...and here is brain-storming some edits with Dan and Bugsby on the zenboard. (By the way guys, thanks a ton for tolerating my constant theft of your iPhones for photo capture.)
Some things to compare and contrast:
A quick summary of the project: my brother and I promised each other that if he got the code done and I got the art done, all four of my siblings could play online Tichu against each other all the time. And that is a goal worth gold, so if you're watching the updates flow by, leave a comment if you want to know when it's online.
Originally, the art end of this was going to be much more foolish, literally 56 different drawings of squid (and I was actually pumped about that, and by now, seriously thinking that it would have been easier.) There's a thousand arty decks out there (including this one: "Ruthlessly criticize the bourgeois!"), and lots of room for experimentation...but after drawing for a bit, I realized that the Bicycle playing cards are kind of a holy grail of design for me, solving all kinds of problems and making game-play much easier than if you were trying to rapidly recognize 56 different things, instead of the nice nestled structure of 13 things within 4 suites. I also like how they read well from any angle, or from awkward screen UIs. So without directly riffing off of Bicycle, I'm actually trying to design a Deck of Cards-- not just putting lots of images on pieces of cardboard, and it's both harder and more interesting than I thought it would be. And it is part of my grand excuse to ramp up my Illustrator nerdiness.
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