I'm more and more seriously considering sending out an order for a special Grim DotCom-set of playing cards. Sure, it'll cost me nearly 2 Euros per deck at a minimum of 1000 decks, but it'll be so cool and totally sellable. Even if it takes me hundreds of conventions to push - hell, that's almost an argument FOR them, because then I'll never have to worry about having to arrange for something to bring. I'll just bring the stash of buttons I still have, perhaps produce a few up-to-date eBooks, and a bunch of those decks. Worst comes to worst and the convention is practically dead, then we can still PLAY cards.
Buttttttt.. the real headbreaker is how to fit in the characters.
Ok, the colour schemes are easy enough: all the red colours (hearts and diamonds) go to The Grim DotCom and all the black colours (clubs and spades) go to Netscythe. And for each 'level', you'll only have one character per company. So the Ace for both Hearts and Diamonds is the Grim Reaper, and the Ace for Clubs and Spades is the crazy inventor boss from Netscythe. Needless to say, I want ALL the pictures to be unique, so the two images of the Grim Reaper will differ from one another.
So far so good. This wasn't the difficult part.
The difficult part is who goes where. And with Netscythe, the total cast hasn't been introduced yet, and I'm not even entirely done character designing them. Argh !
To illustrate how difficult this is, here's the total list of 55 cards that should be in such a deck. With the characters I had mentally assigned to them. The ones in italic bold are the ones I'm already sure of, the merely-italic ones I am much less sure about...
Grim DotCom set:
JOKER I............Casey 1
JOKER II............Casey 2
ACE HEARTS.........Grim Reaper 1
ACE DIAMONDS.......Grim Reaper 2
KING HEARTS........John 1
KING DIAMONDS......John 2
QUEEN HEARTS.......Eileet 1
QUEEN DIAMONDS.....Eileet 2
JACK HEARTS........Jack 1
JACK DIAMONDS......Jack 2
10 HEARTS..........Kent 1
10 DIAMONDS........Kent 2
9 HEARTS...........Yvette 1
9 DIAMONDS.........Yvette 2
8 HEARTS...........Jim 1
8 DIAMONDS.........Jim 2
7 HEARTS...........Morale Officer 1
7 DIAMONDS.........Morale Officer 2
6 HEARTS...........Reaper's secretary 1
6 DIAMONDS.........Reaper's secretary 2
5 HEARTS...........Annoying guy 1
5 DIAMONDS.........Annoying guy 2
4 HEARTS...........Jesus 1
4 DIAMONDS.........Jesus 2
3 HEARTS...........a computer 1
3 DIAMONDS.........a computer 2
2 HEARTS...........the building 1
2 DIAMONDS.........the building 2
And the NetScythe part of the set:
JOKER III...........The Devil 1
JOKER IV...........The Devil 2
ACE CLUBS..........Crazy boss 1
ACE SPADES.........Crazy boss 2
KING CLUBS.........Luke 1
KING SPADES........Luke 2
QUEEN CLUBS........Cynthia 1
QUEEN SPADES.......Cynthia 2
JACK CLUBS.........Pete 1
JACK SPADES........Pete 2
10 CLUBS...........Jake 1
10 SPADES..........Jake 2
9 CLUBS............Mark 1
9 SPADES...........Mark 2
8 CLUBS............
8 SPADES...........
7 CLUBS............
7 SPADES...........
6 CLUBS............
6 SPADES...........
5 CLUBS............
5 SPADES...........
4 CLUBS............
4 SPADES...........
3 CLUBS............
3 SPADES...........
2 CLUBS............
2 SPADES...........
I still have a lot of deciding to do...
3 comments:
You should do a Tarot in which all the characters are Death.
Interesting idea, Reinder, but I've kind of got my heart set on this one. I did, however, prior to figuring all this out, check out the rules etc. of the tarot sets, on a similar thought... but a regular classic cards set, except designed like this, wouldn't that just be... so damn.. awesome ?
I know it's been a bit over two months since this post, but I'm curious if any decks have been made or not. I know I'd be interested.
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