Carlos Zapata-Carratalá

Games

Game design & direction

I founded Entropy Studios, a board and card game studio in Alicante. Every game in its catalogue, and its other working prototypes, came out of my design direction and vision.

The Entropy Studios team around a table

Entropy Studios

Born from chaos, obsessed with perfection

Entropy is the measure of disorder in a system. In game development, pure ideas are chaotic and messy; the studio's job is to embrace that creative chaos and forge balanced rules, systems and experiences.

The team has competed at a high level in games like Magic: The Gathering, StarCraft and World of Warcraft. Frustration with established mechanics led us to take control of the chaos and develop our own system, starting with Entropy TCG. Every mechanic, every brushstroke and every piece of lore is designed to create strategic experiences that defy convention.

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Entropy: Trading Card Game cover

Trading card game

Entropy TCG

Civilizations rise, empires fall, alliances are forged: war rages across time and space.

A classic strategy card game with a focus on tactical gameplay, resource management and player interaction. Its first rules were drafted in late 2022; since then the game has gone through playtesting on Tabletop Simulator and a series of beta tournaments in shops around Alicante, which had a spectacular reception.

  • Players2
  • Duration40–60 min
  • ComplexityHigh
  • StatusBeta 0.9

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An Entropy TCG game in progress on a playmat
Entropy TCG being played at a tournament table
Early hand-drawn rules sketch for the Entropy TCG board
First iteration of the rules
First card iterations with sketches and placeholder art
First cards and placeholder art
Poster for an Entropy TCG beta tournament
Beta tournaments in Alicante
Mine, Mine, Mine! cover art: a dwarf, an elf and a goblin fight over a gem

Card game · Deckbuilding

Mine, Mine, Mine!

Lead legendary factions to hoard gems by managing resource cards, units, events and combat upgrades.

A free-for-all deckbuilder designed in 2025 together with local playgroups. The prototype was finalized in March 2026 and preselected as a finalist of the II Averroes board game prototype contest.

  • Players2–6
  • Duration20–40 min
  • ComplexityMedium
  • StatusPrototype
Sheet of Mine, Mine, Mine! prototype cards

In development

[ Classified project ]

A third game is in development. Access restricted.

Journey

From first rules to a studio

  1. Nov 2022 – Mar 2023The first rules of Entropy TCG are designed.
  2. Apr 2023First iteration of the Entropy TCG card set, with sketches and placeholder art to improve the testers' experience.
  3. Aug 2023A module to play Entropy TCG on Tabletop Simulator launches, and the first tournament expands the tester base.
  4. Aug – Dec 2023Tournaments in shops around Alicante while the prototype is fine-tuned and its narrative universe takes shape.
  5. 2024Entropy TCG reaches version 0.9. Entropy Studios is planned and created to finance development of the base game.
  6. 2025Work with playgroups on new board game ideas; design of Mine, Mine, Mine!, a free-for-all deckbuilder.
  7. Mar 2026The Mine, Mine, Mine! prototype is finalized.
  8. Jul 2026Mine, Mine, Mine! is preselected as a finalist of the II Averroes board game prototype contest (GDM Games and Asociación Jugamos Todos), entering the public voting round.