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POD of individual Cards?

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Sat, 09/10/2011 - 15:14
disaac
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I have a card game that I have been working on for a while, and have been envisioning it as a Customizable Game where each player could construct their own deck to play from.
I have no intention of it being a CCG -- there are only about 20 unique cards in the game -- but each player could tune their deck to their own style of play by chaning the counts of each card.

Anyway, I have been creating my own playtest cards in OpenOffice Draw, but would like a system where someone could decide that they want 5 of card X, 10 of card Y, etc and then get only those specific cards. Any ideas on how or where I could find such a service?

I know about POD services, but the ones I have seen print a full game at a time rather than letting the buyer customize exactly which cards and how many they are getting in an order.

On a side note, as I mentioned, my cards are currently in OpenOffice Draw with 8 cards per page. Any suggestions on the best way to break each card out into a standalone image for the above usage, and which image format should be used for best quality?

BTW... Currently the cards are mostly just text, formatted into sections, and with some icons.

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Sun, 09/11/2011 - 09:06
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whoshim
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I use GIMP, OpenOffice Calc,

I use GIMP, OpenOffice Calc, and nanDECK for my cards. I make the backgrounds and images in GIMP, Calc for the card text, and nanDECK to put it all together. I like theGameCrafter, so I make my cards according to their template (png of 825 wide by 1125 tall - including the 75 pixel borders). The only way you could let people print their own decks with my method would be to give them the image files, and then let them create their deck on theGameCrafter.

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Sun, 09/11/2011 - 10:38
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richdurham
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Print and Play

This sounds like a game where the players might want to use card sleeves, so you can use that to your advantage. Just have the cards as single card images available for download as a PDF. Put cutting guides on the page so that they fold over a backside to the card (also to give it double thickness), as well as card-use and deck-building strategies (since you'll have all that extra room).

Then, since the player is printing them at home (preferably on card stock!) they can cut out the card, fold it in half to get the backside art and put it in a sleeve to keep it flat. If you don't want to put the fold for the backside, just have them do card fronts and instruct the player to put the cards in solid-colored sleeve so that you wouldn't notice it's missing. Of course, with this option, they'll want to put a cheap backer card in the sleeve too, to give it some rigidity.

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Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:56
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The Game Crafter
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Custom Games Through Our API

I'm not sure if you're a programmer or not, but you could do this exact thing by building a web, mobile, or desktop application that makes use of our API's. Through the API you can build any game that you want any way that you want. So your application could allow the user to select just the cards they want, and then dynamically build a game to that specifications.

You can find out more information about our API here:

https://community.thegamecrafter.com/developer

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