Hmm, it sounds like a lot of people aren't into the MTG theme eh? Well, if there's a strong sentiment for/against I could definitely see where it'd be better to have something that more of us could agree on. We definitely will never get 100% "I love this theme" I imagine, but 80% or higher would be good.
In that spirit, I'm okay with nixing the MtG theme for the cards personally if it'll help us get to that higher approval rating... though I personally would really love to have Magic cards of everyone.
i think the MtG idea might have worked from the beginning, but since so many people are using last year's cards, i think it would make more sense for this year's to be very similar with only some subtle changes, like color, to distinguish them as being a second series.
I would love to participate this year. I had a blast at PAX East last year. The MTG idea sounds fun, we also could always turn it into a weird, "We Didn't Playtest This at All!" parody as well.
I'd love the MtG-themed idea, but I'm equally happy with the other ones. Anything with a suitably wide range of opportunities to be silly is more than acceptable for me!
Also +1 to having room on there for email/twitter/transdimensional portal addresses.
I think last year we shot down having an actual playable element. Too hard to reach a consensus.
If we do a theme I think it should just be a style template for this year. As in similar to last year in layout but with a new unified style. If we can agree on a theme it might be fun to parody another genre with our cards and pictures on the cards.
I'll try spiffing it up a bit, Don't forget that even if you don't like the template its SUPER easy to customize. A landscaped back, totally different "stats" custom text, badges. I love doing this stuff! I put my Crackberry Bar code on mine, (but now I have a droid >_<)
I'll tweak for the next couple of days and get back to you. One thing I'll probably do this year is make a card for someone/thing cool instead of myself, like do a plants Vs zombies one or something because I love that game so much! maybe a Dr. Who one...
[EDIT] What are the best "fake" card games out there? or maybe real ones? wouldn't it be neat to have *just* enough text worked in to have our cards work in a triple triad game? flux? tetra master?
I was toying around with making a PAX Pit game, because Pit is the f*ckin' bomb. But that wouldn't work with trading cards so much. Maybe I'll make up a version by myself as a side game project. Now what are the big annual commodities for PAX...
I'll try spiffing it up a bit, Don't forget that even if you don't like the template its SUPER easy to customize. A landscaped back, totally different "stats" custom text, badges. I love doing this stuff! I put my Crackberry Bar code on mine, (but now I have a droid >_<)
I'll tweak for the next couple of days and get back to you. One thing I'll probably do this year is make a card for someone/thing cool instead of myself, like do a plants Vs zombies one or something because I love that game so much! maybe a Dr. Who one...
[EDIT] What are the best "fake" card games out there? or maybe real ones? wouldn't it be neat to have *just* enough text worked in to have our cards work in a triple triad game? flux? tetra master?
it would really take very little to be able to throw them into a flux game, just tack on a rule or goal, ideally relating to collecting other pax cards. that way you could even use series 1 cards just as object cards. it's simple, I like it.
The biggest reason trading cards are difficult to throw into a game is that we use the front and back of the card. Also many people wouldn't want to play with (bend) cards they collected.
A playable game is still possible for PAX East 2010, but most effort is going to be going into the design soon, making it difficult to switch gears into a playable format.
i'll just throw 4 triple triad numbers in the corner of mine on both sides I think... so here's a question... last year we cribbed the marvel trading card style, shall we crib something different this time? there aren't too many styles suited to showcasing a personality, (one side art, one side data, not a "blank" side for random-draw type games) so maybe something original? just spiffing up last years?
Maybe we COULD do a PAX game? Everyone could put an activity/person/photo opportunity/place on their cards and then we'll photograph ourselves "completing/getting others to complete" them and post them in the forums for funz?
Maybe we COULD do a PAX game? Everyone could put an activity/person/photo opportunity/place on their cards and then we'll photograph ourselves "completing/getting others to complete" them and post them in the forums for funz?
I believe there was talk of a seperate scavenger hunt activity that was basically this.
Maybe we COULD do a PAX game? Everyone could put an activity/person/photo opportunity/place on their cards and then we'll photograph ourselves "completing/getting others to complete" them and post them in the forums for funz?
Ya I am organizing a scavenger hunt with punzie already and I don't know if there's enough interest for two scavenger hunts. Speaking of which, I need to update my thread.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
I still submit my design at the bottom of page 1 for your perusal
A few notes:
The border white space will not nearly be as big when you get the final card in your hand (there's a template in the psd that indicates where the cut occurs, etc.)
The font for the name is just a placeholder to get the idea out there
I haven't worked on a back yet, was thinking of something horizontal (like a baseball card)
Ooh, I like it Goose! Though instead of an oval, could we possibly do something more like a top and bottom border approach?
I say this for purely selfish reasons: I don't think the Cookie Brigade logo will fit well in the oval template without leaving a lot of whitespace. This may not be a sufficient reason to change the border design, but I figured I'd bring it up just in case
Ooh, or would it behoove us to have two border designs: one for "events" and "groups" that would need more room for a logo, and this oval one for people (who would obviously fit much better into the oval border than logos do)?
Well, last year I don't know if other groups did this, but the Cookie Brigade had cards printed: it was a nice, cheap way to get the word out about what the cookie brigade was and have something other than cookies to hand out.
I can't recall if any other groups or activities had cards made though. They worked out pretty well for the Brigade: when people asked us what the heck we were about, I could give them a card and it had our whole history and goals summarized on the back.
A few notes:
The border white space will not nearly be as big when you get the final card in your hand (there's a template in the psd that indicates where the cut occurs, etc.)
The font for the name is just a placeholder to get the idea out there
I haven't worked on a back yet, was thinking of something horizontal (like a baseball card)
Let me know what you think
Way...way to much border, imo.
I stopped worrying about trading cards and suggestions after this on Twitter:
I think I heard from another thread that Dave's been kept super busy by something IRL... I'm not sure what, but that's probably why we haven't heard from him yet. I'm not worried... well, as long as whatever it is that's keeping him isn't something painful and/or sad. If you're out there Dave, I hope things are going okay!
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
Cookie Brigade card can fit the design, I will make it so.
It can fit in the oval one without looking awkward? Well, if you can make it look good, we'd be in your debt: I have no skills of an artist, so I was just going to hack together ours. If you can do it, that'd be awesome!
I've been watching, I just haven't had time to play with the template. I think it's good that we have creative juices flowing. It's the best way to come up with something new and exciting.
I missed out on this last year and never got round to doing the buttons at PAX Prime. I have now decided to do both in 2011 and will come up with a suitable design for a trading card on this thread. It appears a great deal more achievable given my limited design skills to make a reasonable looking card
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edited December 2010
I do not think that a game is out of the question or too difficult if you were to set it up like Pokemon cards (which I admit a bias towards)
With Pokemon cards you could create a few different templates (Trainers/Supporters have a different layout than Pokemon) which would bring more vareity and help people to identify the cards that they are really looking for.
So, in this rambling of an idea, things like the Cookie Brigade would be a trainer which would allow some arbitrary ability to the player
If we capped this on a certain date and had a definate number of participants a game could be created; but I think that for now the abilities would be just for looks....
(sorry for typos....tired typing)
...also PAX East has the PokeCrawl....
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edited December 2010
To be honest, this card game topic has been done to death in this thread. This thread is for trading cards. If you, or somebody else wants to make a PAX Community TCG, that's perfectly fine, but please start a new thread for that topic. Thank you.
Happy holidays and I apologize for letting this project languish. It has been a very busy season for me. Although we are not late, we are certainly farther behind than I would like to be. I see there being a few approaches to take, so I figured I would throw them out here and see how everyone else feels. Please let me know which approach you prefer (and what you are hoping to do yourself), if there is something I missed, and what you would be willing to contribute.
Approach 1 - We create an entirely new template, everyone makes new cards. Approach 2 - Series 2011 is an extension of 2010. Old people use last years cards, new people create new cards (and pick up from last years numbers). Approach 3 - Series 2011 uses the same template, but everyone refreshes their cards (pictures/information). This would mean restarting the numbering sequence, as it is a new series. I would update the template with new icons.
I am down for approach 3, but the updated cards need to be done quickly & ordered very soon. Time is running out. I still have lots of cards left for approach 2.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
I can whip out new templates like nobody's business, fyi.
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In that spirit, I'm okay with nixing the MtG theme for the cards personally if it'll help us get to that higher approval rating... though I personally would really love to have Magic cards of everyone.
Also +1 to having room on there for email/twitter/transdimensional portal addresses.
I don't think it's an issue with folks having last years cards, as those still match that set. It just makes each series kinda cool by itself.
What about a Video Game theme. Could make the back look like some retro catridge format, but leave a label space for the person's name & avatar.
BUT
If we make Munchkin cards I want to be a Level 8 Odoriferous Malcontent (assuming we can coerce Kovalic into illustrating us).
If we do a theme I think it should just be a style template for this year. As in similar to last year in layout but with a new unified style. If we can agree on a theme it might be fun to parody another genre with our cards and pictures on the cards.
We could get the folks w/ the best design skills to start with last years template and polish it up to v2.0.
I'll tweak for the next couple of days and get back to you. One thing I'll probably do this year is make a card for someone/thing cool instead of myself, like do a plants Vs zombies one or something because I love that game so much! maybe a Dr. Who one...
[EDIT] What are the best "fake" card games out there? or maybe real ones? wouldn't it be neat to have *just* enough text worked in to have our cards work in a triple triad game? flux? tetra master?
it would really take very little to be able to throw them into a flux game, just tack on a rule or goal, ideally relating to collecting other pax cards. that way you could even use series 1 cards just as object cards. it's simple, I like it.
A playable game is still possible for PAX East 2010, but most effort is going to be going into the design soon, making it difficult to switch gears into a playable format.
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Maybe we COULD do a PAX game? Everyone could put an activity/person/photo opportunity/place on their cards and then we'll photograph ourselves "completing/getting others to complete" them and post them in the forums for funz?
I believe there was talk of a seperate scavenger hunt activity that was basically this.
Ya I am organizing a scavenger hunt with punzie already and I don't know if there's enough interest for two scavenger hunts. Speaking of which, I need to update my thread.
Another idea might be something that like a gamercard in PAX East colors on the back
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I say this for purely selfish reasons: I don't think the Cookie Brigade logo will fit well in the oval template without leaving a lot of whitespace. This may not be a sufficient reason to change the border design, but I figured I'd bring it up just in case
Ooh, or would it behoove us to have two border designs: one for "events" and "groups" that would need more room for a logo, and this oval one for people (who would obviously fit much better into the oval border than logos do)?
I can't recall if any other groups or activities had cards made though. They worked out pretty well for the Brigade: when people asked us what the heck we were about, I could give them a card and it had our whole history and goals summarized on the back.
Way...way to much border, imo.
I stopped worrying about trading cards and suggestions after this on Twitter:
@ridermiller @MoeFwacky I was expecting much more chaos, I will probably let people talk until I make the template ... based on M:TG
http://twitter.com/DaveSchrader/status/29484288311
In reply to my mention to him saying, "@MoeFwacky @DaveSchrader I agree on the trading card thread. Stuff be gettin crazy"
That was back on Nov 2nd. Just sounds like Dave has things locked down already but is still letting us discuss. Seems futile to me.
It can work.
As VT said, I've just been super busy IRL.
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We've got plenty of time I think, no worries.
With Pokemon cards you could create a few different templates (Trainers/Supporters have a different layout than Pokemon) which would bring more vareity and help people to identify the cards that they are really looking for.
So, in this rambling of an idea, things like the Cookie Brigade would be a trainer which would allow some arbitrary ability to the player
If we capped this on a certain date and had a definate number of participants a game could be created; but I think that for now the abilities would be just for looks....
(sorry for typos....tired typing)
...also PAX East has the PokeCrawl....
Approach 1 - We create an entirely new template, everyone makes new cards.
Approach 2 - Series 2011 is an extension of 2010. Old people use last years cards, new people create new cards (and pick up from last years numbers).
Approach 3 - Series 2011 uses the same template, but everyone refreshes their cards (pictures/information). This would mean restarting the numbering sequence, as it is a new series. I would update the template with new icons.
PAX East Trading Card Organizer | Twitter | Google+
Approach 1 is possible, but I'm not sure we have enough time to do it.
With PAX about 9 weeks away we should try to build momentum and get more people ordering this year. Everything is at a standstill right now.
Edit: Approach 3 could work if a new template or whatnot is whipped out in like the next week. Just my thoughts.
I will defer to the majority vote getter.