Thank you very much for this Lee!  A great concise guide to get started.

It's hard to make out any details in the screenshot, but considering there is low lighting, poor resolution/focus, etc it's possible these are the ones.  Certainly a generic non-brand, but a style that would have been popular in the 70s/80s.  https://www.etsy.com/listing/206360318/vintage-1970s-playing-cards-white-and

It feels like the white is too prominent on these cards compared to the screenshot, but hard to say given the angle and lighting.  Certainly similar anyhow.  It does appear the cards in the screenshot could be a 6 pointed start with elements between the points, much like this deck.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I do love this idea of using a PCB, but your original style had legs as well.  I suggest doing a v1 and v2 and use both designs.

Just a reminder PCBs do not have to be green, although that is tradition (due to material natural color, military spec, easier for human eyes for soldering, etc).  A black background with gold traces/circuits or white with silver would still be realistic, but also more modern and make the cards easier to read. Making the pips on number cards be actual PCB components (processors, etc) that are on the actual board and interconnected and then the indicies can simply be what is printed on the board for identification.  If you want to stick with green I would suggest going closer to a traditional PCB board color (more saturated/contrast) and then also use gold/silver for the circuits which will make it easier to read and also resemble a traditional board more.





Then again, it doesn't have to be totally realistic, it can be heavily circuit inspired and have the strong feel of a PCB, but use other colors and even white traces to make it look like light/electricity moving through them.

Perhaps you could get by with some replicas

1864 is pretty close and probably has the look you want, complete with square corners.
http://www.amazon.com/Highlanders-1864-Poker-Cards-Replica/dp/1572810963/
https://www.usgamesinc.com/1864-Poker-Deck/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkr3uHLcMU


1876 is a little closer, but used a more unique marking system with 4 indicies so probably not what you want.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1500444958/1876-mauger-quadruplicate-playing-card-restoration


1883 is pretty darn close, but you are most likely wanting a traditional deck and not this transformation style
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1500444958/1883-murphy-varnish-transformation-playing-cards-r/

Also, while they don't have cards in the period you are looking for this site may be useful for other props/projects - http://historicgames.com/

If anybody wants to download the full set of news video segments as listed above (right click - save as)
EDIT - Original post had stutters every 10 sec or so, this one corrects that

Going to duplicate my comments from elsewhere just to further the discussion here.

Fantabulus!!! Any chance you can do it sooner than that? I'm really anstsy to get my hands on this one! 

The 6oH I maybe don't get, but the grey triangles are distracting and I just don't see what is going on there. Are they shining flashlights or something?  If so, perhaps you can try it with a white background and slightly yellow beams shining from them instead?  I think that would be more obvious and less distracting.

The 6oS and 7oS are pretty neat, but the pipmen aren't really interacting WITH the pips, instead they are just kind of there. Especially the 6oS which is a bit of an anomaly with the dark background, I wonder if you could make it work some other way or find a different scenario there.. The colors on the 7oS are pretty sweet though and there is some interaction with the birds so it's still good, just not as awesome as some of the others.

I'm pretty sure we've seen the 7oC before, which is quite good. The 6oC makes me smile and the 7oH is brilliant!

Why not charge each backer what it ACTUALLY costs to get from fulfillment to their location?  Using a flat rate either means you run the risk of getting screwed or you have to charge such a high fee based on worst case that you don't get any backers. 

Back to the initial topic, here's my two favorite/only Christmas decks.

http://www.portfolio52.com/node/1940



http://www.portfolio52.com/node/2541

Quote from: Don Boyer on October 22, 2015, 09:19:54 PM

Quote from: Ashe Ferall on October 22, 2015, 09:00:27 PM

Maybe the Christmas deck by Natilia will be a nice alternative, really looking at those now

Who is Natilia?  A Google search for Christmas deck Natilia produces no useful results.

Natalia Silva, Russian Folk Art deck, is doing a christmas deck soon.

Launching in the next few days on KS, probably MPC printer though.

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Nice art, for sure, but again not sending outside the US. I see you are asking for interest outside the US, but it's difficult to get a clear sample of that population either here or in UC. True there's people from Australia, UK and Asia, but the vast majority are from the US.
So it's a shame when a project says "shipping only to the US", but you probably knew that before. I can see the logic in previous projects with copyrights difficulties, but in this one, I fail to understand the reason, other than convenience, which I can't argue against besides saying that you are missing a part of this community.

Wow a mature response for once regarding this issue, respect.  This is well worded and I think offers some caution on ignoring international.  I think you are correct in the assumption they are doing this out of convenience and also avoiding the rage of those who will complain about international shipping costs if they do include it.  As you may know, they have been very up front with some of their early projects and costs.  http://albinodragon.com/blog/dragon-crate-kickstarter-analysis/

An interesting metric here is that even though international shipping only accounts for 25% of the backers, it was about 50% of the total shipping costs.

Keep this in mind when offering shipping worldwide.

Also don't forget how much more time intensive shipping international packages can be. You'll ultimately have a lot of data processing to do trying to correct international addresses as well as filling out accurate customs forms.

Based on this, I would have to believe they found it either too much of a pain or they would have to charge so much for international shipping to account for cost and time, not to mention the previous problems with fraud due to lack of ability to fully track in some countries.  Either that or they would have to partially account for this in the cost of the deck itself and raise the cost for everybody.  However, at the current price of $15/deck it seems they should be able to handle it.  That said, not sure who will buy many if at all at that price. 

My impression and assumption is that international buyers have increased lately and they may end up with more than 25% which Don also seems to agree with, especially in AP.  It should be possible to also lower the price of the deck overall to increase the appeal, but then also charge appropriately for international shipping without the cost being too high for you all. jsantafe has a good point here.  From my perspective the price HAS to come done to a reasonable one considering what this deck is (not licensed and not embellished with embossing, foil, inner printing, etc), but you should also consider including international to make it a success, even if that means charging a little more for shipping to those that want it and dealing with the 'not fair' crowd.

Here's the new image stitch so far