#supertype

Supertype, by Philipp Stollenmayer

#indiedev Interview: @rodrigocox of @SupertypeGames talking @ArenaGodsGame

ARENA GODS has been a constant at the past few PAX Easts we’ve been to, always drawing a crowd of gamers eager to duke it out against each other. It’s easily one of the best party games I’ve seen in recent years: it has a clearly recognizable art style, fast paced and chaotic combat that controls beautifully, and maps with enough freedom and opportunity to turn the tables of any combat in moments.

The point of the Tribal type is so that non-creature spells can have creature types, which are actually subtypes.

A card can’t just have any subtype. All subtypes are tied to a specific type or types, and only objects of that type can have an associated subtype.

For example, you can’t have a Creature - Forest, since Forest is a land type and not a creature type. To have the Forest subtype, the creature would also need to be a land.

So, to be able to grant creature type to non-creature spells, Tribal needs to share the list of creature types with the Creature type.

Tribal isn’t a supertype because supertypes can’t have associated lists of subtypes. Only types can have associated lists of subtypes.

Therefore, Tribal is a type so that it can share the same list of subtypes with the Creature type, and these subtypes are called “creature types”.