About This Game

What is Manacaster?

Manacaster is a tabletop card-battle game for two players.  It was designed with an emphasis on balanced gameplay and rewarding skillful play.  Here are three things you should know about our game:

Balanced Gameplay = Brilliant Victories:  The Power and Mana Cost of every single card and ability in Manacaster is carefully calibrated according to a strict mathematical algorithm, leading to intense, evenly-matched battles that keep you on the edge of your seat until the final moment of victory...or defeat.

Digital + Tabletop = Play Your Way:  We have built a digital clone of the tabletop edition of Manacaster which plays identically.  Ensuring a consistent experience between digital and physical was a top priority as we designed and streamlined our game's rules. 

Streamlined Gameplay = Rewarding Skillful Players:  In Manacaster, your ability as a player is the most important factor.  For example, players are given a large set of choices when selecting their starting hand, both players deploy a Mana resource of their choice every single turn, but only one player can attack the other.

Keep reading to discover what other game mechanics have been designed to ensure your strategic decisions are more important than luck of the draw.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

How, Where, and Why We Use AI

As a technology company, our mandate is to use the best tools available to us as engineers. Considering none of us can draw, and believe me, we've _taken_ art lessons, we feel that AI image generators are a miracle that allows a small group of engineers to make big, exciting things.

Our goal is to build a rich, immersive world that stands on its own merit. Therefore, the card browser on Manacaster.com allows any visitor to report illustrations that might have erroneously passed our internal quality control. When we receive a report for an image, we review it and if appropriate, act immediately.

In summary, we use AI-generated images to illustrate our game cards and create decorative elements like website buttons. We also use industry-standard tools such as various large language models for language tasks like localization, proofreading assistance, and code completion. We currently do not use any AI tools for music.