Oatear Cider

Unleash your creativity and bring your card game ideas to life! Oatear Cider is the ultimate studio for designing, prototyping, and playtesting professional-quality game cards. Tired of choosing between overly complex software with a steep learning curve and restrictive graphical tools that limit your vision? Oatear Cider gives you the best of both worlds, combining a powerful, data-driven workflow with the familiar templating languages of the web. If you know HTML and CSS, you already know how to design in Cider. KEY FEATURES: Powerful HTML & CSS Templating Build completely custom card layouts using HTML and CSS. Use Handlebars for advanced logic, like conditionally showing an element or looping through a list of icons. Data-Driven by Design Separate your game's content from its presentation. Manage all your card attributes (title, art, description, stats) in a simple, tabular interface. Update hundreds of cards at once by simply changing your template or data. Perfect for balancing and rapid iteration! Instant Playtesting with the Game Simulator Why wait to print? Test your game instantly within the app! The built-in game simulator lets you shuffle decks, draw cards, discard, flip coins, roll dice, and place tokens. Get a real feel for your game's flow and make adjustments on the fly, saving you time and money on physical prototypes. Professional & Flexible Exports When you're ready to go physical, export your cards as individual PNG files or generate print-ready PDF sheets. Customize paper size, margins, and spacing, and even use a low-ink mode for quick test prints. Ready to play online with friends? Export your cards to a format compatible with virtual tabletop platforms. Your Workflow, Your Files Manage your entire project as a simple directory of files (.html, .css, .csv) that you can edit with your favorite external tools. Your work is your own. Everything is saved locally on your machine. PERFECT FOR: - Indie Board Game Designers - Tabletop RPG Creators - Developers and Hobbyists wanting to prototype a new game concept - Anyone who wants full creative control over their card design process Download Oatear Cider today and start building the game you've always imagined.