"Ars Goetia" card game

[hexmortia]

Hi everyone! 

My name is Bael and I am a French designer under the name of ARS GOETIA DESIGN (arsgoetia.fr). Some months ago, I had the idea of making a card game with my own illustrations. Three days ago, I started a Kickstarter project! This is a bit scary for me. First project, you know...

A friend of mine told me about this forum to promote my project so here I am! I'm not a card game expert or whatever. Just a designer with a motivating idea.

Let's introduce my cards! I simply called it the "Ars Goetia Card Game".
It's maybe dark and a bit morbid, but this is what I like!




More cards are coming. I'm working daily on it! I really hope some of you will enjoy it! It's a big part of me.

Here is the Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arsgoetia/ars-goetia-playing-cards-54-cards

I hope some of you will like it and I hope I'm doing right about my coming on your forum.

Thank you very much and see you very soon!

Bael

[ecNate]

Hi, thanks for sharing, good artwork and has a good chance.  My first thought was why do the cards look like they were photocopied, but I see that was a style you are going for.  However, it looks too similar to a fax or an image that was scanned in or copied at low resolution.  Perhaps try making the background pure white or experiment with other aging techniques.  My next thought was what printer, but I see in comments you are considering Make Playing Cards.  Not the best choice, but a good option for low volume.  However by not listing it the potential backers may question if you thought out and planned all expenses and thus may be worried about it falling apart during printing or fulfillment, but the price and funding goal are in line so maybe not as much of a concern.  Either way though you should pick a printer and make that obvious.

Link to project  - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arsgoetia/ars-goetia-playing-cards-54-cards

Good luck!

[Don Boyer]

I, too, had the same question about who was printing this project when I saw no printer listed in the project description.

The "aged/worn" look is interesting, but I've seen it used and overused so much lately.  Perhaps if you went for something a bit different, something more akin to a woodcut printing?  Maybe even a "sloppy" woodcut printing, with an occasional extraneous drop of ink here and there or an area of an image being smudged a little.

I'd leave out the extra pips on the Aces.  It makes them look more like threes at a glance - the last thing you want to do with a deck of cards is make them easily confused for each other.  One pip in the art and one pip in each of the indices is just fine, the right amount - more than that and it's really not an Ace any more.

I like the overall Gothic look - but I've always been a fan of Sam Hayles/DOSEprod, so that says a lot!