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The Vale of Glamorgan
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As I type this, the first draft of the cards is complete and I've been back to correct the odd layout error - at least the ones I could spot on screen. As a consequence I've taken the plunge and started printing out the cards.
The first 'good news' part is that the cards are exactly the size I was aiming for, they fit inside the FFG 'Euro' sleeves.
The second part of the good news is that the cards look pretty good, at least the ones I've printed out so far do - I'm not even printing them at the highest quality my printer can manage and they're very crisp - a couple of the cards have rather dark backgrounds, but that works in my favour as the text is white or red.
The third scoring point is in original format at least, the cards print off dead center of the page, which means double sided printing is an option (though not for me, as I'm using single sided linen finish for the test printing, decided to take the plunge on the paper quality and trust my design - paid off!)
Of course, one potential issue is colour blindness, I can't check to see if that's a genuine problem, but I have tried to avoid red and green in the design.
I have a set of tokens to design and print out along with a Recreation Room card to keep them in when they're not at a task, but they're not essential to seeing the practicalities of playing with this set.
For those of you looking to see a few images, here are the other deck designs that I ended up settling on:
Act 1 - Deck (part)
The Act/Encounter Cards are larger than ordinary playing cards, there's a lot of text on them and this way it's easy to place tokens on the cards.
Outpost 1 Deck - Front
Outpost 1 Deck - Back
Outpost 3 Deck - Front
Outpost 3 Deck - Back
I really love the look of the Outpost 3 deck and the two newer Outpost Decks came out well enough that I went back and revised the Outpost 2 Deck a little to match up with them.
I've rather enjoyed doing this and being so close to the first finish point of the project is a pleasure. (I won't be able to work on The Things at this point as I don't have the text of the cards.) Soon I'll have to figure out how to turn everything into pdf(s) so I can upload it to BGG.
I've learnt quite a bit, and while the designs I've used are simplistic I've experimented a little and I'm considering doing a more complicated redesign of Utopian Rummy next (in English and German).
Still, need to get this finished first!
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