9 Aug 2016:
Have you ever played FF9? It contains a trading card game called Tetra Master. I became addicted to it. One day I found a PC standalone version but could not get multiplayer to work. In my frustration I decided to create a real life version of Tetra Master. Coincidentally, I also found out a real life version already exists, but is out of print.

I thought Tetra Master was always a little too complicated (and looking over how the actual rl version worked just re-enforced my beliefs) so I simplified the game quite a bit and decided to just call it something different. Tetram.

I created my own 4x4 grid and printed it on a playmat via inkedgaming.com
I formatted the cards individually by myself and printed them on makeplayingcards.com
(background character art not drawn by me, but card backs, arrows, text is)
I ordered custom dice from thediceshoponline.com

I ended up just using past artwork commissions as background art, turning Tetram into a mostly "Lots of cards of Q but also here's some other characters randomly" game (I have 300+ arts of my OC Q. My other OCs don't get near as much love).

The game works generally the same as Tetra Master, except for the following:
- There are "ownership tokens" (which are actually blank d4s) you lay down on a card that belongs to you. Cards don't actually flip when they change ownership-- just color of ownership token changes.
- Instead of the complicated power types/etc., battles are simplified to a dice roll.
- There are three types of cards, denoted by which type of die you roll for that card's battle: d6, d10, d20.
- A dice roll at the beginning of the game denotes how many "blocks" you set up on the playing area
- Since I had no desire to create a CCG, the players just draw 5 cards and you get what you get for your hand, instead of building your own deck.

If you don't know anything about Tetra Master, here you go.