The New Deck Report and More

[Rob Wright]

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The Discourse New Deck Report
By Rob Wright
Report data compiled 12/15/2013

I have asked Don to find someone to take over the NDR.
Unfortunately, I do not have enough time to properly keep this updated. I may also have to take a short hiatus from the forum due to a personal issue.

I want to thank Don for allowing me to play with this for a few months. It's been a pleasure.

For the next person that takes this over, I say good luck. I'll be happy to help if you have a question.

To everybody else. I hope you have enjoyed my updates. I started with a solid foundation from Don, and tried to make it even better.

Thank you to all.

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in alphabetical order. Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$). Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on:  11/04-06/2013- 11/15/2013- 12/01/2013- 12/15/2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Current Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
Bicycle	bmpokercrap  Alice in Wonderland Themed Bicycle Grungeland Playing Cards 2nd try Dec 2, 2013- Jan 16,2014	$15,000	$5,781	$0 $0 $0 $5,781
	Anarchy Enterprises Autocorrect Epic Fail Nov 27, 2013- Jan 1, 2014	$8,500	$65	$0 $0 $65 $65
	Sly Kly  Carbon Fiber Nov 8, 2013- Jan 7, 2014	$35,000	$41,739	$0 $31,375 $38,349 $41,739
Bicycle	DB Designs Clockwork Bicycle®-3rd try Nov 19- Dec 19,2013	£7,500	£2,789	£0 £0 £0 £2,789
	Mercer Pommer, Sam Shariat & L. Rapoport  ColourBlind Dec 7, 2013- Jan 16,2014	$20,000	$4,876	$0 $0 $0 $4,876
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Creepy Nov 24- Dec 24, 2013	$5,000	$9,013	$0 $0 $7,514 $9,013
	Connie Lim Decked Out: Fashion Playing Cards Nov 25- Dec 23, 2013	$10,000	$7,956	$0 $0 $3,434 $7,956
Bicycle	RJ Tomlinson Global Unrest Playing Cards (WWII) Nov 30- Dec 31, 2013	$12,000	$7,266	$0 $0 $3,568 $7,266
Bicycle	4PM DESIGNS Legacy Nov 29, 2013- Jan 24, 2014	$15,000	$11,786	$0 $0 $8,332 $11,786
	Mike Lambert Metropol NOX Nov 12-Dec 17, 2013	$10,000 CAD	$10,861 CAD	$0 $2,810 CAD $6,808 CAD $10,861 CAD
	NDL Design Works Nouveau Luxury Dec 7- Jan 6, 2013	£1,000	£594	£0 £0 £0 £594
USPC	Uusi Pagan Nov 20-Dec 21, 2013	$18,000	$51,606	$0 $0 $44,553 $51,606
	Consorte Marketing Steampunk Goggles Dec 12, 2013- Jan 10, 2013	$24,000	$8,165	$0 $0 $0 $8,165
	Diba Salimi Surena: The Persian Deck Dec 11, 2013- Jan 20, 2013	$15,000	$3,810	$0 $0 $0 $3,810
	David T. Pudelwitts-St. Albans Vampire and Zombie Playing Card Nov 5, 2014- Jan 4, 2014	$3,000	$597	$101 $445 $516 $597
USPC	Gary Hocker WWI 100 yr Anniversary Nov 26-Dec 31/2013	$13,000	$1,697	$0 $0 $1,502 $1,697
USPC	Erik Mana & Alvin Campana Zinfandel & Indigo Nov 19- Dec 20, 2013	$20,000 CAD	$28,080 CAD	$0 $0 $21,397 CAD $28,080

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Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are distributed to backers or on sale through retailers.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page;

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
	Mark Allender  20132014 Playing Cards Series Nov 7- Dec 7, 2013	$1,400	$2,705		Dec 2013
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
Bicycle	Shane Tyree Call of Cthulhu: The Writhing Dark Nov 12- Dec 10, 2013	$18,000	$116,213		April 2014
	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers Oct 26- Nov 6, 2013	$2,100	$5,527		Feb 2014
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$10,040		May 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	RJ Tomlinson Civil Unrest Oct 14-31, 2013	$8,500	$11,787		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$57,168		March 2014
Bicycle	Cardicians Bicycle Dark Templar Oct 16- Nov 15	$15,000	$35,666		March 2014
USPC	Roni Lagin Density Playing Card Deck Oct 11- Nov 15/2013	$12,000	$15,599		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor Blue decks only have been shipped July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		LE Blue 10/13 Red 01/14
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
USPC	TunnelBravo Fanangled Playing Card Deck – v 2.0 Nov 8- Dec 8, 2013	$6,695	$8,607		March 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Scott King The Gentlemen 52: Bicycle® Playing Cards with a Hairy Twist Oct 7-Nov 10/2013	$9,000	$11,221		Dec 2013
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Gods of Mythology Oct 24-Nov 23, 2013	$5,000	$7,244		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards GOLD Bicycle® Oct 24, Nov 23, 2013	$15,000	79,465		March 2014
	Ashley Acton The Grain Back Playing Cards Oct 30-Nov 29, 2013	£1,000	£1,142		Jan 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$5,884		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Nathanael Mortensen Kingdoms of a New World Oct 24- Nov 24, 2013	$18,000	$40,776		July 2014
	Stephen Coffey Location Cards Oct 25- Nov 24, 2013	£900	£9,939		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$16,793		Feb 2014
USPC	Jonathan Beekman The Most Awesome Poker Set in the World Oct 10-Nov 9/2013	$21,000	$22,255		Dec 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
USPC Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Oracle - Mystifying Playing Cards Oct 9-Nov 8 2013	$20,000	$52,198		March 14
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Digital Abstracts Playing Arts - A Deck of Poker Cards by 54 Top Artists Oct 12-Nov 9/2013	£3,000	£19,949		Dec 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
USPC	Erik Dahlman , albinodragon The Princess Bride Oct 22- Nov 26, 2013	$10,000	$136,009		July 2014
USPC	Jackson Robinson, KingsWild Sherlock Holmes Nov 2- Dec 7, 2013	$30,000	$100,288		March 2014
	Corey Papastathis Split Suit Playing Cards Oct 17- Nov 7, 2013	$500	$664 (High was $712)		April 2014
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$44,481		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Sergei Boutenko Wild Edible Poker Cards Oct 11-Nov 11/2013	$4,500	$6,212		March 2014{/td
USPC	Dale Mathis "World's First 3D Metal and Mechanized Playing Cards" Oct 12-Nov 16/2013	$35,000	$148,637		Feb/March 2014
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$9,230		Jan 2014
	Warpunk Games Zombie White Oct 14-28, 2013	$730	$3,883		Dec 2013

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Kickstarter projects that are late

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Nov 25, 2013 comment-"Home Run Decks get here later this week. Cards still going out. Once we have other decks all orders will go out"	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
USPC	Juan Solórzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) Changed to Cartamundi- USPC would not print Alice of Wonderland eliments. June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Nov 12, 2013 Update-We are just waiting for the last three deck designs to be shipped to us (Due in a week or two) Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project " for backers only- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Update #18 - For backers only-Nov 6, 2013-Moving Along Update #19 Dec 3, 2013 Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great thanksgiving, I know I did. I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm very sorry for the delay on the cards. Mpc had a few issues with some of the graphics so I had to do a few minor tweaks for them. I'm waiting on the final ok from them. They have been good with keeping up communication so I know everything will be done very soon. I will post another update as soon as I hear something from them. Thank you all again for being so patient and understanding with all of this. Happy holidays. Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck Nov 26, 2013 comment "Yes we are in rotation at the printer so it depends on their holiday schedule, when I hear a concrete date I'll send out address surveys to get everyone's current address, we're almost there!!" Update #13  Dec 6, 2013 The cards are at the printer and should be finished in the next few weeks!! July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- apparent fraud	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Does anybody know if these have been delivered? ? Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings Nov 14, 2013 KING OF KINGS UPDATE! Hello everyone I have talked to uspcc and printing of KOK will be done by the end of the month. So we will begin shipping around the second week of Decmber. July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Update #8 - For backers only Nov 21, 2013 The tuck box -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update #7 - For backers only Nov 2, 2013 Working with the United States Playing Card Company... Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 No pictures of actual cards- Fraud alert-Update #21 - For backers only Oct 28, 2013 Shipping has resumed... Thanks everyone for your patience and for the kind words and support from those regarding the funeral and subsequent estate settlement.  I have finished a long and tiring process and I'm happy to finally return to work and some sense of normalcy.  I am picking up where I left off with shipping and hopefully you will get your decks soon. Thanks again, Alex	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards0 Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013 Creator posted a comment 11/5/2013-  I did take on more than I can handle - I let my optimism run a bit too wild. I assure you that I'm still working to get these cards and accessories shipped out to everyone but at the moment I'm very swamped with full time work and finishing up the last few remaining orders from my previous project	$10,000	$19,046		Sept 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness Creator Brett Dudo 11/26/2013 Yes!!! I've been packing =) The rewards will be in the mail this week! I was waiting until I actually shipped, but... cat's out of the bag, now. Cheers! June 19-Aug 3, 2013 comment by creator 11/7/2013 I know, I know... I do apologize for the delay. This is my first go at this sort of thing, and the delivery date of September was a bit... heroic. I should have the cards from USPCC in the next week or so, and it should only be a couple days for me to get everything packaged up and delivered. Hang tight! =)	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013 Update #8  Nov 19, 2013 Seelie Update Hey guys, I know there's not been a lot of updates on this project, and I'm sorry about that. I've been really, really busy lately. However, a good chunk of what's keeping me busy has been work on Seelie. Right now, I'm working as many hours as I can, but also taking the occasional moment to spend time with my two sons and wife. My parents have temporarily moved in with me to help with the duties that crop up with a newborn, as well as sometimes learning to play video games to keep my older son entertained when I disappear into the office to figure out how many envelopes I need to buy and how the Scallywags budget is doing (first answer: ~900, second answer: fine, we'll have everything in our warehouse shortly). Also, some people have noticed that I do sometimes log into Kickstarter, but don't post an update. This is because a lot of times I'm just tallying up order numbers, or answering messages, or sometimes just glancing at another person's project. And yes, I am currently finishing up two other projects. I wanted to make sure everyone knew that I've cancelled all public appearances until these three projects are 100% done. I'm also not starting any new projects until these are finished. So yes, we're motivated to get this all out the door.	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013 Print error from USPC- replacment cards expected end of Nov	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Update #19  Nov 23, 2013 Proofs updates After setting the cards aside for most of a week and looking at them again, I did notice a few more errors. Nothing that will require any of the cards to be entirely redrawn, but enough that it will take a little bit of time to fix them and then order more proofs.	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013 Update #8 Nov 9, 2013 Here come the surveys!	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013 Update #31 Nov 20, 2013 Hello everyone! We have heard from the printer and the cards will be ready to ship out to us next week. Everything is printed and glued in the proper spots. We are in the queue to be "finished" and sent.	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013 Update #35 Nov 26, 2013 Shipment progress just a quick note to you all, regarding shipment: Latest update from my fulfillment center says that all decks will have been sent by next week. I was expecting this to happen earlier  but it's beyond my will and control... In any case we're close! Stay tuned! :-) Lotrek	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013 Update #16 - For backers only Nov 1, 2013 Final Changes and delays Sorry gang, this project got delayed much longer than I expected which include a lot of design changes, some of which I'm okay with and some of which I spent a good deal of time and energy pushing back on.  But it's done.  I finally got the final, final copies and agreed to the changes from legal.  So here they are.  I sign the contracts and it's off to printing.	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update #42  Nov 21, 2013 Shipping coming. Hello all, Sorry for the delays. We will be receiving the Black deck on Dec.2. We will get them all to the fulfillment company and they'll go out asap. Enjoy thanksgiving. Thank you so much for your patience.	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013

           

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[Rob Wright]

*The Card Lounge*

*A Spotlight of a Project or Interview*

Welcome to the lounge this week, Peter Dunham and Linnea Gits, of Uusi

After four successful Kisckstarter projects. Uusi will launch their fourth of six planned playing card decks.

I emailed Peter earlier this week about doing this interview. This was his response.

     Sure, we would love to take part and answer as many of the questions as possible. We're always more than happy to share our experience and knowledge as designers, and greatly appreciate the support and interest of the discourse forum members.

Here is two artist that are in the middle of finishing one project. Starting a new one. Oh! and running a business as well. So I say thank you to Peter and Linnea for taking time out of their busy schedule to answer questions for me. 

As explained on the Uusi website.

     Uusi is Finnish for “new”. You pronounce it “oosee”. You see?

About Uusi

Q: How did you come up with the name?

     Peter has cousin's in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that he and his brothers have been fishing and hunting with for years. There is a large Finnish community there and all the guys in the family have given each other Finnish nicknames – Peter's is "Johan" – so when we started Uusi Peter wanted to find a Finnish word to name the company. We chose "Uusi" because it was a new venture for us and because that feeling of discovery is a huge part of our creative drive.

Q: What is your backgrounds/education? What did you do before Uusi?

     Peter went to school for Fine Art. He has a BFA from Northern Illinois University.  I went to school for journalism at Drake University in Iowa. I had always wanted to go to school for art, but my parents were against it. I met Peter over the summer of my third year in college apprenticing at his studio in Chicago and never went back to Drake.  We worked as artists showing in galleries in Chicago, NY & LA and drifted into commercial design through imagery, objects and paintings commissioned for the furniture design company Herman Miller for their headquarters in Zeeland MI and then their National Design Showrooms around the country. That led to another commercial design job, and before we knew it, design work was almost the only thing we were doing. In 2010 we started our own design studio, Uusi.

Q: Do you have other people work in your studio, teach, mentor, have interns, or anything like that?

     We have two part time assistants, Colleen & Annie, who help us with the day to day office and customer service work and from time to time we have interns from Columbia College and the Art Institute.  Both Peter and I guest lecture for the design department at Columbia College and our studio is part of their class field trip program for Design 101 students at Columbia College.

Q: You are partners in Uusi. Are you partners in life?

     Yep, we are married

Q: Are both of you a part of the card projects?

     Yes! As the Lead Creative at Uusi, my job is to concept the sketches and direction of the deck. Then I bring them to Peter, we talk about which ideas are the strongest, land on one and then I go off and sketch out the initial look.  When we are ready to create the final artwork we divvy it up according to each other's artistic strengths. Peter focused on sculpture when he was in school and has incredible drafting skills and a very steady hand for line work. He worked on all the costumes (and always all the weaponry!) for BB, BB Redux & RO.  As a painter I have a much looser, more expressive line,  so I usually create all the faces. I painted all the artwork for Bohemia and now, Pagan.  The decks all are Art Directed by Peter – he'll come in and say things like "No way would there be a sword like that in the 1100's – you need to use one that looks like this."  Or, "You need to make that King's chin a lot shorter." Exciting stuff like that  


Q: Peter has the wood/workshop. Linnea do you help out in the shop? or is it pretty much his baby?

     That is all Peter's world!!

Q: What got you interested in designing playing cards?

     Peter collected cards for quite a while – mostly old, European decks he found on ebay – for inspirational imagery.  In 2010 I had done a card deck for a client and after it was finished Peter thought it would be cool for both of us to work on a deck for our company, Uusi.  We finished it in the spring of 2012 and launched it on Kickstarter shortly thereafter. Blue Blood completely took us by surprise. We learned so much on that deck and from all the backers and card community and Peter wanted to take all that information and apply it again to another deck. He likes to work through a genre to really understand it and that was how we came up with a six deck series.

Q: You are planning 6 card projects. Any chance of doing more(my fingers are crossed)?

     We get asked that question almost daily!! It is incredibly flattering that you and other people would like to see more decks by Uusi!  We do not have plans to make anymore Uusi decks after our sixth deck, but we have been approached by Anthropologie to design a deck for them and there are some very interesting collaborations that are on the horizon for 2014 that may be exciting.

Q: How long does it usually take to design each deck?

     You know...it is hard to say exactly as we work on a lot of projects at the same time at the studio. Working like this it takes about two months from concept to final artwork and final file prep.  Some decks have gone faster than others – it just takes as long as it takes to make it right!

Q: Did you have the ideas for each deck planned from the start?

     No. But we knew we wanted each deck to have a unique look unto itself. Changing the medium we use each time has really helped push that direction and guides the look of the deck.

About Pagan

Q: What was the inspiration for this deck?

     Our love of the forests and lakes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. That feeling of wilderness is intense when you are deep in a forest and when we thought about expressing that feeling visually it took us to the Pagan era in history.

Q: You usually have the card stand, and custom brick box. I assume you will on this one, but any unique wood items for this one?

     We stopped doing a custom printed brick box after Bohemia.  Not sure if we will do one again...but Peter loves creating unique case goods for each project. We will definitely have a new box for Pagan, along with some other surprises

Q: You mentioned having a pre-launch and give away on Facebook?

     Just had it today(Friday)! It will go through the weekend. We pick the winner on Monday. We thought it would be cool to give away one deck (in both colors) from the series to date to celebrate the half-way point in our six deck series and the launch of deck #4, Pagan!

Just go to Uusi's Facebook page. "like" their post, and you can win this.



The future of Uusi

Q: You have 2 more card projects. Do you have a direction you are going with them?

     We started sketches and concepts for deck five already but nothing concrete yet.  I think we may be taking a bit of a break after "Pagan" to focus on other work at the studio and reload our creative ideas for winding up the series!

Q: Has anybody approached you to design a custom deck for them? Would you consider it?

     Yes! We get a lot of requests, but so far there have been only two or three that are a good fit for us.  Time will tell which ones end up making it into the world.

Q: Kickstarter has seemed to be a pretty good outlet for your card projects. Do you have any other type projects in mind for Kickstarter?

     We've definitely thought about it, but right now we are just focusing on completing the playing card series for Uusi!

Q: Don Boyer is a huge presence on the Discourse. Anything you would like to expand about how he has helped you?

     We were big fans of Don's posts on The Discourse before we worked together so it was awesome when he agreed to work with us on Bohemia. His knowledge of the card market, its history and the many ways cards are used professionally is a HUGE bonus for us when we design a deck. With Pagan, when we told Don we wanted to do a borderless back he was excited and really pushed us to keep tweaking the design until it worked for magicians and card players. It was one thing to make it look cool, a whole different thing to make it playable. Without Don's technical help we wouldn't have ended up with the playable design we now have.

Q: Anything else you would like to add about the future of Uusi?

     We are excited to be working with people we respect and on projects we enjoy and have loved meeting all of the people in this community who have made this series meaningful and we hope you keep us on your radar even after our six deck series comes to an end! I know Peter will continue to add to the card cases on the site and we hope to surprise you with a new venture at Uusi in the future!

Some card designs



Links to the previous projects



A few final words

Me: I did carpentry work for 20 years before changing my career to my present job. I do miss sometimes being able to step away from a project, and say I built that.  I try to do wood projects when I can to help fill that gap. I'm not an artist, but I do understand the passion you have for what you do. It shows in the work you put out. Congratulations on all of your success. I know this one will be just as successful as the others. Beautiful work.

     Thanks, Robert! It's awesome that you had experience with woodworking – I definitely understand that feeling of being able to say, "I built that".  Also it's great to have people understand the passion we put in to our work. It really is the driving force behind everything we do at Uusi.

Best regards,

Peter



I want to thank Linnea and Peter again. Best wishes for your new project. I can feel my wallet getting lighter already.



If you are a designer, or have a project, and want it spotlighted. PM me here at the Discourse. 

[Rob Wright]

The Discourse New Deck Report
by Rob Wright
Report data compiled Sunday October 6, 2013

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The Discourse Times

News Update October 6, 2013

• Jackson Robinson announced that the next project for his Kings Wild company will be Sherlock Holmes. After talks with the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, he has received approval to make an officially licensed deck. Jackson plans to start the project around the first of November on KickStarter.
  
  
  
  
  
• Dale Mathis is set to launch his very first Kickstarter project on October 12th. 3D And Mechanical Playing Cards TuckCase
  
  
  
  
  
• Card Experiment to release its third deck Utopia Playing Cards. They will be available for pre-order October 8, 2013
  
  
  
  
  
• Chris Ovdiyenko has launched a new website DeadonPaper.com His next project currently named "Oracle" is set to launch in October(presumed KS) Courtesy TuckCase
  
  
  
  
  

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in order of End Date.  Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$).  Currency amounts for Pledges/Running Totals (below 1,000 units) and Goals are listed in actual dollar amounts, while Pledges/Running Totals (above 1,000 units) are listed in "kilo-units" (k), rounded to the nearest hundred units.  Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on: Sept 30, 2013- Oct 6, 2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
	Skylar Burns 5-in-1 drinking game playing cards Sept 9- Oct 9, 2013	$650 CAD	$218 CAD	$178 CAD $218 CAD
USPC	Adam Mills Anarchy Casino Black Oct 3- Nov 2	£8,500	£336	£0 £336
	Robert Wawrzyniak Blacklight Monster Deck Sept 27-Oct 31, 2013	$5,000	$543	$253 $543
	Philip DaCosta Can-eh-diana Deck Sept 9-Oct 9	$11,000	$1,045 CAD	$0 $1,045 CAD
	Sterling Heibeck Cardomancer Sept 16-Oct 16, 2013	$7,500	$824	$782 $824
USPC	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers "Cartomancer" Playing Cards Sept 20-Oct 20, 2013	$10,000	$4,045	$3,453 $4,045
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$6,528	$4,999 $6,528
Bicyle	RJ Tomlinson Civil Unrest Sept 12-Oct 12, 2013	$14,000	$6,674	$6,170 $6,674
	Xtu Productions CREEPY playing cards Oct 4-25	$5,200	$2,674	$ $2,674
Bicycle	Hurlyburly Games Demograffik Sept 27-Oct 28, 2013	$9,100	$2,613	$1,238 $2,613
	Tyler Shearer Flip 52 Sept 19-Oct 19, 2013	$1,000	$1,203	$918 $1,203
Bicycle	Paul Michael Kane Foto Grafis Sept 30-Nov 9	$8,500	$3,792	$0 $3,792
USPC	Alan Kriegel Gestalt: Modern playing cards for modern times Sept 9-Oct 21	$10,000	$4,082	$0 $4,082
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$1,369	$0 $1,369
Bicyle	Cevin R Cox The League of Monters Sept 27-Oct 31, 2013	$8,000	$2,909	$1.98k $2,909
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$3,671	$0 $3,671
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$24,138	$0 $24,138
USPC	Mike Dawdy and Joshua Hulsebosch Reflections Sep 9-Oct 9,2013	$20,000 CAD	$1,541 CAD	$1.5k CAD $1,541 CAD
Bicycle	James Briggs Renegades & Rogues Oct 1-31	$10,000	$1,117	$0 $1,117
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$29,746	26.1k $29,746
Bicyle	Vincent Tran Wanted Dead or Alive-Wild West Playing Cards Sept 25-Oct 25, 2013	$22,000 CAD	$5,068 CAD	$4.9k CAD $5,068 CAD
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$7,512	$5,789 $7,512

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Successfully-Closed Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are either being distributed to backers or on sale through retailers, whichever comes first.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page and for delivery of decks only, NOT ancillary rewards; est. months in Bold Red have already passed.  All currency amounts are actual, not rounded.

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Update 9/26/2013 "Shipping on Red and Blue decks started" ?	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
	Juan Solorzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project "- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
	Hilary Pfeifer The Bunny with a Toolbelt May 29-July 8, 2013	$12,345	$14,742		Dec 2013
	Peter Dunham & Linnea Gits (Uusi) Blueblood Redux Aug 9-Sept 13, 2013	$9,000	$28,588		Jan 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Paul Carpenter (Encarded) Deco (bronze, silver) July 1-July 29,2013 Delayed due to printing error	$1,000	$29,223		Sep 2013
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Elinor Rooks (Ash and Eli) "Draw Like a Boss" video (Boss Playing Cards reward) Feb 17-Mar 22, 2013 Update 9/17/2013 "The remaining surveys will be going out today"	£30,000	£51,833		July 2013 decks only
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
(?)	Dave Ufford EclecDeck May 8-June 7, 2013 Backer only comment 09/30/2013 ?	$4,500	$5,205		Sep 2013
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Elves & Orcs May24-June 27, 2013	$18,000	$18,382		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		Limited Blue 10/13, Red 01/14
	Lee McKenzie (Kings & Crooks Playing Card Co.) Empire June 18-July 18, 2013	£9,030	£29,782		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- several comments about creator deleting other online accounts	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Alien Ink Galaxy Cards: 2nd Edition (2nd try) June 23-July 23, 2013 Backer only update 10/01/2013 "*Hiccup* "  ?	$3,500	$4,812		Sep 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
USPC	Shea Looijen (Bibelot Games) Hardwood (25 varieties) April 4-May 2, 2013	$900	$27,879		Nov 2013 (early birds), May 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck (unbranded in red, Bicycle-branded in brown) Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	Xtu Productions Iron Kings Sept 12-Sept 27, 2013	$2,000	$2,245		Nov 2013
Bicycle	The Faro Playing Card Co. Dante's Inferno June 13-July 20, 2013 Update 10/3/2013 "USPCC Update: Cards Shipped Today"	$10,000	$10,689		Sep 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
	Teach By Magic Mazing Deck June 21-July 24, 2013	$12,000	$20,067		Dec 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 Update 9/23/13 " I have scheduled my pack and ship weeks to coincide with my vacation so I have ample time to package and ship"	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards) Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013	$10,000	$19,046		Sep 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
(?)	Paul Wheaton Permaculture Aug 10-Sept 9, 2013	$18,500	$70,853		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Mike Guistolise (CollectablePlayingCards.com) Pharaoh Aug 20-Sept 19, 2013	$6,000	$12,226		Nov 2013
USPC	Chris Pallace (Bent Castle Workshops) Pippoglyph II (2nd try) May 24-June 23, 2013 Update 9/5/2013 "So after approving the proof we were confronted with a delivery date of November 12th"	$8,500	$9,226		Aug 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Platinum June 17-July 17, 2013	$15,000	$26,854		Oct 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine (brown, crimson) July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Ari Steffen Radical 80's July 18-Aug 23, 2013	$8,000	$11,945		Dec 2013
USPC	Travis (Indie Boards and Cards) Ross Clan part of "Haggis and Ross Clan Deck" project June 12-June 26, 2013	$10,000	$16,410		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness June 19-Aug 3, 2013 Update 9/10/2013 Short story-Apears has just sent artwork to USPCC, and expects delivery in 3-6 weeks	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Eric Dahlman (Albino Dragon) Synthesis Mar 8-April 26, 2013	$5,000	$67,108		Sept 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Backers only update 10/04/2013 "Lots more cards! "?	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
USPC	Vict Playing Cards Vict (2nd try) Mar 19-April 15, 2013	$5,000	$9,270		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Chris Chelko Whispering Imps June 1-July 1, 2013	$19,775	$34,128		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update 09/18/2013 "Bicycle decks are in and will begin shipping!"	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013
	Blaise Sewell (Feels Right Design) Zombie Shuffle Feb 15-Mar 19, 2013 Update 10/01/2013 "The mailman just picked up about 90% of the rewards and we promise to ship the final decks the minute we get back from LA"	$6,500	$7,369		Aug 2013

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Section not updated yet

Company Projects (Unreleased)

Release dates in blue are projected, in red are actual, in purple are missed.

USPC Brand	Title & Topic Link	Company & Link	(Pre-Release) & Release Dates
(?)	untitled Jason Brumbalow project	Murphy's Magic Supplies
Bicycle	Brimstone, v.2	Circle City Card Co.	Late 2013
	Clipped Wings	Emmanuel José	mid-2013
Bee	Erdnase 1902 Acorn Back (blue; Cambric & Ivory)	CARC
	Imperial (red) (Bicycle-branded brown only on KS)	Midnight Card Company/HOPC
Bicycle	Komodo	Circle City Card Co.	Spring 2013
	Moonshine second printing (improved box, possibly full custom faces)	Enigma, Ltd.
USPC	Nautical Deck (red, blue, ltd. ed. white)	HOPC	Fri 30 Aug 2013 00:00
?	Order of the Magi	Alex Beltechi, artist
USPC	Pr1me Deck, Series 001, 3rd Ed.	Pr1me
USPC	Pr1me Noir	Pr1me
	Propaganda, v.2	Theory11
	Ritual (ltd. ed. gold)	Elite	(Mon 25 Feb 2013)
	Sawdust	Emmanuel José	2013
	Seasons project for Ellusionist (?)	Ellusionist/Seasons
	Seasons (summer, winter) (?)	Seasons
USPC	Year of the Snake	Ace of Wales Playing Cards	before mid-April 2013

Disclaimer: while we at the Discourse strive to be as accurate as possible, we are also human, capable of making errors when entering and updating this report.  We accept no liability for such errors - users of this report are strongly advised to independently verify any data they feel to be of importance for whatever reason.               

[Don Boyer]

Stellar work you're doing here, Rob.  I'm going to let you create a new topic to replace the existing 2013 Releases topic, so as decks from KS and others finally get released, you'll be able to place them there right away.

Awesome stuff.  I love the pictures!

[Fred]

Wow. Thanks Rob and Don. Really, i'm sure we're all extremely appreciative of the effort you guys consistently put into this. Keep it up!

[Anthony]

Nicely done Rob! Has anyone with power ever considered an email Newsletter with this information and maybe some other tidbits? Coming Soon? Hot Prospects? Rumor Mill? Etc....

I think that would be very cool 

[Don Boyer]

Nicely done Rob! Has anyone with power ever considered an email Newsletter with this information and maybe some other tidbits? Coming Soon? Hot Prospects? Rumor Mill? Etc....

I think that would be very cool 

We kind of have that already - check out tuckcase.com!  The site is new, but it's rapidly becoming a solid source of deck information.  No need to reinvent the wheel if the one we have is working just fine, right? 

[Anthony]

Nicely done Rob! Has anyone with power ever considered an email Newsletter with this information and maybe some other tidbits? Coming Soon? Hot Prospects? Rumor Mill? Etc....

I think that would be very cool 

We kind of have that already - check out tuckcase.com!  The site is new, but it's rapidly becoming a solid source of deck information.  No need to reinvent the wheel if the one we have is working just fine, right? 

I already subscribe to Tuckcase, didn't realize it was affiliated with the site, good to know 

[Don Boyer]

Nicely done Rob! Has anyone with power ever considered an email Newsletter with this information and maybe some other tidbits? Coming Soon? Hot Prospects? Rumor Mill? Etc....

I think that would be very cool 

We kind of have that already - check out tuckcase.com!  The site is new, but it's rapidly becoming a solid source of deck information.  No need to reinvent the wheel if the one we have is working just fine, right? 

I already subscribe to Tuckcase, didn't realize it was affiliated with the site, good to know 

They're NOT affiliated.  Scott's a member, though.  As I said, why reinvent the wheel?

Prior to him, there was a really sweet blog on Wordpress called 52Cartes by a Frenchman named Remi.  That was a GREAT site, but something happened a handful of months ago and no one has heard what, or at the least hasn't revealed it - the site is gone.

[Rob Wright]

The Discourse New Deck Report
by Rob Wright
Report data compiled Sunday October 14, 2013

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*The Card Lounge*

*A Weekly Spotlight of a Project or Interview*

Welcome to the lounge this week, Chris Ovdiyenko

   After a very successful first card project Calaveras Chris has started his new project Oracle. The project started on October 9th and will end November 8th. After only 4 days in, he is already over $13,600 of his $20,000 goal. You can get the cards, along with matching woodcut prints and t-shirts on Kickstarter.Chris was very gracious to take time out of his busy schedule, and answer some questions for me.

Q: Chris, I'm sure you get this question a lot, but what got you interested in designing cards?
A: I'm a creative director and missed designing and actually making things. I also collected playing cards and thought, why not? I had such a great experience with the Calaveras project that I decided to keep going and launch a second deck.

Q:  What is your background in design?
A: I actually went to art school for metal sculpture. That didn't really pan out for me, so I made my way into design.

Quick explanation of woodcut prints.
The process is to have the designs laser etched onto wood plates, I ink the plates, then run them through my press on museum-grade artist paper.



Here's an example of the detail this process makes possible (art is from my last project)



Q: Is making a woodcut print similar to the way a rubber stamp works?
A: It's similar, but takes a lot more artistry to pull a consistent even print. The press makes that a lot easier.

Q: I noticed the picture of the press. Thinking about other designers that may want to try this. As far as set up, and price of getting wood etched. Would you consider it a long term investment, or could someone get started fairly cheap?
A: It's definitely an investment. The press cost about 4K, the drying racks are about 1K each and I needed to get 2 of them. The rest is fairly reasonable in cost (inking station, inks, paper). But it was considerable setup.

Q: Would you possibly consider doing this on the side for other designers? 
A: Probably not, I have a resource for creating the plates, but it's not the fastest process especially in quantity.

Q: Is it possible to do more than 1 color on these prints?
A: It is, but it complicates things in terms of setup and also execution. Basically it requires a VERY accurate registration system and doubles the cost in terms of plates and also print runs and drying time. The inks I use take about 5 days to dry completely. So basically it comes down to cost - I think I would try it on a future project to see if people would go for that, but with Oracle I didn't want to complicate production since I need to fulfill on Calaveras at the same time.

Q: Anything else you would like to add about the process?
A: Just that it’s really amazing that the KS community has supported it. Printmaking in general has really suffered in recent years as just about anyone can snag an image and hit the print button. It's cool to know people understand the difference between commercial printing and artistic printing.
 
Q: The Oracle Project. How did you come up with the theme of this deck?
A: Honestly, about a month and a half ago I was looking at buying a t-shirt with a talking board design on it. I fell in love with the look and mentioned to my wife that it would make a great deck of cards but there wasn't enough material to support a whole deck (royals being this biggest problem). She had been reading about the Spiritualist movement and suggested I read a little too. So I did, and I realized that it wasn't just going to be possible, it was going to be completely unique, amazing, and fit together really well. It all just fell into place and with Halloween coming up, I wanted to get it going as soon as I could. The hardest part has been figuring out how to give the deck a spooky edge without being cheesy. I'm feeling pretty good that the deck is getting it right on both fronts.

Q: Do you plan on adding a second version during the project? Possibly a Bicycle branded deck?
A: I'm considering it, but there is already so much type on the box, I'm worried that it'll conflict   having the Bicycle logo. I also kinda like the idea of launching projects without leaning on the Bicycle brand too heavily.

Q: Other possible stretch goals?
A: I've got some ideas, but it's probably better to take them one at a time.

Q: About the future. Do you still plan to do the LE Black Calaveras deck?
A: Yep, but I have a card project that will come after Oracle and will take a few months to get ready for. I don't want to say too much, but it will push my artistic abilities to my own limits. It's in a style that uses scratchboard like I have been, but is SUPER difficult to pull off. I'm really excited to try though and I plan on it going live on KS around April.

Q: Both the Calaveras and oracle decks have kind of a dark theme.  Do you think you will stay in this style?
A: Probably not, my next deck idea isn't going to be as dark, and I'd hate to be known for only doing "dark" decks. It's a weird thing though - people start to know you for one thing and it can be easy to get categorized. I don't think any artist wants to be "typecast."

Q: Anything else you would like to add?
A: Just that I'm so excited to be running another project on KS and love this community!

I want to thank Chris for taking the time to answer my questions. I emailed Chris earlier in the week asking him to do an interview. He said he had just launched the project, and would be happy to send some information. He didn't know me, or who I was. For all he Knew I am just some crazy nut fan. So again Thank you. I'll leave you with a few pictures of the project.

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in order of End Date.  Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$).  Currency amounts for Pledges/Running Totals (below 1,000 units) and Goals are listed in actual dollar amounts, while Pledges/Running Totals (above 1,000 units) are listed in "kilo-units" (k), rounded to the nearest hundred units.  Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on: Sept 30, 2013- Oct 6, 2013- Oct 14,2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
	AlieN InK∞ Infinity Edition Galaxy Cards ∞ Oct9-17/2013	$88	$3,979	$0 $0 $3,979
USPC	Adam Mills Anarchy Casino Black Oct 3- Nov 2	£8,500	£435	£0 £336 £435
	Robert Wawrzyniak Blacklight Monster Deck Sept 27-Oct 31, 2013	$5,000	$526	$253 $543 $526
	Sterling Heibeck Cardomancer Sept 16-Oct 16, 2013	$7,500	$824	$782 $824 $824
USPC	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers "Cartomancer" Playing Cards Sept 20-Oct 20, 2013	$10,000	$4,475	$3,453 $4,045 $4,475
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$7,160	$4,999 $6,528 $7,160
	Xtu Productions CREEPY playing cards Oct 4-25	$5,200	$3,319	$0 $2,674 $3,319
Bicycle	Hurlyburly Games Demograffik Sept 27-Oct 28, 2013	$9,100	$3,213	$1,238 $2,613 $3,213
USPC	Roni LaginDensity Playing Card Deck Oct 11- Nov 15/2013	$12,000	$5,281	$0 $0 $5,281
	Tyler Shearer Flip 52 Sept 19-Oct 19, 2013	$1,000	$1,515	$918 $1,203 $1,515
Bicycle	Paul Michael Kane Foto Grafis Sept 30-Nov 9	$8,500	$4,374	$0 $3,792 $4,374
Bicycle	Scott KingThe Gentlemen 52: Bicycle® Playing Cards with a Hairy Twist Oct 7-Nov 10/2013	$9,000	$3,178	$0 $0 $3,178
USPC	Alan Kriegel Gestalt: Modern playing cards for modern times Sept 9-Oct 21	$10,000	$4,240	$0 $4,082 $4,240
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$2,663	$0 $1,369 $2,663
	Wesley TranKNOCK ON WOOD // GOOD LUCK WITH THAT Oct 8-Nov 22/2013	$70,000	$1,121	$0 $0 $1,121
Bicyle	Cevin R Cox The League of Monters Sept 27-Oct 31, 2013	$8,000	$3,201	$1.98k $2,909 $3,201
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$4,236	$0 $3,671 $4,236
	Jonathan BeekmanThe Most Awesome Poker Set in the World Oct 10-Nov 9/2013	$21,000	$7,142	$0 $0 $7,142
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$31,305	$0 $24,138 $31,305
	Chris OvdiyenkoOracle - Mystifying Playing Cards Oct 9-Nov 8 2013		$13,697	$0 $0 $13,697
	Digital Abstracts Playing Arts - A Deck of Poker Cards by 54 Top Artists Oct 12-Nov 9/2013	£3,000	£2,039	£0 £0 £2,039
Bicycle	James Briggs Renegades & Rogues Oct 1-31	$10,000	$1,436	$0 $1,436
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$34,250	26.1k $29,746 $34,250
Bicyle	Vincent Tran Wanted Dead or Alive-Wild West Playing Cards Sept 25-Oct 25, 2013	$22,000 CAD	$5,531 CAD	$4.9k CAD $5,068 CAD $5,531 CAD
	Sergei Boutenko Wild Edible Poker Cards Oct 11-Nov 11/2013	$4,500	$583	$0 $0 $583
	Dale Mathis "World's First 3D Metal and Mechanized Playing Cards" Oct 12-Nov 16/2013	$35,000	$31,632	$0 $0 $$31,632

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Successfully-Closed Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are either being distributed to backers or on sale through retailers, whichever comes first.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page and for delivery of decks only, NOT ancillary rewards; est. months in Bold Red have already passed.  All currency amounts are actual, not rounded.

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Update 9/26/2013 "Shipping on Red and Blue decks started" ?	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
	Juan Solorzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project "- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
	Hilary Pfeifer The Bunny with a Toolbelt May 29-July 8, 2013	$12,345	$14,742		Dec 2013
	Peter Dunham & Linnea Gits (Uusi) Blueblood Redux Aug 9-Sept 13, 2013	$9,000	$28,588		Jan 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Paul Carpenter (Encarded) Deco (bronze, silver) July 1-July 29,2013 Delayed due to printing error	$1,000	$29,223		Sep 2013
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Elinor Rooks (Ash and Eli) "Draw Like a Boss" video (Boss Playing Cards reward) Feb 17-Mar 22, 2013 Creator Ash and Eli 4 days ago  A lot of the rewards have gone out, shipping 800+ packages, by george! Tis no piddly task. 10/10/13	£30,000	£51,833		July 2013 decks only
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
(?)	Dave Ufford EclecDeck May 8-June 7, 2013 For Backers Only No delivery yet - Activity in Denver on Saturday 10/11/2013 ?	$4,500	$5,205		Sep 2013
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Elves & Orcs May24-June 27, 2013	$18,000	$18,382		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		Limited Blue 10/13, Red 01/14
	Lee McKenzie (Kings & Crooks Playing Card Co.) Empire June 18-July 18, 2013	£9,030	£29,782		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- several comments about creator deleting other online accounts	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
USPC	Shea Looijen (Bibelot Games) Hardwood (25 varieties) April 4-May 2, 2013	$900	$27,879		Nov 2013 (early birds), May 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck (unbranded in red, Bicycle-branded in brown) Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	Xtu Productions Iron Kings Sept 12-Sept 27, 2013	$2,000	$2,245		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
	Teach By Magic Mazing Deck June 21-July 24, 2013	$12,000	$20,067		Dec 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 Update 9/23/13 " I have scheduled my pack and ship weeks to coincide with my vacation so I have ample time to package and ship"	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards) Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013	$10,000	$19,046		Sep 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
(?)	Paul Wheaton Permaculture Aug 10-Sept 9, 2013	$18,500	$70,853		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Mike Guistolise (CollectablePlayingCards.com) Pharaoh Aug 20-Sept 19, 2013	$6,000	$12,226		Nov 2013
USPC	Chris Pallace (Bent Castle Workshops) Pippoglyph II (2nd try) May 24-June 23, 2013 Update 9/5/2013 "So after approving the proof we were confronted with a delivery date of November 12th"	$8,500	$9,226		Aug 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Platinum June 17-July 17, 2013	$15,000	$26,854		Oct 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine (brown, crimson) July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Ari Steffen Radical 80's July 18-Aug 23, 2013	$8,000	$11,945		Dec 2013
USPC	Travis (Indie Boards and Cards) Ross Clan part of "Haggis and Ross Clan Deck" project June 12-June 26, 2013	$10,000	$16,410		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness June 19-Aug 3, 2013 Update 9/10/2013 Short story-Apears has just sent artwork to USPCC, and expects delivery in 3-6 weeks	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Backers only update 10/04/2013 "Lots more cards! "?	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
USPC	Vict Playing Cards Vict (2nd try) Mar 19-April 15, 2013	$5,000	$9,270		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Chris Chelko Whispering Imps June 1-July 1, 2013	$19,775	$34,128		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update 09/18/2013 "Bicycle decks are in and will begin shipping!"	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$9,230		Jan 2014

Disclaimer: while we at the Discourse strive to be as accurate as possible, we are also human, capable of making errors when entering and updating this report.  We accept no liability for such errors - users of this report are strongly advised to independently verify any data they feel to be of importance for whatever reason.               

[Rob Wright]

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Sorry to everyone that this has not been updated in a couple weeks. I had a few issues with my home. Had to replace my heating system. In the process found out there was damage to my home as well. In the process of fixing it, I pulled a muscle in my shoulder (thank god for flexeril, and vicodin). And of course my dog ate my homework

The Discourse New Deck Report
By Rob Wright
Report data compiled 11/4-6/2013

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in alphabetical order. Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$). Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on:  10/6/2013- 10/14/2013- 11/04-06/2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Current Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers Oct 26- Nov 6, 2013	$2,100	$5,084	$0 $0 $5,084
	J. Tokolics & Corsa Advertising, LLC Cats & Kittens Oct 14-Nov 13, 2013	$$3,500	$316	$0 $0 $316
Bicycle	DB Designs Clockwork Bicycle® Nov 1- Dec 6,2013	£8,000	£647	£0 £0 £647
Bicycle	Cobey Pile Comic Con, Bicycle© Oct 22-Nov 30, 2013	$9,500	$	$0 $0 $3,649
Bicycle	Cardicians Bicycle Dark Templar Oct 16- Nov 15	$15,000	$28,944	$0 $0 $28,944
USPC	Roni Lagin Density Playing Card Deck Oct 11- Nov 15/2013	$12,000	$13,981	$0 $5,281 $13,981
Bicycle	Paul Michael Kane Foto Grafis Sept 30-Nov 9	$8,500	$5,187	$3,792 $4,374 $5,187
Bicycle	Scott King The Gentlemen 52: Bicycle® Playing Cards with a Hairy Twist Oct 7-Nov 10/2013	$9,000	$5,901	$0 $3,178 $5,901
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Gods of Mythology Oct 24-Nov 23, 2013	$5,000	$5,598	$0 $0 $5,598
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards GOLD Bicycle® Oct 24, Nov 23, 2013	$15,000	$56,631	$0 $0 $56,631
	Ashley Acton The Grain Back Playing Cards Oct 30-Nov 29, 2013	£1,000	£665	£0 £0 £665
Bicycle	Bmpokerworld Grungeland Oct 28-Nov 27, 2013	$15,000	$4,464	$0 $0 $4,464
	Ars Felix HOUDINI Magic Séance Oct 31- Dec 7, 2013	$12,000	$3,465	$0 $0 $3,465
Bicycle	Nathanael Mortensen Kingdoms of a New World Oct 24- Nov 24, 2013	$18,000	$19,606	$0 $0 $19,606
	Wesley Tran KNOCK ON WOOD // GOOD LUCK WITH THAT Oct 8-Nov 22/2013	$70,000	$1,626	$0 $1,121 $1,626
Bicyle	Cevin R Cox The League of Monsters Nov 4-20, 2013	$1,000	$742	$0 $0 $742
	Stephen Coffey Location Cards Oct 25- Nov 24, 2013	£900	£3,834	£0 £0 £3,834
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$12,159	$3,671 $4,236 $12159
	Jonathan Beekman The Most Awesome Poker Set in the World Oct 10-Nov 9/2013	$21,000	$18,458	$0 $7,142 $18,458
	Chris OvdiyenkoOracle - Mystifying Playing Cards Oct 9-Nov 8 2013	$20,000	$38,793	$0 $13,697 $38,793
	Tom Casper Playing cards from the Salon De Magie museum of magic Oct 21- Nov 20, 2013	$9,500	$587	$0 $0 $587
	Digital Abstracts Playing Arts - A Deck of Poker Cards by 54 Top Artists Oct 12-Nov 9/2013	£3,000	£15,815	£0 £2,039 £15,815
Bicycle	Cy The Persian Empire (ROYAL EDITION) Oct 16- Nov 15, 2013	$13,000	$4,315	$0 $0 $4,315
USPC	Erik Dahlman , albinodragon The Princess Bride Oct 22- Nov 26, 2013	$10,000	$43,557	$0 $0 $43,557
USPC	Jackson Robinson, KingsWild Sherlock Holmes Nov 2- Dec 7, 2013	$30,000	$70,382	$0 $0 $70,382
	Corey Papastathis Split Suit Playing Cards Oct 17- Nov 7, 2013	$500	$712	$0 $0 $712
	David T. Pudelwitts-St. Albans Vampire and Zombie Playing Card Nov 5- Dec 4, 2013	$3,000	$101	$0 $0 $101
	Sergei Boutenko Wild Edible Poker Cards Oct 11-Nov 11/2013	$4,500	$4,131	$0 $583 $4,131
	Dale Mathis "World's First 3D Metal and Mechanized Playing Cards" Oct 12-Nov 16/2013	$35,000	$109,514	$0 $31,632 $109,514

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Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are distributed to backers or on sale through retailers.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page; est. months in Bold Red have already passed.

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Update 9/26/2013 "Shipping on Red and Blue decks started" ?	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
	Juan Solórzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project "- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
	Hilary Pfeifer The Bunny with a Toolbelt May 29-July 8, 2013	$12,345	$14,742		Dec 2013
	Peter Dunham & Linnea Gits (Uusi) Blueblood Redux Aug 9-Sept 13, 2013	$9,000	$28,588		Jan 2014
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$10,040		May 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$57,168		March 2014
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
(?)	Dave Ufford EclecDeck May 8-June 7, 2013 For Backers Only No delivery yet - Activity in Denver on Saturday 10/11/2013 ?	$4,500	$5,205		Sep 2013
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Elves & Orcs May24-June 27, 2013	$18,000	$18,382		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		LE Blue 10/13 Red 01/14
	Lee McKenzie (Kings & Crooks Playing Card Co.) Empire June 18-July 18, 2013	£9,030	£29,782		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- several comments about creator deleting other online accounts	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
USPC	Shea Looijen (Bibelot Games) Hardwood April 4-May 2, 2013	$900	$27,879		Nov 2013 (early birds), May 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$5,884		Dec 2013
	Xtu Productions Iron Kings Sept 12-Sept 27, 2013	$2,000	$2,245		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
	Teach By Magic Mazing Deck June 21-July 24, 2013	$12,000	$20,067		Dec 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 Update 9/23/13 " I have scheduled my pack and ship weeks to coincide with my vacation so I have ample time to package and ship"	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards0 Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013	$10,000	$19,046		Sept 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
(?)	Paul Wheaton Permaculture Aug 10-Sept 9, 2013	$18,500	$70,853		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Mike Guistolise (CollectablePlayingCards.com) Pharaoh Aug 20-Sept 19, 2013	$6,000	$12,226		Nov 2013
USPC	Chris Pallace (Bent Castle Workshops) Pippoglyph II (2nd try) May 24-June 23, 2013 Update 9/5/2013 "So after approving the proof we were confronted with a delivery date of November 12th"	$8,500	$9,226		Aug 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Ari Steffen Radical 80's July 18-Aug 23, 2013	$8,000	$11,945		Dec 2013
USPC	Travis (Indie Boards and Cards) Ross Clan part of "Haggis and Ross Clan Deck" project June 12-June 26, 2013	$10,000	$16,410		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness June 19-Aug 3, 2013 Update 9/10/2013 Short story-Apears has just sent artwork to USPCC, and expects delivery in 3-6 weeks	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$44,481		Feb 2014
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Backers only update 10/04/2013 "Lots more cards! "?	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Chris Chelko Whispering Imps June 1-July 1, 2013	$19,775	$34,128		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update 09/18/2013 "Bicycle decks are in and will begin shipping!"	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$9,230		Jan 2014

           

Disclaimer: while we at the Discourse strive to be as accurate as possible, we are also human, capable of making errors when entering and updating this report.  We accept no liability for such errors - users of this report are strongly advised to independently verify any data they feel to be of importance for whatever reason.               

[Rob Wright]

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The Discourse New Deck Report
By Rob Wright
Report data compiled 11/15/2013

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in alphabetical order. Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$). Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on:  11/04-06/2013- 11/15/2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Current Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
	Mark Allender  2013 Playing Cards Series Nov 7- Dec 7, 2013	$1,400	$549	$0 $549
Bicycle	Shane Tyree Call of Cthulhu: The Writhing Dark Nov 12- Dec 10, 2013	$18,000	$29,329	$0 $29,329
	Sly Kly  Carbon Fiber Nov 8, 2013- Jan 7, 2014	$35,000	$31,375	$0 $31,375
Bicycle	DB Designs Clockwork Bicycle® Nov 1- Dec 6,2013	£8,000	£753	£647 £753
Bicycle	Cobey Pile Comic Con, Bicycle© Oct 22-Nov 30, 2013	$9,500	$4,261	$3,649 $4,261
USPC	Xtu Productions CRYSTALLUM Nov 8- Dec 8, 2013	$6,900	$1,714	$0 $1,714
Bicycle	Cthulhu Project Cthulhu Playing Cards Nov 7- Dec 8, 2013	£20,000	£6,176	£0 £6,176
Bicycle	Yuk Wah Dragon Dynasty Nov 13-Dec 13,2013	£8,000	£1,657	£0 £1,657
USPC	TunnelBravo Fanangled Playing Card Deck – v 2.0 Nov 8- Dec 8, 2013	$6,695	$5,311	$0 $5,311
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Gods of Mythology Oct 24-Nov 23, 2013	$5,000	$6,140	$5,598 $6,140
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards GOLD Bicycle® Oct 24, Nov 23, 2013	$15,000	$64,449	$56,631 $64,449
	Ashley Acton The Grain Back Playing Cards Oct 30-Nov 29, 2013	£1,000	£800	£665 £800
Bicycle	Bmpokerworld Grungeland Oct 28-Nov 27, 2013	$15,000	$4,970	$4,464 $4,970
	Ars Felix HOUDINI Magic Séance Oct 31- Dec 7, 2013	$12,000	$3,778	$3,465 $3,788
	deluna shop IOH Nov 5- Dec 5, 2013	$7,000	$197	$0 $197
Bicycle	Nathanael Mortensen Kingdoms of a New World Oct 24- Nov 24, 2013	$18,000	$29,003	$19,606 29,003
Bicyle	Cevin R Cox The League of Monsters Nov 4-20, 2013	$1,000	$1,541	$742 $1,541
	Stephen Coffey Location Cards Oct 25- Nov 24, 2013	£900	£6,239	£0 £3,834 £6,239
	Mike Lambert Metropol NOX Nov 12-Dec 17, 2013	$10,000 CAD	$2,810 CAD	$0 $2,810 CAD
Bicycle	Philip Atherton    Mr. BIG Nov 13-Dec 13,2013	£10,000	£443	£0 £443
	Tom Casper Playing cards from the Salon De Magie museum of magic Oct 21- Nov 20, 2013	$9,500	$557	$587 $557
USPC	Erik Dahlman , albinodragon The Princess Bride Oct 22- Nov 26, 2013	$10,000	$58,315	$43,557 $58,315
USPC	Jackson Robinson, KingsWild Sherlock Holmes Nov 2- Dec 7, 2013	$30,000	$83,547	$70,382 $83,547
	David T. Pudelwitts-St. Albans Vampire and Zombie Playing Card Nov 5- Dec 4, 2013	$3,000	$445	$101 $445
USPC	Dale Mathis "World's First 3D Metal and Mechanized Playing Cards" Oct 12-Nov 16/2013	$35,000	$135,012	$31,632 $109,514 $135,012

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Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are distributed to backers or on sale through retailers.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page; est. months in Bold Red have already passed.

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Update 9/26/2013 "Shipping on Red and Blue decks started" ?	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
	Juan Solórzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project "- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
	Hilary Pfeifer The Bunny with a Toolbelt May 29-July 8, 2013	$12,345	$14,742		Dec 2013
	Peter Dunham & Linnea Gits (Uusi) Blueblood Redux Aug 9-Sept 13, 2013	$9,000	$28,588		Jan 2014
	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers Oct 26- Nov 6, 2013	$2,100	$5,527		Feb 2014
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$10,040		May 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	RJ Tomlinson Civil Unrest Oct 14-31, 2013	$8,500	$11,787		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$57,168		March 2014
Bicycle	Cardicians Bicycle Dark Templar Oct 16- Nov 15	$15,000	$35,666		March 2014
USPC	Roni Lagin Density Playing Card Deck Oct 11- Nov 15/2013	$12,000	$15,599		Feb 2014
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		LE Blue 10/13 Red 01/14
	Lee McKenzie (Kings & Crooks Playing Card Co.) Empire June 18-July 18, 2013	£9,030	£29,782		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- several comments about creator deleting other online accounts	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
Bicycle	Scott King The Gentlemen 52: Bicycle® Playing Cards with a Hairy Twist Oct 7-Nov 10/2013	$9,000	$11,221		Dec 2013
USPC	Shea Looijen (Bibelot Games) Hardwood April 4-May 2, 2013	$900	$27,879		Nov 2013 (early birds), May 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	AlieN InK∞ Infinity Edition Galaxy Cards ∞ Oct9-17/2013	$88	$4,587		Dec 2013
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$5,884		Dec 2013
	Xtu Productions Iron Kings Sept 12-Sept 27, 2013	$2,000	$2,245		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
	Teach By Magic Mazing Deck June 21-July 24, 2013	$12,000	$20,067		Dec 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$16,793		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 Update 9/23/13 " I have scheduled my pack and ship weeks to coincide with my vacation so I have ample time to package and ship"	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
USPC	Jonathan Beekman The Most Awesome Poker Set in the World Oct 10-Nov 9/2013	$21,000	$22,255		Dec 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards0 Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013 Creator posted a comment 11/6/2013-  I did take on more than I can handle - I let my optimism run a bit too wild. I assure you that I'm still working to get these cards and accessories shipped out to everyone but at the moment I'm very swamped with full time work and finishing up the last few remaining orders from my previous project	$10,000	$19,046		Sept 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
USPC Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Oracle - Mystifying Playing Cards Oct 9-Nov 8 2013	$20,000	$52,198		March 14
(?)	Paul Wheaton Permaculture Aug 10-Sept 9, 2013	$18,500	$70,853		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Mike Guistolise (CollectablePlayingCards.com) Pharaoh Aug 20-Sept 19, 2013	$6,000	$12,226		Nov 2013
USPC	Chris Pallace (Bent Castle Workshops) Pippoglyph II (2nd try) May 24-June 23, 2013 Update 11/11/2013 "The decks should arrive very soon so we are gearing up for operation ship-out decks"	$8,500	$9,226		Aug 2013
	Digital Abstracts Playing Arts - A Deck of Poker Cards by 54 Top Artists Oct 12-Nov 9/2013	£3,000	£19,949		Dec 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Ari Steffen Radical 80's July 18-Aug 23, 2013	$8,000	$11,945		Dec 2013
USPC	Travis (Indie Boards and Cards) Ross Clan part of "Haggis and Ross Clan Deck" project June 12-June 26, 2013	$10,000	$16,410		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness June 19-Aug 3, 2013 comment by creator 11/7/2013 I know, I know... I do apologize for the delay. This is my first go at this sort of thing, and the delivery date of September was a bit... heroic. I should have the cards from USPCC in the next week or so, and it should only be a couple days for me to get everything packaged up and delivered. Hang tight! =)	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
	Corey Papastathis Split Suit Playing Cards Oct 17- Nov 7, 2013	$500	$664 (High was $712)		April 2014
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$44,481		Feb 2014
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Backers only update 11/6/2013 The art is done!	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013 Update 10/29/2013 Decks expected after Late November	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Chris Chelko Whispering Imps June 1-July 1, 2013	$19,775	$34,128		Dec 2013
	Sergei Boutenko Wild Edible Poker Cards Oct 11-Nov 11/2013	$4,500	$6,212		March 2014{/td
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update 09/18/2013 "Bicycle decks are in and will begin shipping!"	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$9,230		Jan 2014
	Warpunk Games Zombie White Oct 14-28, 2013	$730	$3,883		Dec 2013

           

Disclaimer: while we at the Discourse strive to be as accurate as possible, we are also human, capable of making errors when entering and updating this report.  We accept no liability for such errors - users of this report are strongly advised to independently verify any data they feel to be of importance for whatever reason.               

[Rob Wright]

*The Card Lounge*

*A Spotlight of a Project or Interview*

Welcome to the lounge this week, Peter Dunham and Linnea Gits, of Uusi

After four successful Kisckstarter projects. Uusi will launch their fourth of six planned playing card decks.

I emailed Peter earlier this week about doing this interview. This was his response.

     Sure, we would love to take part and answer as many of the questions as possible. We're always more than happy to share our experience and knowledge as designers, and greatly appreciate the support and interest of the discourse forum members.

Here is two artist that are in the middle of finishing one project. Starting a new one. Oh! and running a business as well. So I say thank you to Peter and Linnea for taking time out of their busy schedule to answer questions for me. 

As explained on the Uusi website.

     Uusi is Finnish for “new”. You pronounce it “oosee”. You see?

About Uusi

Q: How did you come up with the name?

     Peter has cousin's in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that he and his brothers have been fishing and hunting with for years. There is a large Finnish community there and all the guys in the family have given each other Finnish nicknames – Peter's is "Johan" – so when we started Uusi Peter wanted to find a Finnish word to name the company. We chose "Uusi" because it was a new venture for us and because that feeling of discovery is a huge part of our creative drive.

Q: What is your backgrounds/education? What did you do before Uusi?

     Peter went to school for Fine Art. He has a BFA from Northern Illinois University.  I went to school for journalism at Drake University in Iowa. I had always wanted to go to school for art, but my parents were against it. I met Peter over the summer of my third year in college apprenticing at his studio in Chicago and never went back to Drake.  We worked as artists showing in galleries in Chicago, NY & LA and drifted into commercial design through imagery, objects and paintings commissioned for the furniture design company Herman Miller for their headquarters in Zeeland MI and then their National Design Showrooms around the country. That led to another commercial design job, and before we knew it, design work was almost the only thing we were doing. In 2010 we started our own design studio, Uusi.

Q: Do you have other people work in your studio, teach, mentor, have interns, or anything like that?

     We have two part time assistants, Colleen & Annie, who help us with the day to day office and customer service work and from time to time we have interns from Columbia College and the Art Institute.  Both Peter and I guest lecture for the design department at Columbia College and our studio is part of their class field trip program for Design 101 students at Columbia College.

Q: You are partners in Uusi. Are you partners in life?

     Yep, we are married

Q: Are both of you a part of the card projects?

     Yes! As the Lead Creative at Uusi, my job is to concept the sketches and direction of the deck. Then I bring them to Peter, we talk about which ideas are the strongest, land on one and then I go off and sketch out the initial look.  When we are ready to create the final artwork we divvy it up according to each other's artistic strengths. Peter focused on sculpture when he was in school and has incredible drafting skills and a very steady hand for line work. He worked on all the costumes (and always all the weaponry!) for BB, BB Redux & RO.  As a painter I have a much looser, more expressive line,  so I usually create all the faces. I painted all the artwork for Bohemia and now, Pagan.  The decks all are Art Directed by Peter – he'll come in and say things like "No way would there be a sword like that in the 1100's – you need to use one that looks like this."  Or, "You need to make that King's chin a lot shorter." Exciting stuff like that  


Q: Peter has the wood/workshop. Linnea do you help out in the shop? or is it pretty much his baby?

     That is all Peter's world!!

Q: What got you interested in designing playing cards?

     Peter collected cards for quite a while – mostly old, European decks he found on ebay – for inspirational imagery.  In 2010 I had done a card deck for a client and after it was finished Peter thought it would be cool for both of us to work on a deck for our company, Uusi.  We finished it in the spring of 2012 and launched it on Kickstarter shortly thereafter. Blue Blood completely took us by surprise. We learned so much on that deck and from all the backers and card community and Peter wanted to take all that information and apply it again to another deck. He likes to work through a genre to really understand it and that was how we came up with a six deck series.

Q: You are planning 6 card projects. Any chance of doing more(my fingers are crossed)?

     We get asked that question almost daily!! It is incredibly flattering that you and other people would like to see more decks by Uusi!  We do not have plans to make anymore Uusi decks after our sixth deck, but we have been approached by Anthropologie to design a deck for them and there are some very interesting collaborations that are on the horizon for 2014 that may be exciting.

Q: How long does it usually take to design each deck?

     You know...it is hard to say exactly as we work on a lot of projects at the same time at the studio. Working like this it takes about two months from concept to final artwork and final file prep.  Some decks have gone faster than others – it just takes as long as it takes to make it right!

Q: Did you have the ideas for each deck planned from the start?

     No. But we knew we wanted each deck to have a unique look unto itself. Changing the medium we use each time has really helped push that direction and guides the look of the deck.

About Pagan

Q: What was the inspiration for this deck?

     Our love of the forests and lakes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. That feeling of wilderness is intense when you are deep in a forest and when we thought about expressing that feeling visually it took us to the Pagan era in history.

Q: You usually have the card stand, and custom brick box. I assume you will on this one, but any unique wood items for this one?

     We stopped doing a custom printed brick box after Bohemia.  Not sure if we will do one again...but Peter loves creating unique case goods for each project. We will definitely have a new box for Pagan, along with some other surprises

Q: You mentioned having a pre-launch and give away on Facebook?

     Just had it today(Friday)! It will go through the weekend. We pick the winner on Monday. We thought it would be cool to give away one deck (in both colors) from the series to date to celebrate the half-way point in our six deck series and the launch of deck #4, Pagan!

Just go to Uusi's Facebook page. "like" their post, and you can win this.



The future of Uusi

Q: You have 2 more card projects. Do you have a direction you are going with them?

     We started sketches and concepts for deck five already but nothing concrete yet.  I think we may be taking a bit of a break after "Pagan" to focus on other work at the studio and reload our creative ideas for winding up the series!

Q: Has anybody approached you to design a custom deck for them? Would you consider it?

     Yes! We get a lot of requests, but so far there have been only two or three that are a good fit for us.  Time will tell which ones end up making it into the world.

Q: Kickstarter has seemed to be a pretty good outlet for your card projects. Do you have any other type projects in mind for Kickstarter?

     We've definitely thought about it, but right now we are just focusing on completing the playing card series for Uusi!

Q: Don Boyer is a huge presence on the Discourse. Anything you would like to expand about how he has helped you?

     We were big fans of Don's posts on The Discourse before we worked together so it was awesome when he agreed to work with us on Bohemia. His knowledge of the card market, its history and the many ways cards are used professionally is a HUGE bonus for us when we design a deck. With Pagan, when we told Don we wanted to do a borderless back he was excited and really pushed us to keep tweaking the design until it worked for magicians and card players. It was one thing to make it look cool, a whole different thing to make it playable. Without Don's technical help we wouldn't have ended up with the playable design we now have.

Q: Anything else you would like to add about the future of Uusi?

     We are excited to be working with people we respect and on projects we enjoy and have loved meeting all of the people in this community who have made this series meaningful and we hope you keep us on your radar even after our six deck series comes to an end! I know Peter will continue to add to the card cases on the site and we hope to surprise you with a new venture at Uusi in the future!

Some card designs



Links to the previous projects



A few final words

Me: I did carpentry work for 20 years before changing my career to my present job. I do miss sometimes being able to step away from a project, and say I built that.  I try to do wood projects when I can to help fill that gap. I'm not an artist, but I do understand the passion you have for what you do. It shows in the work you put out. Congratulations on all of your success. I know this one will be just as successful as the others. Beautiful work.

     Thanks, Robert! It's awesome that you had experience with woodworking – I definitely understand that feeling of being able to say, "I built that".  Also it's great to have people understand the passion we put in to our work. It really is the driving force behind everything we do at Uusi.

Best regards,

Peter



I want to thank Linnea and Peter again. Best wishes for your new project. I can feel my wallet getting lighter already.



If you are a designer, or have a project, and want it spotlighted. PM me here at the Discourse. 

[MrMollusk]

This is awesome!

Thanks for all this, Rob!

[Nurul]

Ahh a great interview with my favourite designers. Well done rob, I enjoyed that interview

[sprouts1115]

Rob Wright - Nice work but this could be so much better.  I do find myself coming here more often since badpete69 got fired from the UC list.  This thread has to much scrolling down and clicking.  I should be able to see and get into a Kickstarter in one click.  How hard would it be to put the [Kickstarter] [Kickstarter]  thingamajigs on the forum?   
 

[Rob Wright]

Rob Wright - Nice work but this could be so much better.  I do find myself coming here more often since badpete69 got fired from the UC list.  coming here there is to much scrolling down and clicking.  I should be able to see and get into a Kickstarter in one click.  How hard would it be to put the [Kickstarter] [Kickstarter]  thingamajigs on the forum?   

If I'm reading you right- read the top of the list- the pic is the link to the KS page.

[Ben Taylor]

Rob Wright - Nice work but this could be so much better.  I do find myself coming here more often since badpete69 got fired from the UC list.  coming here there is to much scrolling down and clicking.  I should be able to see and get into a Kickstarter in one click.  How hard would it be to put the [Kickstarter] [Kickstarter]  thingamajigs on the forum?   

If I'm reading you right- read the top of the list- the pic is the link to the KS page.

He's talking about the widget previews, they use iframes, which aren't enabled here.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1244376122/pagan-custom-playing-cards/widget

[Don Boyer]

Rob Wright - Nice work but this could be so much better.  I do find myself coming here more often since badpete69 got fired from the UC list.  coming here there is to much scrolling down and clicking.  I should be able to see and get into a Kickstarter in one click.  How hard would it be to put the [Kickstarter] [Kickstarter]  thingamajigs on the forum?   

Alex doesn't allow those widgets on the board because he feels the steps needed to do so would leave the board vulnerable to cyber attacks.

[sprouts1115]

Can we at least put them in order to when the Kickstarter closes.  Like first to close to last to close.  I hate to bitch but it seems like the "Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects" is like a tapeworm that gets longer and longer.  It sorta needs its separate thread.  People can go to that thread to check up on the status of their order.  Then once we know the decks or sent we should have a Kickstarter graveyard thread.  So people can do research and see how other people did theirs.  Lastly, there should be a scam thread for all the Kickstarters that were successful that did not deliver.  I like going to the Founders Deck every once in a while to check out the comments.  Yes I was scammed too.    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dodsr/founders-playing-cards?ref=card

[Don Boyer]

Can we at least put them in order to when the Kickstarter closes.  Like first to close to last to close.  I hate to bitch but it seems like the "Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects" is like a tapeworm that gets longer and longer.  It sorta needs its separate thread.  People can go to that thread to check up on the status of their order.  Then once we know the decks or sent we should have a Kickstarter graveyard thread.  So people can do research and see how other people did theirs.  Lastly, there should be a scam thread for all the Kickstarters that were successful that did not deliver.  I like going to the Founders Deck every once in a while to check out the comments.  Yes I was scammed too.    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dodsr/founders-playing-cards?ref=card

You wanna jump in and do the job?  It's not as easy as it sounds, my friend.  Rob's still working on getting things current.  Give him time.  Projects ARE listed in order of closing date, last time I looked.

We have a "Kickstarter graveyard."  It's called "2013 Deck Releases..."  Rob keeps track of undelivered scam projects in the NDR, with occasional updates - assuming there's actually something to report.

[Rob Wright]

Can we at least put them in order to when the Kickstarter closes.  Like first to close to last to close.  I hate to bitch but it seems like the "Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects" is like a tapeworm that gets longer and longer.  It sorta needs its separate thread.  People can go to that thread to check up on the status of their order.  Then once we know the decks or sent we should have a Kickstarter graveyard thread.  So people can do research and see how other people did theirs.  Lastly, there should be a scam thread for all the Kickstarters that were successful that did not deliver.  I like going to the Founders Deck every once in a while to check out the comments.  Yes I was scammed too.    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dodsr/founders-playing-cards?ref=card

You wanna jump in and do the job?  It's not as easy as it sounds, my friend.  Rob's still working on getting things current.  Give him time.  Projects ARE listed in order of closing date, last time I looked.

We have a "Kickstarter graveyard."  It's called "2013 Deck Releases..."  Rob keeps track of undelivered scam projects in the NDR, with occasional updates - assuming there's actually something to report.

Sprouts
1 Right now there in alphabetical order. I could change it to dates- then you would bitch that its not alphabetical.

2 Yes the funded deck list is long- if you have a problem with that. I suggest you go to each project page and tell the creators to get off their backsides, and ship their orders.

3 This isn't KS. If you want to check on the status of your order- GO TO KS!

4 The shipped decks will be added to the 2013 list before the end of the year.

5 A scam thread would be great. Don, I think you have a volunteer!

I'm happy to help out here on the Forum, and I appreciate that Don thought of me to do this, BUT I do work a full time job. I would like to do a lot more with this, but it takes a little time to write the code.

[Don Boyer]

A scam thread would be great. Don, I think you have a volunteer!

OK, Sprouts, you now have a mission - make a thread on KS "successful failures"; decks that were funded in full but never fully delivered long past their deadline.  You write it and if I like it, I'll make it sticky.

[Rob Wright]

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The Discourse New Deck Report
By Rob Wright
Report data compiled 12/01/2013

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Active Kickstarter Projects

Projects listed in alphabetical order. Currency amounts are in US dollars ($), British pounds sterling (£) or Canadian dollars (C$). Pledges in bold means the project is fully funded.

Running totals were taken on:  11/04-06/2013- 11/15/2013- 12/01/2013

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Current Pledges	Running Totals	KickStarter Link
	Mark Allender  2013 Playing Cards Series Nov 7- Dec 7, 2013	$1,400	$2,323	$0 $549 $2,323
	Anarchy Enterprises Autocorrect Epic Fail Nov 27, 2013- Jan 1, 2014	$8,500	$65	$0 $0 $65
	Robert Ogaz (& Kristi Ogaz) Bound Nov 26- Dec 26, 2013	$10,000	$513	$0 $0 $513
Bicycle	Shane Tyree Call of Cthulhu: The Writhing Dark Nov 12- Dec 10, 2013	$18,000	$70,827	$0 $29,329 $70,827
	Sly Kly  Carbon Fiber Nov 8, 2013- Jan 7, 2014	$35,000	$38,349	$0 $31,375 $38,349
Bicycle	DB Designs Clockwork Bicycle® Nov 1- Dec 6,2013	£8,000	£743	£647 £753 £743
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Creepy Nov 24- Dec 24, 2013	$5,000	$7,514	$0 $0 $7,514
USPC	Xtu Productions CRYSTALLUM Nov 8- Dec 8, 2013	$6,900	$1,978	$0 $1,714 $1,978
Bicycle	Cthulhu Project Cthulhu Playing Cards Nov 7- Dec 8, 2013	£20,000	£10,431	£0 £6,176 £10,431
	Connie Lim Decked Out: Fashion Playing Cards Nov 25- Dec 23, 2013	$10,000	$3,434	$0 $0 $3,434
Bicycle	Yuk Wah Dragon Dynasty Nov 13-Dec 13,2013	£8,000	£3,596	£0 £1,657 £3,596
USPC	TunnelBravo Fanangled Playing Card Deck – v 2.0 Nov 8- Dec 8, 2013	$6,695	$7,431	$0 $5,311 $7,431
Bicycle	RJ Tomlinson Global Unrest Playing Cards (WWII) Nov 30- Dec 31, 2013	$12,000	$3,568	$0 $0 $3,568
	Ars Felix HOUDINI Magic Séance Oct 31- Dec 7, 2013	$12,000	$3,726	$3,465 $3,788 $3,726
Bicycle	4PM DESIGNS Legacy Nov 29, 2013- Jan 24, 2014	$15,000	$8,332	$0 $0 $8,332
	Mike Lambert Metropol NOX Nov 12-Dec 17, 2013	$10,000 CAD	$$6,808 CAD	$0 $2,810 CAD $6,808 CAD
Bicycle	Philip Atherton    Mr. BIG Nov 13-Dec 13,2013	£10,000	£788	£0 £443 £788
	NDL Design Works Nouveau Luxury Nov 26- Dec 26, 2013	£2,500	£377	£0 £0 £377
USPC	Uusi Pagan Nov 20-Dec 21, 2013	$18,000	$44,553	$0 $0 $44,553
USPC	Jackson Robinson, KingsWild Sherlock Holmes Nov 2- Dec 7, 2013	$30,000	$$94,026	$70,382 $83,547 $94,026
	David T. Pudelwitts-St. Albans Vampire and Zombie Playing Card Nov 5, 2014- Jan 4, 2014	$3,000	$516	$101 $445 $516
USPC	Gary Hocker WWI 100 yr Anniversary Nov 26-Dec 31/2013	$13,000	$1,502	$0 $0 $1,502
USPC	Erik Mana & Alvin Campana Zinfandel & Indigo Nov 19- Dec 20, 2013	$20,000 CAD	$21,397 CAD	$0 $0 $21,397 CAD

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Successfully funded Kickstarter Projects

Projects remain on this chart until the decks are distributed to backers or on sale through retailers.  Reward Ship Estimate is taken from the project home page;

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
	Ben Thompson (badassoftheweek.com) BADASS: Spades & Grenades July 16-Aug 15, 2013	$10,000	$49,003		Dec 2013
USPC	Michael Muldoon Believe by System-6- Magic Sept 5-Oct 6, 2013	$10,000	$12,390+		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	UnCommon Beat The Black Book of Cards Sept 3-Oct 2, 2013	$10,000	$85,311		Jan 2014
	Hilary Pfeifer The Bunny with a Toolbelt May 29-July 8, 2013	$12,345	$14,742		Dec 2013
	Peter Dunham & Linnea Gits (Uusi) Blueblood Redux Aug 9-Sept 13, 2013	$9,000	$28,588		Jan 2014
	Jennifer Kast Caravan of SEE'ers Oct 26- Nov 6, 2013	$2,100	$5,527		Feb 2014
USPC	Cultúrlán Enterprises Celtic Playing Cards Sept 22-Nov 1, 2013	$6,000	$10,040		May 2014
Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Calaveras Jun 12-July 22, 2013	$15,000	$61,217		Dec 2013
Bicycle	RJ Tomlinson Civil Unrest Oct 14-31, 2013	$8,500	$11,787		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Dann Kriss NEW Cthulhu Oct 1-Nov 3	$12,000	$57,168		March 2014
Bicycle	Cardicians Bicycle Dark Templar Oct 16- Nov 15	$15,000	$35,666		March 2014
USPC	Roni Lagin Density Playing Card Deck Oct 11- Nov 15/2013	$12,000	$15,599		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Joanne Lin Emperor Blue decks only have been shipped July 31-Aug 30, 2013	$1,000	$18,033		LE Blue 10/13 Red 01/14
	Lee McKenzie (Kings & Crooks Playing Card Co.) Empire June 18-July 18, 2013	£9,030	£29,782		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards Evolution Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$15,000	$37,732		Dec 2013
Bicycle/USPC	Jackson Robinson (King's Wild Project) Federal 52, Part 2 June 15-July 25, 2013	$16,000	$188,005		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Scott King The Gentlemen 52: Bicycle® Playing Cards with a Hairy Twist Oct 7-Nov 10/2013	$9,000	$11,221		Dec 2013
Bicycle	CollectablePlayingCards.com Gods of Mythology Oct 24-Nov 23, 2013	$5,000	$7,244		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Elite Playing Cards GOLD Bicycle® Oct 24, Nov 23, 2013	$15,000	79,465		March 2014
	Ashley Acton The Grain Back Playing Cards Oct 30-Nov 29, 2013	£1,000	£1,142		Jan 2014
Bicycle/USPC	Midnight Playing Cards/HOPC Imperial Deck Aug 13-Sept 15, 2013	$10,000	$18,209		Dec 2013
	AlieN InK∞ Infinity Edition Galaxy Cards ∞ Oct9-17/2013	$88	$4,587		Dec 2013
	E Brewstein & Corsa Advertising, LLC The Irish Gaelic Oct 3-Nov 3	$5,750	$5,884		Dec 2013
Bicycle	Nathanael Mortensen Kingdoms of a New World Oct 24- Nov 24, 2013	$18,000	$40,776		July 2014
Bicyle	Cevin R Cox The League of Monsters Nov 4-20, 2013	$1,000	$1,719		Dec 2013
	Stephen Coffey Location Cards Oct 25- Nov 24, 2013	£900	£9,939		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Noel Quiles Meridian Sept 30-Nov 15	$15,000	$16,793		Feb 2014
USPC	Jonathan Beekman The Most Awesome Poker Set in the World Oct 10-Nov 9/2013	$21,000	$22,255		Dec 2013
	Erik Dahlman (Albino Dragon) The Name of the Wind May 9-June 14, 2013	$10,000	$589,660		Dec 2013
USPC Bicycle	Chris Ovdiyenko Oracle - Mystifying Playing Cards Oct 9-Nov 8 2013	$20,000	$52,198		March 14
Bicycle	Cy Arian (House of Cy) Persian Empire (2nd try) Aug 7-Sept 16, 2013	$13,000	$13,021		Dec 2013
	Digital Abstracts Playing Arts - A Deck of Poker Cards by 54 Top Artists Oct 12-Nov 9/2013	£3,000	£19,949		Dec 2013
USPC	Paul Vincent Pocket Time Machine July 29-Aug 26, 2013	$7,500	$8,922		Feb 2014
USPC	Erik Dahlman , albinodragon The Princess Bride Oct 22- Nov 26, 2013	$10,000	$136,009		July 2014
	Corey Papastathis Split Suit Playing Cards Oct 17- Nov 7, 2013	$500	$664 (High was $712)		April 2014
Bicycle	Nat Iwata Steampunk Pirates Sept 22-Oct 23, 2013	$18,000	$44,481		Feb 2014
Bicycle	Tesh of Project Khopesh Tinker Deck Sept 9- Oct 5, 2013	$11,000	$23,743		Jan 2014
(?)	Andy Fisher A War of Kings Aug 1-Sept 7, 2013	$10,500	$13,018		Dec 2013
	Sergei Boutenko Wild Edible Poker Cards Oct 11-Nov 11/2013	$4,500	$6,212		March 2014{/td
USPC	Dale Mathis "World's First 3D Metal and Mechanized Playing Cards" Oct 12-Nov 16/2013	$35,000	$148,637		Feb/March 2014
	Warpunk Games Zombie Black Sept 19-Oct 10, 2013	$2,000	$9,230		Jan 2014
	Warpunk Games Zombie White Oct 14-28, 2013	$730	$3,883		Dec 2013

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Kickstarter projects that are late

USPC Brand	Creator Title & Discourse Topic Link Project Start/Stop Date	Goal	Pledges	KickStarter Link	Ship Est.
Bicycle	Cobey Pile (Home Run Games) 8-Bit (Traditional) (red, blue) Apri 5-May 15, 2013-Aug 2013 Nov 25, 2013 comment-"Home Run Decks get here later this week. Cards still going out. Once we have other decks all orders will go out"	$15,000	$26,325		Aug 2013
USPC	Juan Solórzano Alice of Wonderland (gold, silver) Changed to Cartamundi- USPC would not print Alice of Wonderland eliments. June 28-July 29, 2013	$19,500	$22,716		Nov 2013
USPC	Man Made Games All Jokers Transformation Deck (2nd try) (four back patterns; formerly "Bicycle Four Jokers") Nov 12, 2013 Update-We are just waiting for the last three deck designs to be shipped to us (Due in a week or two) Aug 12-Sept 11, 2013	$1,000	$4,738		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Altius Management Asylum Sep 25-Oct 31, 2012 Update 7/13/2013 "Update on Asylum Playing Card Project " for backers only- many comments of fraud	$15,000	$25,146		Dec 2012
	David Sitto Diamond Cut Playing Cards Update #18 - For backers only-Nov 6, 2013-Moving Along Aug 25-Oct 5, 2013	$1,500	$5,128		Nov 2013
	Cora Tang, Alex Maynard, Ryan Andrews The Drinking Deck Nov 26, 2013 comment "Yes we are in rotation at the printer so it depends on their holiday schedule, when I hear a concrete date I'll send out address surveys to get everyone's current address, we're almost there!!" July 17-Aug 31, 2013	$9,000	$11,474		Nov 2013
	The Department of Design Founders Feb 11-March 14, 2013 No update since 07/24/2013- apparent fraud	$13,000	$37,092		July 2013
USPC	Jacob Reynolds Gangsters Playing Cards June 11-Jul 11, 2013 Does anybody know if thes have been delivered? ? Last update 07/10/2013  "Deck complete, test print in effect"	$500	$576		Aug 2013
Bicycle	Noel Quiles (TPX Designs) King of Kings Nov 14, 2013 KING OF KINGS UPDATE! Hello everyone I have talked to uspcc and printing of KOK will be done by the end of the month. So we will begin shipping around the second week of Decmber. July 26-Aug 25, 2013	$15,000	$15,684		Nov 2013
USPC	Derek McKee The Melies Playing Cards Update #8 - For backers only Nov 21, 2013 The tuck box -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update #7 - For backers only Nov 2, 2013 Working with the United States Playing Card Company... Aug 28-Sept 26, 2013	$11,500	$11,797		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Alex Willis (AP Publishing House/Man Made Games) Michael Frömmer 1616 Silver April 9-May 9, 2013 No pictures of actual cards- Fraud alert-Update #21 - For backers only Oct 28, 2013 Shipping has resumed... Thanks everyone for your patience and for the kind words and support from those regarding the funeral and subsequent estate settlement.  I have finished a long and tiring process and I'm happy to finally return to work and some sense of normalcy.  I am picking up where I left off with shipping and hopefully you will get your decks soon. Thanks again, Alex	$8,500	$8,529		Sep 2013
	David Goldklang (Vända Cards0 Mustache April 24-May 26, 2013 Creator posted a comment 11/5/2013-  I did take on more than I can handle - I let my optimism run a bit too wild. I assure you that I'm still working to get these cards and accessories shipped out to everyone but at the moment I'm very swamped with full time work and finishing up the last few remaining orders from my previous project	$10,000	$19,046		Sept 2013
Bicycle	Brett Dudo Royal Wilderness Creator Brett Dudo 11/26/2013 Yes!!! I've been packing =) The rewards will be in the mail this week! I was waiting until I actually shipped, but... cat's out of the bag, now. Cheers! June 19-Aug 3, 2013 comment by creator 11/7/2013 I know, I know... I do apologize for the delay. This is my first go at this sort of thing, and the delivery date of September was a bit... heroic. I should have the cards from USPCC in the next week or so, and it should only be a couple days for me to get everything packaged up and delivered. Hang tight! =)	$6,500	$6,602		Sep 2013
USPC	Darren Gendron Seelie June 13-July 13, 2013 Update #8  Nov 19, 2013 Seelie Update Hey guys, I know there's not been a lot of updates on this project, and I'm sorry about that. I've been really, really busy lately. However, a good chunk of what's keeping me busy has been work on Seelie. Right now, I'm working as many hours as I can, but also taking the occasional moment to spend time with my two sons and wife. My parents have temporarily moved in with me to help with the duties that crop up with a newborn, as well as sometimes learning to play video games to keep my older son entertained when I disappear into the office to figure out how many envelopes I need to buy and how the Scallywags budget is doing (first answer: ~900, second answer: fine, we'll have everything in our warehouse shortly). Also, some people have noticed that I do sometimes log into Kickstarter, but don't post an update. This is because a lot of times I'm just tallying up order numbers, or answering messages, or sometimes just glancing at another person's project. And yes, I am currently finishing up two other projects. I wanted to make sure everyone knew that I've cancelled all public appearances until these three projects are 100% done. I'm also not starting any new projects until these are finished. So yes, we're motivated to get this all out the door.	$5,000	$7,328		Nov 2013
(?)	Jason Tagmire Storyteller Cards May 6-June 10, 2013 Print error from USPC- replacment cards expected end of Nov	$10,000	$15,990		Nov 2013
USPC	Hannah Lipsky Tavern Cards Jan 17-Feb 13, 2013 Update #19  Nov 23, 2013 Proofs updates After setting the cards aside for most of a week and looking at them again, I did notice a few more errors. Nothing that will require any of the cards to be entirely redrawn, but enough that it will take a little bit of time to fix them and then order more proofs.	$5,000	$5,704		April 2013
	Chris Cavill Type Deck June 13-July 23, 2013 Update #8 Nov 9, 2013 Here come the surveys!	$12,000	$20,604		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Brian Denham and Joeming Dunn (Antarctic Press) Ultimate Zombie May 10-June 9, 2013 Update #31 Nov 20, 2013 Hello everyone! We have heard from the printer and the cards will be ready to ship out to us next week. Everything is printed and glued in the proper spots. We are in the queue to be "finished" and sent.	$7,205	$15,407		Oct 2013
Bicycle	Lotrek (Half Moon Playing Cards) Venexiana July 16-Aug 20, 2013 Update #35 Nov 26, 2013 Shipment progress just a quick note to you all, regarding shipment: Latest update from my fulfillment center says that all decks will have been sent by next week. I was expecting this to happen earlier  but it's beyond my will and control... In any case we're close! Stay tuned! :-) Lotrek	$15,000	$23,098		Nov 2013
	Alex Willis A Victorian Adventure May 30-June 29, 2013 Update #16 - For backers only Nov 1, 2013 Final Changes and delays Sorry gang, this project got delayed much longer than I expected which include a lot of design changes, some of which I'm okay with and some of which I spent a good deal of time and energy pushing back on.  But it's done.  I finally got the final, final copies and agreed to the changes from legal.  So here they are.  I sign the contracts and it's off to printing.	$8,500	$8,967		Nov 2013
Bicycle	Gavin Rooney (Home Run Games) Zombie Riders Mar 19-May 18, 2013 Update #42  Nov 21, 2013 Shipping coming. Hello all, Sorry for the delays. We will be receiving the Black deck on Dec.2. We will get them all to the fulfillment company and they'll go out asap. Enjoy thanksgiving. Thank you so much for your patience.	$8,000	$8,895		Sep 2013

           

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Rob -  I didn't know there are so many behind.  I knew of Alex Willis, but I'm basically speechless with the rest....