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NOOB Away
OK, so let me get this straight.
He invents a card game for RPG-style roleplay without all the maps and dice and figurines and such.
He wants it simple, requiring nothing more than a pack of playing cards. A run-of-the-mill deck found in any drugstore.
But then he designs a special deck for the game...and uses some terrible art...and splits the indices into separate corners, making a spread hand impossible to read without holding the cards in a very awkward manner... It sounds more like the game is an excuse for selling the cards, instead of the cards being made for the game. But what an awful design...
The card game idea is not a bad one, and this can actually be salvaged with a much-better artist and a consultant that knows playing card design - or both in a single person. But I get the impression that it won't be, that the creators would be unwilling to make such a radical change to what they've developed. C'est la vie...Anyone on here play the game? I haven't heard of it, is it relatively popular? It's going to be a pretty damn tough sell if the game has a small player base since it's basically useless to the people who normally collect decks and support playing card KS projects.
There's enough gamers around KS, from elaborate strategy games and RPGs right down to beer-and-pretzel games, that would be willing to give this game a try. But they'd be more likely to simply use a plain deck of cards and call it a day rather than deal with this poorly laid-out mess. A few annotations on the cards in pen, and voila - a custom deck designed for the game that costs less, works better and isn't as hideous.
As for the name, they could continue with the "measurement" theme, and call this deck Centigrade, or Fahrenheit, or whatnot.
I doubt it. What would they use for earth and air? Pounds? Tons? Kilos? Cubic Centimeters?
No name printer doesn't necessarily mean bad quality.
He also mentions though the secret codes would lead you to physical locations in Pennsylvania. Cool in concept but impractical for backers out of state and especially backers out of country. Kind of cool too in my opinion. I totally forgot that the Altruism deck had a secret code thing associated with them too but it had nothing to do with physical locations.
