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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Design & Development => Topic started by: Don Boyer on May 14, 2015, 11:05:12 PM
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I found a link in my email, followed it to Kickstarter and found THIS...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iluzijastudio/playing-cards-wizard
Never have I been so afraid for the future of custom playing cards decks as I became the moment I saw this project...
It has the potential to FLOOD KICKSTARTER with HUNDREDS OF CRAP PLAYING CARD PROJECTS. Anyone with a few bucks, nearly no skill and a dream (plus a computer and Internet access) can create a craptacular pack of playing cards based on any horrifically bad design their little hearts desire...
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The Sith Lord holding a Lightsaber looks pretty cool though. ???
We need an emoticon with a lightsaber!
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So the kickstarter bubble is finally bursting... ::)
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It has the potential to FLOOD KICKSTARTER with HUNDREDS OF CRAP PLAYING CARD PROJECTS. Anyone with a few bucks, nearly no skill and a dream (plus a computer and Internet access) can create a craptacular pack of playing cards based on any horrifically bad design their little hearts desire...
I am hoping though in those hundreds of crap playing cards project, there will be 1 or 2 that stand out from the rest and make something new.
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A few bucks, nearly no skill, and a computer? That's ME!
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So the kickstarter bubble is finally bursting... ::)
If only... It's like a balloon made of tungsten carbide...
The Sith Lord holding a Lightsaber looks pretty cool though. ???
We need an emoticon with a lightsaber!
We do. I believe that's Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine, but it's too small to be certain.
I am hoping though in those hundreds of crap playing cards project, there will be 1 or 2 that stand out from the rest and make something new.
I'm hoping I'll be recognized for my lifetime achievements and be granted "f**k you" money to do with as I please. I'm not holding my breath, though, and neither should you! Looking for a good deck from a template that generates cookie-cutter decks will be like looking for the digit 2 in a very long binary number...
A few bucks, nearly no skill, and a computer? That's ME!
...and so it begins... :))
I'm going to move this topic. It's really more of a Design/Dev thing - technically it's a LACK OF design and development, but you get the idea...
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The saying “The world is but a canvas to our imagination” by Henry David Thoreau is right. But imagination is a very but a very difficult thing.
I think that making card decks from templates is a good pastime and fun.
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The saying “The world is but a canvas to our imagination” by Henry David Thoreau is right. But imagination is a very but a very difficult thing.
I think that making card decks from templates is a good pastime and fun.
I'm in agreement with you that it would be a fun and interesting thing to do for one's own entertainment or as part of a DIY project you put together at home. However, it's only a matter of time before someone decides that they want to make a deck for public sale and distribution and, lacking the talent or any other affordable means by which to create the design, they will use this template, this "card making machine" for lack of a better term, and Kickstarter will be rife with cookie-cutter designs made from this Photoshop plug-in.
One or two might even be good enough to produce, but the bulk will be absolutely terrible, clogging up the works and making it more difficult to find the diamond in the rough amidst the lumps of coal. All deck projects will take a hit as a result, should this actually come to pass in a big way - there will be too many deck projects to sort through and the critical, casual deck purchases that happen by serendipity and random chance will become more scarce than natural diamonds. Without those kinds of purchases, there's hardly a deck project in the top ten all-time fundraisers that would have raised the money needed to reach their goal, never mind the lofty heights they've achieved.