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New Match City
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A cooperative card game for making friends. Collect cards that represent your interests and disinterests, take turns guessing how you and another player feel about each card. Play now at newmatchcity.com!
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Welcome to New Match City, the friend finding collectable card game!

Collect cards that represent your interests and disinterests. Play with friends or new people to learn what people would love to talk about. Perfect for icebreaking, networking and friend-finding.

Play now at newmatchcity.com!
New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
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This month I've been working on improving rewards for playing my CCG. I'm adding an in-game currency earned by playing that is spent to get new cards.
Back end is working great. I'm currently working on fitting it into the UI.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New Match City is a two player collectable card game about discovering what other people are interested in talking about.
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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Deployed backend version 1.8.1

This fixes a rare bug when joining a lobby via direct URL.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Deployed schema version 1.19

This updates the NMC database to prepare for improved gameplay rewards. This does not affect gameplay.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Deployed website version 1.7.1
Deployed game engine version 1.7.1

Added several quality-of-life features to gameplay, including a visible game timer, a round indicator, gameplay help and new interactive elements.
Added new links to social media.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Deployed website version 1.7.0
Deployed game engine version 1.7.0
Deployed schema version 1.17

Players can now start a match without signing up, using a generated name and a provided deck. Also makes the "how to play" screen a little more fun.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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New feature for NMC is testing well. I'll be deploying tomorrow.
This will make it much easier for folks to play if they don't feel like signing up yet. I also added some more juice to the "How To Play" popup.
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Putting finishing touches on a new feature for New Match City. I'm making it much easier to play without signing up. I hope to be pushing this live early next week.
September 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Back to work today.
Got a lot of great feedback from PAX that I want to incorporate. I'm going to make the game even easier to play without signing up, and add some more instruction to walk people through their first game.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The first is one @ironohki.jer.art who is developing New Match City, a web-based card game. Very simple concept for an icebreaker, but it works surprisingly well, and it's browser-based so it's easily accessible anytime and anywhere. Actually kind of brilliant design in the simplicity.
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Deployed New Match City website version 1.6.3.
Deployed New Match City engine version 1.6.3.

Fixed a bug where invites and lobby codes should be case insensitive.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Deployed New Match City website version 1.6.2.
Deployed New Match City engine version 1.6.2.

This fixes some typos and UI bugs, adds a "Built With Colyseus" message, and adds occasional support reminds.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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In a few hours, I'm gonna be at PAX West telling people about the game I've been making on my own for two years.

I think it's ready.
I think people will like it.
I think nothing can break that I can't fix.

I think it's go time.

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August 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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I recorded a new "How To Play New Match City" video.
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How To Play New Match City
YouTube video by IronOhki
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August 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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20 days to PAX.
I really hope people like the thing I made.
I want making things to be my job forever.
August 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I just finished sending emails to hundreds of media folks who will be at PAX West. That sure would suck if I was a socially anxious person who spent 2 years making a game specifically to help with social interaction.
...but I got at least one confirmed interview!
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August 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New Match City will be exhibiting at PAX West 2025. Find us at Booth 660 in the Arch building.

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July 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Welcome to New Match City, the friend finding collectable card game!

Collect cards that represent your interests and disinterests. Play with friends or new people to learn what people would love to talk about. Perfect for icebreaking, networking and friend-finding.

Play now at newmatchcity.com!
New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Deployed New Match City website version 1.6.1.
Deployed New Match City engine version 1.6.1.
Deployed New Match City payment version 1.3.1.

This allows supporters and subscribers to create custom lobbies.

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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I have a stable release candidate for the next feature for New Match City. Gonna test it a little more, and likely release tomorrow. This will enable players who support the app to create their own custom NMC lobbies.
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New Match City
The Friend Finding Collectable Card Game.
newmatchcity.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM