Fan-made Lorcana digital app gives the Disney TCG the Hearthstone treatment

Less than a week into the public launch of Disney Lorcana and fans of the explosively popular trading card game have already created a free, third-party digital client called Pixelborn that allows you to play on your computer. Pixelborn technically dropped back in May of this year and is the work of a small team led by game developer Pavel Kolev. By all measures, it's the Hearthstone version of Lorcana - the app installed on my PC provides access to a digital collection, cardback and deck customisation, both ranked and direct PvP matches and detailed statistics (if you subscribe to the project’s Patreon). Kolev has been careful to scrub any use of official Disney art or assets from Pixelborn’s digital interface. Until the player uploads images of the cards from wherever they manage to find them, the app displays greyed-out duds. The playboard is whimsical, bright and colourful - matching the storybook vibes of Lorcana’s The First Chapter without directly co-opting licensed illustrations or 3D models. It’s a mostly empty vessel waiting for players to pour in their Mickeys and Elsas and big Tinkerbells. Read more