Hycia: An Oceanic Card Game
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Hycia: An Oceanic Card Game
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Bluesky page for Hycia: the fun strategy-based card game set in a world inspired by our own oceans. Follow to stay updated as progress develops, and be sure to share with your friends if you like what you see!
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New card formatting, a new gameplay formula, and new character art, be sure to follow all the updates of Hycia as development on the card game continues!

www.hyciahub.com

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4 characters with strong fighting spirits. Pumilvian has been around for a while, but I wanted to re-illustrate him with a more confident pose.

Meet the whole cast:
www.hyciahub.com

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May 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Happy mother's day from the world of Hycia! Horsennie and her daughter Pygnia are inseparable, so they get to share a single card💗

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May 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The roster is halfway finished, totaling a collection of 115 unique Hycians! To celebrate, the last two characters of this first half are something special. Meet Hycianus and Hethys: gods of the Two Kingdoms!

www.hyciahub.com

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May 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A smaller update than usual for this week, but some big new characters will be introduced next week to celebrate the roster being halfway completed! Stay tuned until then!

www.hyciahub.com

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April 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I wanted to go with a very colorful approach in bringing this wide variety of cichlids into the world of Hycia. If you want to read up on their character bios, check out Hycia's website to meet the full cast!

www.hyciahub.com

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April 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Happy (late) Easter! I wish I were able to be a bit more productive, but the most I can offer tonight is this preview of the next batch of characters I’m working on. I hope to have this colorful crew all done at some point later today
April 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Here with another week's worth of characters and cards. The theme I went with this week was "tiny and giant Hycians." Weekly updates will now come out on Sundays

www.hyciahub.com

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April 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Happy Friday! It's been an intense week, but I'm happy to be able to debut 4 more characters. Please consider sharing, and visit the website to meet the whole cast!

www.hyciahub.com

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April 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Happy Friday, I have some more Hycian characters ready to debut. 2 of the 4 aren’t fully illustrated yet, so I’ll make an updated post tomorrow when they’re done. For now I hope you enjoy the preview and reading their bios.

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March 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Doing my best to get back to making progress on Hycia, and that means working to make 4 new characters a week again. Here’s this week’s batch (including a Commerson's Dolphin ><).

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March 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
New card formatting, a new gameplay formula, and new character art, be sure to follow all the updates of Hycia as development on the card game continues!

www.hyciahub.com

#cardgame #tabletopgames #indiegame #kickstartercampaign #crowdfunding #marinebiology #fish #characterdesign #hyciacardgame
March 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It was tough to work on creating characters because I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to alter the actual gameplay. Hopefully I’ll have new renders of what I’m thinking for re-formatted cards

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January 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Happy Friday! For this week’s batch, I decided to include an example of an Event Card, another important part of Hycia as a card game. They can have lots of unique and powerful effects!

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January 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Sorry for the hiatus from posting new Hycians these past few weeks. The holiday season and traveling left me in a position where I was unable to get any work done. I’ll be back to posting 4 new characters for the game every week starting this Friday!
January 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Lots of colorful and impactful additions to Hycia's roster for this week's batch of characters. It was super enjoyable making every single one of these guys, I can't pick out a favorite!

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December 21, 2024 at 4:29 AM
It’s Friday, and now that getting the beta of Hycia finished I’m back to making weekly character updates. Share if you recognize any of the aquatic animals of inspiration from this week 💙

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December 14, 2024 at 4:52 AM
I know it’s been a few weeks since I disappeared from posting my weekly updates, but that’s because I’ve finally managed to finish getting a printed beta of the game delivered!

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December 6, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Hope everyone had a happy Halloween. This week as a big update the world of Hycia has some spooky new characters to add to its roster, 2 more than usual this week!
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November 2, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Happy (late) Halloween! I made a full 6-batch of characters this week all inspired by everything spooky-season, from witches, to werewolves, to bats and vampires, even killers from slasher flicks!

I’ll post more on them including their bios tomorrow 🧡💜
November 1, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Week 6 of updates:

Making some changes to the card formatting. Be sure to see the full encyclopedia on the main website, it’s been updated!

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October 26, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Friday Updates: Week 5

I’ve been formatting every card so that printing and playtesting can begin soon! I want to work hard to make sure this game feels fun!

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October 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
I made an illustration of the planet Hycia, plus wrote a little bit about the inspiration behind its design and world of the card game as a whole!

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October 19, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Week 4, with this batch done the character roster now totals at 60, that means we’re a quarter of the way through developing the cast for the card game! ><

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October 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Friday Updates: Week 3

A bigger focus on the River Kingdom with this batch. In other news the gameplay manual is refined and finalized! Working on a visual presentation, but for now you can read up on how to play the game here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM
A closer look at the designs for the card backs. Hycia is a game involving multiple types of cards, so it’s important they all look distinct while at the same time feel unified
October 4, 2024 at 4:20 AM