Downloaded the Culdcept Saga demo for the 360. This game can best be described as Monopoly meets Magic: The Gathering, they fall in love, and this is the offspring of their consumated relationship. It can also be described as the slightly dumbed down version of what I'm trying to make. And I liked it, so it gives me hope for my own endeavor. The combat is a bit simplistic and the inability to look at your card text during battles, etc is annoying at times. I'll be buying the full version on Tuesday but unfortunately I already know that 500 cards won't keep me entertained for long. It's a great game to play through and see what does and doesn't work for my own research though. Not to mention it's helping to point out what should be in my tutorial.

Coding-wise, changed some things on the backend so menus work now. Created a "deck" that can be shuffled, drawn from, etc. Began implementing some more functionality in the back to help out with AI stuff. Yes, after playing the demo I realized that I will HAVE to have a single-player version for my own demo. Shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) for the demo since I'll already know what's in the demo decks and can code the few behaviors I'll need specific to those resources.