel(R) Display Audio
Keyboard1: HID Keyboard Device
Keyboard2: Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard for HP Hotkey Support
Mice1: Synaptics SMBus TouchPad
Mice2: HID-compliant mouse
Audio1: Krisp Audio
Audio2: Realtek High Definition Audio
Audio3: Intel(R) Display Audio
Camera: HP HD Webcam.
When I tried it, I only had 9th Gen cards downloaded. Also, just to confirm, I do need to extract the cards to use them in the resources tab, correct? If so, that's not the problem right now but they are supposed to not be extracted that may be an issue
I fixed the problem by switching to a more powerful computer. I now have the issue of not being able to test the built in deck though. Also are there any gen 1 card download that I might have missed? I want to add gust of wind. Does the program only have standard cards? Btw looking over the whole program I can clearly see how much effort you put into this and it looks amazing!
I try to load the Blastoise v decks and it gives me a message that I am missing 0800101 which is Blastoise v. I have The file containing that loaded into the resources folder. It is extracted. The weirdest part about it is that I can find it in the database. It just won't load it.
Okay I figured it out. When you extract file it gives you 0# files in the path. You need to remove one of the files from the path or it won't recognize it correctly. Currently I don't have any other problems with it. I'll let you know if I do. Amazing game!
Can you make a simpler version for Android?
It's a never say never situation, but likely not. I know Godot has the option of exporting for Android, but I'd probably have to re-do most of the UI to fit a phone screen, and I don't know if Godot can handle finger tapping the same as mouse clicking, among other potential issues. So maybe eventually, but I'd need to look into it more before committing to it.
I've been trying to use the AI feature but it seems to always crash a few second after its turn
Try redownloading it now, I think I got it. It was missing a parameter for the evolution check, but it's there now. I thought I got them all, but that's what I get for testing with a deck that only has basics.
Alright cool, I also found a couple issues in the tester
- When there's an ability or card that lets you choose more than 2 or more cards from your deck, but you only have 1 to choose from, you can't just choose the 1. Example, Forretress EX Ability, I only had 4 grass energy in the deck and it just soft locks me
- When I don't use the AI functionality and play both hands, in the case where I can use Forretress to attach 5 energy to my bench pokemon, I can't seem to attach any energy for my Player 2, but it works fine with player 1
So it turns out a fix I tried broke more things, go figure. Pretty sure the soft lock issue was because of a layering issue, where you weren't able to click the Done button if there was a sprite underneath it, meaning if you had 3 or more benched pokemon, the sprite would override the button click and just not continue processing. The Player 2 issue is because I work on functionality with Player 1, when copy/paste the completed code to Player 2, and I've occasionally forgotten to do that, so there may be more spots like that, but hopefully this one is good now. Go ahead and try it again and see if I got it, I was testing specifically with Forretress EX, and everything was working right.
cant make it recognize the cards in the resource file, is there any guide to installation?
Yes, there's a Read Me.txt in the PDT.zip file. Basically, everything in that zip needs to be kept in the same directory, then the folders from the other .zips are just put into the Resources folder as is.
looks good i dont know which one to downloa
The PDT.zip contains the game and Basic Energy cards, then each of the others are each generation of cards separated out, so if you don't want to play with the older cards, you could just download the 08 and 09 zips for just standard. It's a way to help avoid needing to download too much at once. There's a Read Me.txt with details in the PDT.zip as well.
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