The designer, hiding behind a company name, wrote this:
"Hello, I am an aspiring artist and an aspiring game designer. "
I think the key word there is "aspiring" - he hasn't quite made it yet.
I would say that these would be "poker-sized" cards, but to call them "poker cards" is too much of a stretch. Most poker players I know would revolt if someone tossed this deck on the table and said, "Let's deal." Non-standard courts and non-standard pips would be a deal breaker for many. I'm not saying it's a bad thing necessarily to be more creative - but poker cards, to my mind, are far more traditional in design. I mean, where there hell are the one-eyed Jacks?
And that artwork... It needs WORK. When I can see the pixels at this resolution, there's a problem with the detail work. And the indices being INSIDE the frame, much closer to the center than the edge - well, that's going to make for some GIANT card hands. It would almost be like there were no indices at all...
I could go on, but I'll just sum it up by saying these cards have a handicap of two-and-a-half strikes and two outs against them, no one on base and the inning just started... It's a nice concept and could have been done so much better than this.
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