Designing a Cyberpunk-style card game featuring traditional Chinese weapons

Abstract

Against the background of the current global game market's growing thirst for originality and cultural diversity, this paper will start from the culture of domestic card games, analyze the card rule design, combine traditional Chinese weapon culture with Western cyberpunk art presentation forms, and then put forward the corresponding suggestions and countermeasures for card game cultural connotation to promote the development of card game industry with traditional Chinese culture as the main element. How to effectively integrate Chinese traditional weapons with deep cultural heritage without compromising the unique futuristic aesthetics of cyberpunk, creating a new card game design that is both modern and without losing the traditional flavor. Taking visual communication design as an entry point, this paper discusses in depth the historical significance of traditional Chinese weapons, their stylistic features and their transformation in modern visual culture. By analyzing the core qualities and aesthetic requirements of the cyberpunk style, this study further proposes a set of systematic design frameworks aimed at guiding how to select traditional weapon elements that match the cyberpunk style and integrate them innovatively through modern design means. To summarize, this study not only successfully solves the problem of integrating traditional Chinese weapons into the design of cyberpunk style game cards, but also provides valuable theoretical support and practical examples of how to integrate traditional culture in modern game design, which is of great significance to the promotion of cultural diversity and the development of innovative design.