16 August 2010 @ 12:00 am
Special decks  
I've yet to pass out mod pay. Will be doing that after I calculate everyone's! Thanks for all the great game suggestions. I'm going to think some more about them. Take this time to consider if you'll be able to run a new weekly game (suggestions for monthly and other more involved tasks are on the backburner for now). Whether or not we can add a new game depends on your long term availability after all, so I wouldn't want you to make a decision right away. I'll round up the suggestions and make another post next week. If there are any suggestions you're interested in, feel free to express your interest in the previous post.

That aside, I tinkered with the card template a bit. I've been tinkering with it since last month, but I've yet to settle on a template I like for special decks. =/ Here are the latest versions. I'd like your opinion! And, what are your opinions on special decks? Because this is a "individual character" TCG, these special decks aren't meant to be series decks, but rather themed decks, and each card should ideally only feature one character (with no repeats in the deck if possible). In my mind, these are mostly for minor characters who don't have enough images for their own deck. It would have been much nicer if I could make our randomizer work with different amounts of cards in a deck, but I don't know how to code that, so sadly even these decks are currently slated to be 20 cards each. (unless someone knows how to code a clean randomizer that randomizes cards of different amounts!) I mean, I can put in each card separately, but that would make the randomizer messy and way too long.

I made 4 variations. These are minor characters from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (only because the images were easy to get. If this ever becomes an official deck, I'm not sure if I would keep Daryan in here since he might have enough images for his own deck, anyway, that's not important at the moment...)





So here we have a solid white line to match our Signatures. I moved the number next to the deck name because it looked kind of weird in the corner when the color was different from the border. It's two colors because I was thinking that special decks would be harder to acquire because you'd need 2 crayons of 2 different colors in order to trade for them in the Art Shop, but cards are still worth 1 and you can get them just like any other card as a prize from games and such.






Here I'm being wishy washy and thinking maybe we should stick to a dotted border, but then it wouldn't match our Signatures.






Here I'm thinking perhaps two colors is way too gaudy. And I do think one color looks a lot better and cleaner, but maybe it's only because this is blue.






So I flipped the colors around (the shades changed a bit). Not sure if this makes a difference.

So, thoughts? ^^

Some others:

Keeping the number in the corner. Might help our eyes since we're used to looking in the corner now, eh?


Inverted dark and light colors. (I think this just makes the card look dirty...)


Inverted dark and light colors with a solid white border + number w/ deck name.

...I really don't know anymore since I tried so many different things out. Can't keep track of what I've done anymore!
 
 
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[identity profile] slashed-dream.livejournal.com on August 18th, 2010 09:25 am (UTC)
True, you're probably right about the colors matching the character. But I think it might also be because the colors are closer together than blue and red? :? I guess it's really going to be hard to pick colors. I've already run into this problem with characters that have different coloring in different artworks xD; (like the wired or ribbon decks |D ) and compared to special decks were the colors might be different for every card, that was probably easy XD;

I'll see if there are any games left over that I like when I come back :3
lucathia: fishbones: green background[personal profile] lucathia on August 18th, 2010 09:38 am (UTC)
I guess color combinations like red + orange, orange + yellow (colors that are close!) will end up looking nice. I can imagine it!!

Ahaha, I think this deck is probably the worst time I had with different colors. His hair is light brown in the anime but gray in the manga!! In the end, the border was neither color really...

When are you leaving? :3
[identity profile] slashed-dream.livejournal.com on August 18th, 2010 09:47 am (UTC)
I do think close colors will work well. Like Lionheart and Dawn had two colors in the beginning, but they didn't look gaudy either.

I remember I was surprised when I saw how Natsume's deck turned out. I had imagined a lighter color, but I didn't know his hair was gray in the manga since I've only watched the anime XD But I do like that deck. :3

I'm flying on the 2nd of September D: so close now...I'm super excited right now...and a little scared xD
lucathia: fishbones: pink[personal profile] lucathia on August 18th, 2010 10:03 am (UTC)
Bungee surprisingly looked okay to me, haha, even though it was blue and orange...but yeah, Dawn looked nice!

I wonder what's with characters ending up with different hair colors between mediums. XD Some aren't too bad, but some are just crazy...

Whoa, that's just around the corner then. I hope you're ready. :3 And how long did you say you'll be away?
[identity profile] slashed-dream.livejournal.com on August 18th, 2010 10:18 am (UTC)
I'm sure bungee looked okay, I just didn't mention it because I don't remember how it used to look all that well x'D I have a bad visual memory.

Sometimes they even change colors on the same medium! Like the mangaka can't settle on what they like best XD;

I hope I'm ready too! I've never actually been on a plane before |D
I think our flight back is booked for the 30th. I'll be in Sendai for the first two weeks and in Tokyo from the 20th to the 24th...we haven't really settled on what we'll do with our free days after that (since the official study tour ends on the 24th). I think I'd like to visit Kyoto. :3

lucathia[personal profile] lucathia on August 18th, 2010 10:37 am (UTC)
Oh wow, that's basically the whole month then! How exciting~. :D How far is it from your place to Japan?

I want to go to Japan again. I'm always dreaming of shopping. XDD Haha, most people go sightseeing, but I'm more interesting in buying things. Sounds like you have a bit of free time after the study tour. I guess you'll have a better clue of what you want to do with that time once you're in Japan. :3 Kyoto would be awesome!
[identity profile] slashed-dream.livejournal.com on August 18th, 2010 10:55 am (UTC)
It'll take us 14 hours total to get from here to Narita...I think we have a one hour stop in London to board another plane. The no-stop flight with a German airline was too expensive XD
I definitely want to go sightseeing, but I'm sure I'll spend a hell of a lot of money shopping, too X'D (I'm not sure how I'll get it all home yet |D ). And I want to eat a lot of Japanese food. I hope my host family's good at cooking |D