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Making Cookies in Quantum

 Hello. C J here. I was intending to wait until New Year’s Day 2026 to resume game design and just do Minecraft until them. I think that playing Minecraft and working on the server project has recovered my game design stamina a lot faster than I expected. So, back to Quantum. I’ve got a line of posts prepared for the next few days about Quantum cards, how they are made and how they work in the game. But first, cocoa.



This is a cocoa. It’s the art for a topaz gem named cocoa. It represents anything derived from that plant including cocoa powder and cocoa butter. There are five kinds of gems in Quantum. These are ruby, sapphire, topaz, alabaster and basalt. These are also called Renown, Prima, Resources, Wealth and Essence. They correlate to art and narrative of crafting materials, mathematical concepts, generic food, spices and abstract concepts. Together they can craft or reproduce any real life skill or recipe. I’m using them here to represent a real food I know how to make.



This is the image of a chocolate cookie card. The recipe is a real recipe I adapted from my master cookie recipe to contain cocoa powder but no chocolate chips. I wanted it to be soft, chocolatey and not too sweet. It’s a good breakfast cookie. It’s made of a specific number of ingredients that are listed in the art as its crafting recipe. Arrange these gem cards in that order on a table and you buy the cookie card. After that the gem cards are returned to their original decks to be drawn again as story rewards.





These are some of the ingredients in the cookie. The cookie looks like this.




These are all hand drawn. Most of this art is made with a stylus on a phone screen in raster. I do not use vector for the project as I don’t like working with it. Some of the line art and shapes are drawn with a mouse and the brush tool in Krita. I do not own a fancy drawing tablet and I personally don’t really like them. I prefer an Android in Sketchbook or a mouse. The text about the cookie is also true. I’m sure it’s possible to live off a chocolate based diet and get every vitamin you need. This cookie is a source of carbohydrates, B vitamins and iron. I like iron. It’s tasty.

C J Mcpherson



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