Hi Don / Rose, thank you for replying...

Don: I appreciate your honesty and advice (and understand that you do not have the time to recover old ground telling me something that is already out there).
I wish I had known about the help / advice sections - for new designers - on this forum, before I had launched. But you live and learn don't you?

So am I correct in thinking that your advice would be to call time on my current project with a view to revising it (using the opinions and advice of the community)?
If so, I am more than happy to do this - if it is possible to cut a project short on Kickstarter? Would this not however, upset my existing backers or make them lose faith in me?
Hopefully they would understand if I poste an update saying that the project has been put on hold pending further improvements to the design... What do you think?

Rose: Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post. Feel free to give me any of your own feedback etc. as well
About the dot and line configuration - my idea was that the numerical cards in the deck (which was predominantly aimed at collectors for the novelty value of every card trying to appear like an ace - to answer an earlier question from Don) increased in dots and lines the higher the number e.g. the three of spades would have three dots / pips inside the spade, the four would have four and on and on until you run out of dot combinations and thus connect them with lines instead... If all that makes sense?

Probably it doesn't, because - as I am finding out - this brainchild clearly still requires some refinement! (But that's okay - I like a challenge).

Anyway, if either of you (or anyone else for that matter) would care to advise me further I would be very grateful and will take the necessary steps to come out the other side with a much more appealing and rounded pack of cards

Kind regards,

Adam Watts aka: Watsi88.