I was hoping to have something to show sooner than now, but managing a kickstarter campaign, a fulltime job and being sick all at the same time leaves me with little time for anything else.

I appreciate the feedback.  This is the sort of critique / suggestion I'm looking for. 

I had originally designed a companion deck for this one that featured different background colours on the faces.  I scrapped that though as soon as I realized you could see the colour of the card from the side when they're all stacked up.  I figured that's why cards usually have a white border.  I never thought it might be used to hide wearing on the edges.  The sample decks I had printed a little while ago have held up pretty well so far,

The Tuck Case:
I wanted to clean up the design of the tuck case and simply things a bit so I came up with some alternate versions.  I bounced them around between some friends and showed a short list of ideas to my project backers.  I personally prefer the alternate front design, but everyone seemed to prefer the original design because it featured all 4 colours.  Everyone unanimously preferred the new design for the back of the tuck case.

Final Tuck Case Design:


Alternate Tuck Case Design:


I like your suggestion for how to group the colours for the different suits, using warm colours for one set, and cooler colours for the other.  It would help for games that rely on red cards versus black cards.  Before I chose the suit colours I did some research to see if there was a standard for 4 colour decks, and I couldn't find a definite pattern, so I decided to just choose colours that work well together.  Unfortunately I think it's too late to do anything as drastic as changing a suit colour at this point.  I had a few backers get quite upset at the idea of slight changes to the court cards or tuck case.

The Jokers

I've been stuck on developing a good design for the joker cards for a while now.  The original design was the same as the front of the Tuck Case which was more for lack of a better idea than anything.

Below is an image of the direction I'm considering, but I'm still not totally happy with it.  Let me explain the idea behind it:

• I wanted a colour that stood out from the others so there would be no confusing this card with any of the other suits.
• I wanted two distinct joker cards since that's typical of most decks.  I really didn't want to introduce a 6th colour though, hence the outlined version

[li]For the corner symbol I tried a bunch of different ideas, a star, the word joker written both horizontal and vertical, the Bicycle "US" symbol, the metropol logo.  Nothing really seemed to fit.  I kinda settled with the double bar "||" design, since it fits with some of the other elements in the deck design.  The || also represents "or" in some programming languages which is kinda what a "wild card" is, so I thought that was sort of appropriate (albeit really obscure for most people).
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So there's some ideas for the joker design, but like I said nothing I'm really happy with.  I figured I'd share that though just to show some of the rationale behind the design.  I'm sure that design will get torn a new one, but at least it'll start a discussion

Hey Everyone,

I just realized I should have introduced myself here before posting in the Design and Development forum.

My name is Mike Lambert and I'm a video game designer / developer from Toronto, Canada. (Yes the city with the crack smokin mayor that's all up in the news these days).  Aside from designing video games I'm also a graphic artist and used to be a poker player (haven't had the time to play in over a year).  I've always had an interest in the designs of playing cards, dice, and poker chips.  Now with access to sites like Kickstarter it's actually a possibility for someone like me to get a design out there and into the hands of others.  That's pretty exciting for me.

Anyway, I just posted my first completed deck design over in the Design and Development forum (The NOX Deck - Now on Kickstarter)  I hope you guys like it! 

So that's my little introduction.  Just wanted to say, hey!

Mike.