Quote from: Rezfar on November 06, 2017, 04:00:25 PM

Quote from: Don Boyer on November 06, 2017, 06:55:59 AM

It looks nice, but very standard.  "Black and white" by itself might not be a strong enough theme, unless you're doing it in a fresh and unique way that's visually appealing.  Look at decks like Bicycle Ghost (the white one, not the black one) and you'll see it's a concept that's been done - and roughly a decade ago, if I'm not mistaken.

Thank you. Yeah it looks like standard but it is by design because always I wanted to make my own courts but almost similar to other standard courts. I want to try my own black and white too. I know there are lots of them out there.

I don't think you completely understood what I was saying.

While it is indeed your own original work, it is work that is derived very heavily from the classic faces that we now know as "International Standard" faces.  The little details might vary in many ways, but they still look like the same two-headed men and women we've been looking at since we were kids in the vast majority of all the International Standard decks printed in modern times.

While you may be rendering them in black and white, that, too, has been done, over and over again.  Ten years ago, it might have been considered a fresh, new idea and people would have rushed to buy a pack or two.  Today, it's a case of "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt - what else have you got?"  You're welcome to give it a try on Kickstarter, but I get a strong feeling that people will be asking themselves, "Why should I buy this deck when I already have many that are just like it?"  Or worse, "Why buy this when someone else has nearly the same thing for less?"

You need to come up with some kind of angle, something that makes your deck design so compelling that people won't be able to stop themselves from wanting to buy packs of it.  Your design, in its present state, is a nice design, but it's just not that compelling.  By "angle," I'm referring to something that will make it different from all the other decks out there.  Perhaps you went for rainbow colors instead of black and white.  Perhaps you did it with such a high degree of artistry that the art looked museum-quality.  Perhaps you altered your design to hew to a particular theme, like maybe you went for a more modern look in the clothing, or younger, more realistic faces on the court cards.

If you're not doing something more unique, you need to do it better than what else is already available or not enough people will care enough to back you.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to create a Kickstarter for just playing card iconography - digital images of playing card pips, courts, etc. done as images and wallpapers.

There's a lot of that available for free on the 'net now - getting someone to pay you for it will be more of a challenge.  You might be able to sell your images to a stock photography website, a clipart site or something like that, but I couldn't even imagine how much you'd get for it - I don't think it would be a lot.  It's the classic case of trying to sell coal to Newcastle, a place legendary for coal production...

You'd do better to come up with an idea for a deck design, I think - a full-blown deck rather than just the parts of a deck.  Come up with a timely and original theme, preferably something popular enough that there'd be demand for a deck based on it.  If you're going to try a theme that's been done before, then you'd really need to make it somehow better than what came before if you want to stand a good chance of success.  It's not impossible, mind you - it's just challenging.  Lots of people remember the first team to climb Mount Everest - very few remember the 1,429th team, unless they do something like parasail off the peak, launch Burning Man Nepal, etc.

Whatever you do, don't automatically equate "unique" with "good" - there's a lot of very unique deck projects out there that just go nowhere because they're original but not appealing to the audience to which they're being presented.  You need both good and unique!