TCG Log #22 - I stole Pokemon's website
🤝 Glassmorphism meets TCG
gm Anon!
Ever heard this one:
"Good artists copy, great artists steal"—Pablo Picasso
Well then, call me a great artist 😎
Below are all the websites I “stole” from to make our new website!
👉 View it here
How I cooked 👨🍳
When I design - whether it’s art, games, or websites - I’m basically raiding the internet’s pantry and throwing the tastiest bits into one pot.
Ingredient 1 🍌 Pokémon TCG Website
I really loved their header section, and the animated card is super sleek (I'd love to add that too, but cut for now).
Ingredient 2 🍹 Glassmorphism
Glassmorphism is a web design aesthetic that uses translucent, frosted-glass elements that create a sense of depth and dimensionality—popularized heavily throughout 2021 due to its sleek, modern aesthetics.
I haven’t seen it used by games. And I knew my AI coding agent could easily make it look nice 👌
Ingredient 3 🥩 Magic the Gathering
While I'm super inspired by much of what Magic does, I was underwhelmed by their website.
However, their glowing orange button was very sexy - such a nice hover animation!
So I stole it 🤗
Bad ingredients…
It's worth noting many trading card games have surprisingly weak websites. Yu-Gi-Oh’s site is uninspiring and low res.
Even League of Legends' new Riftbound site, despite having polished art, felt very plain.
Final flavors 🍲
Put the ingredients together, and I was happy with the flavor 👨🍳 but it's your opinion that counts!
👉 so hit the landing page, wiggle the window, tell me if anything breaks.
As an artist, it’s hard to ever feel something's truly "done," but as an entrepreneur, I'm learning that "done enough" beats perfection every time. I felt that tension a lot during the website building.
Here’s the process I followed to make this website (including mistakes made).
Also, briefly:
✅ Continued talks with a new distributor and manufacturer + got my hands on physical prototypes.
✅ Started presenting decks to potential sponsors.
✅ Spent some weekend time updating the World App with daily claimable cards. Aiming for an official release in July.
Thanks for reading and for cheering on this indie-dev roller-coaster. Until next week—keep iterating, keep shipping, and remember:
every great work starts with existing ingredients 🥨
—Colton
p.s. ChadGPT 🔥