Finish Line: Card Race

3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Cards And Dice

inish Line is a multi-player card game conceived by Alan Donnelly and I in the summer of 2006. Alan and I wanted to create a game that could by made evergreen by using Hot Wheels mainline cars for a collectible card game. Brian Yu and Tyler Kenny in Mattel’s Game Design department informed us that the biggest mistake we could make when designing a collectible card game would be to make any one card more valuable than any other. With that in-mind, we devised a way to use all the Hot Wheels cars, but differentiate them by scoring each for how they would handle on dirt or pavement. Every card would have different values that added-up to 100. We also created hazards and bonuses that could be played and collected. The game appears on this list because it was one of the most rewarding pure “game design” experiences in which I’ve ever had the pleasure of taking part.

Alan Donnelly

Card Game