There's more than enough distractions on the internet. Hours of your day disappear before you can even realise what you might be losing. Occasionally though, there's something pretty cool to explore.
Introducing: Wikigacha
Wikigacha the Wikipedia Gacha Trading Card Game is a new free web browser game from Japanese developer Harusugi. You open packs, and pull 5 random cards. Easy!
Every single page on Wikipedia has its own card, meaning that there's millions to collect. They're assigned ratings of C, UC, R, SR, SSR, UR, LR based on the quality assessment of the page. Each card also has an Attack based the amount of views a page recieves in relation to its rarity, and a defense based on the length of the article.
After every 10 packs you can open an Gold Pack which guarantees rarer cards, and its easy to access more packs to open. Every minute a timer lets you open a new one, filling up to 10 at a time. You can also complete small tasks like opening Wikipedia or watching an ad for more packs quickly.
(all screenshots in this article are from my own collection of cards)
Due to how these stats are calculated, it's very unlikely to have any card with higher attack than defense. In 550 cards I'm yet to encounter one, with the closest ratio being this:
(before 1979, could those stats have been postal codes in Singapore?)
Gameplay
Believe it or not, there is more to do than ripping packs. Once you've accumulated a reasonable collection of cards, you can start attempting combat modes with them.
Single Random Battle
Deploy one of your cards and see how they manage in a 1 on 1 face off with a random card of a chosen rarity. Damage is turn based and calculated from the attack and defense. If the battle doesn't end in 30 turns the card with the higher remaining HP wins!
Team Battles
Pick 5 cards at a time to go up against another 5. In Survival Matches you utilise your entire HP pool in back to back battles until a whole team is wiped out. Alternatively, Star Matches have you play a Best Of 5 set where each card takes part in one battle, playing for the first team to reach 5 wins.
Daily Raid Battle
Deploy as many cards as you need to take down a Raid Boss with a massive HP pool. You won't win quickly, and your cards can't be reused, but the Boss' HP won't recover throughout the day. With my first pulls, it took me 314 cards of all rarities to take down Anthony Davis of the Lakers.
Cool Pulls
To me, the most fun element of this game is seeing what interesting and funny pages you come across, similar to the satisfaction of clicking the 'Random Article' tab on ordinary Wikipedia.
Charles Holden, London Underground Architect was the first LR card I pulled. It seems like every LR has a rating of 100.
There's certainly correlation between rarity and stats as longer pages will be verified and tweaked and score well on the quality assessment ranking, but rarer cards aren't consistently better. The most powerful card I have is Ferrari, which is only an SSR.
Here are some that I just found entertaining:
Wales Mentioned!
I like these bands
Legendary Brachiopod
The link to the site is wikigacha.com if you want to try it out yourself, just be careful if you have other things to do today!
Also I don't really know what to promote off of this so just check out our new general TCG landing page The Card Collection
