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Offline TheHolyRoller

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Text-only Card Design
« on: February 01, 2019, 04:05:58 PM »
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Hey guys!  Just tinkering around and I came up with a design for text-only, printer-friendly cards.  What do you think?

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2019, 04:20:51 PM »
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I'd make the verse text and identifier smaller so the ability stands out more.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2019, 04:37:13 PM »
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Ah, good call.  Something like this?


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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2019, 10:16:10 PM »
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Its pretty cool. For your mock-up the only two critiques I might have are that the "Dragon" icon appears to be a horse head and a Demon would be Orange assuming this is a reprint of an old card being brought into the current era.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2019, 11:37:50 PM »
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Its pretty cool. For your mock-up the only two critiques I might have are that the "Dragon" icon appears to be a horse head and a Demon would be Orange assuming this is a reprint of an old card being brought into the current era.

I thought so too, even though the icon I downloaded said dragon, lol.  I thought about making it look more medieval, like it came from an ancient book.  But, do you think these would be useful?

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2019, 08:52:54 AM »
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I think they could be useful as proxies for play-testing. One thing that lacks in many proxy cards is the full wording and all of the identifiers. You have all of that covered with your layout.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2019, 11:54:12 AM »
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Another thing this could accomplish is something else that was asked/mentioned and that is that it would be very simple to add the color to this and create a color-blind version of this game.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2019, 12:22:29 PM »
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Another thing this could accomplish is something else that was asked/mentioned and that is that it would be very simple to add the color to this and create a color-blind version of this game.

For instance, find a way to put the word "Orange" on the demon card you have mocked up.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2019, 09:17:28 PM »
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Something like this?



Another thing this could accomplish is something else that was asked/mentioned and that is that it would be very simple to add the color to this and create a color-blind version of this game.

For instance, find a way to put the word "Orange" on the demon card you have mocked up.

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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2019, 03:02:04 AM »
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To save ink you should make a option where you flip the the colors in the top left corner. Flip it the black backgroud to white in a black circle, black text and a black dragon head.
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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2019, 10:40:20 AM »
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I like this, but I’m curious how this design would handle 3/4 color cards, territory class, warrior class, cloud, Star etc.
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Re: Text-only Card Design
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2019, 02:11:34 PM »
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Much better. I am also curious about what Kor brings up. There is enough space across the top for more text or perhaps a list of identifiers.

 


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