Hi Guys,
as promised I finally finished working on my deck of cards and it is now on Kickstarter. It is a deck that celebrates the culture of Nigeria, the court cards are all unique and each suit is a different tribe. I hope you all find it as interesting as it was for me to make. This is the very first deck I have made so I am excited to see it come to life. I would love any feedback you guys have on the project.

Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ifeanyichu/natives-playing-cards

Ah!

An example of a card game we have is "Whot!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whot! Similar but different to the  Rouen play cards in that it has four suits ( but they are Square, circle, star, and triangle) then there are also no court cards and the numbers go up to 14. This is the most popular one, but we have other local card games.

That being said the deck i'm basing my custom deck on the International standard we all know today and most of the people in this forum are used to. I am a poker player so it only came naturally to create a custom deck based on the international standard but with a Nigerian twist. Attached is a mockup of what I'm working on, there is more to come.

It is basically a deck of cards, where all the court cards of all the suits are tribal leaders of the four major tribes in Nigeria. So each court card is different and unique. I am trying to give it the traditional french feel with a twist, so you can use it for any games you already play with a typical bicycle deck for example. Tryin go keep the user experience as familiar as possible while being unique in its art. Also going for a collectible item so the tuck box will have multiple foils and the cards will be printed by USPCC for longevity. This is a passion project for me, but I hope other people like it too

Thank you for posting this, this turned out to be very helpful and reassuring that I was doing the right thing 😅

Thanks, Dan,

Yeah, it definitely has been super interesting venturing into the world of creating playing cards and I have so much respect for people who do this frequently or as a business. I do have questions and probably will ask in more appropriate parts of the forum or PM you. Thanks for the warm welcome.

I imagine you rarely get people from Africa on here, at least in Nigeria we have different card games that do not use the traditional suit system with court cards which I believe is historical of french origin? and in Nigeria, we were also colonized by the British so we absorbed more British culture than French 😆. Anyway, that's just a little random history. Its picking up though due to games like poker becoming more popular.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have gone pretty far in my designs and I will share my progress with you guys as things progress. Never knew about the deck
 from Rwanda will check that out now