Greetings from Tab Creations!
In 2013, Tab Creations was researching Indian culture and history for our then in development tabletop rpg, Against the Dark Yogi, and we came across mentions of Ganjifa cards. The game intrigued us and we began to search for a source to purchase these cards but could not find one. The artform, hand-painted cards on hand-made paper was rapidly disappearing and there didn?t seem to have been any general printing in decades. It was then that we launched our first kickstarter project and with the help of more than 400 backers, produced the first general printing of Mughal Ganjifa the world had seen in over half a century.
That printing has since sold out and we at Tab Creations are faced with a dilemma. Is there a market for more of these historic and culturally significant cards? Are there still people out there who want to keep this dying artform alive? Those are the questions we hope to answer with this project, do people still want to keep these cards available?
The deck we printed in 2013 used original art from an Indian artist but was based on a historic 16th century deck. We will continue the trend of keeping the deck as historically accurate as possible while keeping it affordable for those wanting to own this vanishing piece of history.
Ganjifa was the very first kickstarter project and commercial product from Tab Creations and we were quite the beginner to the game manufacturing process. Now, with 7 successful projects under our belt and many, many other products released independently, we have learned a lot and this time around we want to make Ganjifa even better than before. With higher quality materials and packaging as well as four additional and unique games to play with Mughal Ganjifa.
Check out the project here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabcreations/ganjifa-traditional-indian-playing-cards-reincarnated
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