It's got great art, but this project needs WORK, big-time. The courts shown thus far don't really evoke steampunk - they could just as easily be girls from a Parisian "can-can" show or a Mississippi steamboat of the late 19th century. Looking on her website, I get the feeling that she's borrowing from two previous deck designs created on Kickstarter - the faces are evocative of the Steampunk Deck by Reagan MeClennan while the back looks like a simplified version of the Bicycle Actuators deck by Lance Miller. I won't even go into the assorted design flaws for a functional pack of playing cards.
Could make for a nice pack of art pictures. NOT a deck anyone can conveniently play with or use in performance, except perhaps by a cardist with a penchant for offbeat artwork not usually found in cards. Since those tend to be few and far between, the project as is will only appeal to low-budget patrons of the arts.
The things I could do with this work, though. She's a very talented artist. If she hired me as a consultant, I'd be able to whip this project into something fantastic.
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