Storing card data

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Figgity

I'm making a digital card game, but I'm having trouble with one big thing. How do I store the data of the cards? In another project I stored the attacks in a json file, but that was a significantly less complicated combat system, and the effects of the attacks were limited in scope.

I thought maybe I could try looking at code for similar projects, but I can't figure out how other online card games like online versions of Magic the gathering or Pokemon work

The only thing I can think of is to use a typescript file, but I want to see if you all knew how to do this

Jummit

So I think there are two main ways to store card data and behavior: Data-driven and scripted.
With the data-driven approach you define the behavior with JSON or custom Godot resources. This takes some time to set up, as you need to create a flexible way to represent card actions in data.
The scripted way would be to create scripts for each card, where you have callbacks and methods which define how the card works in-game.
I can't really recommend one method as I haven't tried both yet, but I went for a data-driven approach because this would allow users to easily define custom cards later on.

cybereality

I would recommend JSON, since it's a human readable format and supported natively in Godot. The other option would be to use a CSV file, which you can edit in Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc. This is what I did for this resource management prototype I tried making. This has the advantage that it is very easy to edit, since it is just a spreadsheet and you can use an external app that is mature, like Excel. You do have some work to parse the CSV in Godot, it is not automatic like JSON. Either way, you want to store in some sort of text file.