Talk:Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards

How many?
".....must destroy your opponent's islands." How many opponents? More than one?

I wasn't sure how much detail to go into, but I'll cover this.

Guilds have up to 50 members, and each of the five islands is some number of players; considerable strategy goes into determining the size and composition of each island. For example, a guild might make a "trap" island with five of the strongest members, and a weaker island with 13 of the weaker members. Each player gets 10 attacks, and there there is a huge score bonus for defeating an island ten times per player defending it. I'll see if I can find a forum post to cite as my reference. Aliza250 (talk) 09:47, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Citations needed
The major source of reliable information about this game's features and timeline is posts in the official game forum, but forum links are systematically removed if I add them. (The official FAQ and help site is often out of date.)

Since forum links are disallowed, it it OK to simply provide information without citation?

At what point can I remove the header flagging the page for attention to unsourced information?

Aliza250 (talk) 16:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

I was surprised to see that this page was deleted via PROD on 2020-05-03 (without notifying me, the primary contributor) ; I asked for it to be undeleted and am working on adding more citations to prove notability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion --Aliza250 (talk) 01:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion comment was "23:50, 3 May 2020 Explicit deleted page Animation Throwdown: The Quest For Cards (Expired PROD, concern was: Entirely sourced to primary sources, including forums. Search on theWikiProject:Video Games/Search Engine finds very little in the way of reliable coverage - only a short review on TouchArcade and a pre-release promo spot on VentureBeat. It's not sufficient to retain an article under WP:N, which requires topics to have "gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time".)"

Template?
Articles for many other video games have a template with Setting, Gameplay, Development, Reception sections. -- Aliza250 (talk • contribs) 10:16, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Links to mine
I'm parking a bunch of links here that are likely sources of useful verification references. Format is URL - Summary - Date - My notes

https://toucharcade.com/2016/06/27/kongregates-animation-throwdown-ccg/ - Brief preview - 2016-06-27 - Pre-release hype

https://theinfosphere.org/Animation_Throwdown - Futurama-centric overview - 2017-07-27 - Probably unusable, but links the earliest Zoidberg combos to episodes.

https://animationthrowdown.net/beginners-guide/ - Beginners' strategy guide - 2016-10-08 - Good guide to the first few days of gameplay, though missing all the newer features.

https://www.gameskinny.com/r5a6z/animation-throwdown-tips-and-winning-strategies - Midgame strategy guide - 2017-07-05 - Half dozen AT articles on this site, this seems the most useful.

https://www.practicalpolymath.com/uncategorized/animation-throwdown-rumble-strategy-guide - Detailed Rumble strategy guide - 2017-12-17 - Deep dive into Rumble strategy and tactics, deckbuilding, etc. Same blog also has https://www.practicalpolymath.com/uncategorized/1994

https://www.levelwinner.com/animation-throwdown-tips-cheats-complete-guide-skills/ - Guide to skills - 2016-09-23 - Good guide to the first set of skills released. Site has several other AT articles.

-- Aliza250 (talk) 05:12, 15 May 2020 (UTC)