In Brief:
- A creator program is launching at Origins TCG, with full details due at an AMA on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. UTC.
- Earlier this year the Koin Games card game relocated its trading system to the Steam marketplace, scrapping plans for a standalone on-chain model.
- The recruitment drive arrives just before a demo update the studio is readying for Steam Next Fest in October.
Content creators are being recruited by Origins TCG, which plans to spell out the details at an AMA scheduled for Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. UTC.
“Creators, we’re looking for you!” the studio said in a post on X. “We’re starting our creator program and want you to be a part of it.”
If you're a TCG creator, make sure to join the event in 2 days to find out more about our plans for working with creators!
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No terms were shared in the announcement itself. Instead, the post steered creators toward the AMA: “We’re hosting a AMA next week where you can learn more about our plans.” Followers were also encouraged to “tag your favorite creators that need to hear about this!”
The studio then published a second post that sharpened the pitch to a specific crowd. “If you’re a TCG creator, make sure to join the event in 2 days to find out more about our plans for working with creators!” it said.
Where the AMA happens
The Origins TCG Discord will host the session, the same venue the team uses for game nights, tournaments and AMAs. Anyone unable to attend live will find a recording posted afterward.
That server has also served as the channel for handing out playtest access and program details.
Trading moved to Steam
This year, Origins TCG relocated its trading system into the Steam marketplace and dropped the standalone on-chain model it had first mapped out. The reasoning from Koin Games: Steam already has trading infrastructure in place, along with an audience accustomed to shifting digital collectibles around.
There is no native token attached to the game. Blueprints — NFTs used for crafting, upgrading and trading cards — formed the backbone of its economy, alongside a cash wallet option aimed at players who preferred to avoid crypto entirely. That setup was in place before the Steam decision. Development was done with Immutable, on Immutable zkEVM.
July saw the Steam demo arrive following five years of development. For a limited window, players can pick up demo collectibles unavailable anywhere else, and according to the studio those items will become tradeable on the Steam marketplace once the full release lands later this year. An early access build is anticipated in the same period.
October is the next checkpoint
A sizable demo update is currently in testing at Koin Games in the run-up to Steam Next Fest in October. A community playtest weekend kicked off Friday, Aug. 7 at 9 p.m. UTC, with the team saying it wanted players holding the update before the festival begins.
A tournament was announced as well, pitched as being for fun, offering a wildcard invite to the studio’s Steam Next Fest tournament as a prize along with a secret prize.
The game itself
Turns in Origins TCG play out simultaneously, meaning both players move at the same time. A match lasts around seven to nine minutes on a three-lane board, with 13-card decks and a pool of over 100 rotating locations that alter the field from game to game.
Koin Games bills it as the first free-to-compete TCG, where skill alone determines who wins limited digitally graded cards that can be bought, sold and traded. “No pay-to-win ever,” the studio said on the game’s Steam page.
Its setting is an original world assembled from public-domain and folkloric characters — Robin Hood, Mulan, the Queen of Hearts and Winnie-the-Pooh among them — working from the idea that Earth got their names right and everything else wrong.
Credits for the team include work on Gods Unchained and Candy Crush. Before its current name, the project went by Project O.
Koin Games notes on its Steam page that AI-assisted tools are occasionally used for limited internal tasks, workflow acceleration and placeholder material, adding that its art team creates or hand-finishes all final artwork.
This month, part of the team turned up at the Card Party Card Show to pitch Origins to physical card collectors. That activation featured a slab giveaway for anyone pulling a 10/10 Alternate Art from an Origins pack.