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MTG Life Counter is a life tracker for Magic the Gathering trading card game that you can carry on your Playdate!

Imagine the face that your commander playgroup would make when they see you keeping the score with your crank operated yellow machine. Playdate can be a perfect life tracker due to its size and incredible battery life.

Use your d-pad left / right to select the player and d-pad up / down to set life. You can also use the crank to change life. You can hold B to change life by a factor of 5.Use A to access life history of selected player.  Press menu to change counter options.

Key features:

  • Crank your opponents life down or use d-pad to set each player life.
  • Options for 1 to 4 players.
  • Reset life shortcut. It will set life to 40 for 3 and 4 players mode.
  • Life history for all players
  • Font selection.
  • Always on screen (no auto lock)

ChangeLog:

  • Version 1.2:
    • New Feature: Life history. Keep track of life history for all players and life difference everytime damage is dealt to a player.
    • Crank input dead zone: No more unwanted life change trying to dock the crank
    • Small tweaks on arrows behavior.
  • Version 1.1: Added arrows to make obvious which player life is being changed. Fonts offset changed to make room for new arrows.
  • Version 1.0: This is the first release.

What's next? Future updates will include animations, more customization options and UI tweaks. Please, consider donating if you find this tool useful. 

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

mtgcounter.v1.2.pdx.zip 55 kB

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This is cool! I don't play Magic but I occasionally play board games that are missing pieces, so something like this to keep track of numbers is very useful. It'd be great if this program could also reset "Life" to 0 instead of 20 or 40.