From a community side-project to a huge project, made possible by you!
Dear Boards,
My apologies if you already come across a similar post as this one yesterday. I just trashed some text and some video's into a post and assumed it would be as well-received as the first post on this playing card topic. I was wrong, and I hope you will forgive me for this somewhat re-post. But a lot of things I didn't cover actually took quite some work.
http://i.imgur.com/TJ1aLdB.jpg
First for the people that have more important stuff to do:
>#TLDR; Two weeks ago, I showed a deck of playing cards I made using League splash arts. I got some useful feedback, and a lot of requests on where to buy the cards. With these two things I got to work. The result is a fairly new deck design and a complete website where you can find out more about the deck as well as a place to have them printed yourself. Below I want to show you just that.
#Table of contends:
- How is this possible? You are selling league contend, that's illegal!
- The definitive design.
- A complete website, all for you!
#How's this possible?
After I posted my first concept on the forums, and someone asked if I would be allowed to sell these cards an official RIOT'er (RiotSargonas) responded:
http://i.imgur.com/AO9VVqe.jpg
So yea, can't sell it.
At first glance, that would make it impossible to get these cards out for the community. Good thing I'm an ignorant little brat that doesn't give up that easily , I did the following: The company that prints these cards allows you to sell your design. The price of this design you can set to +10, +20, +30, +40 or +50 percent of the printing costs. Since 0 wasn't an option, that wasn't an option neither. Unlesss.... yea, you've guessed it, I contacted the company if they could pretty please enable the option to 'sell designs' with a 0 percent profit marge. Surprisingly, they for-filled my wishes, making it possible for me to 'sell' my design for nothing. Meaning that if you would order a deck of cards with my design on it, you would pay just as much as if you would have made and uploaded the design yourself!
I'm basically giving out the design for free. which is allowed.
#What's the design?
Last time I showed a few of the fronts, and the back design. I'll just do that again:
Spades:
http://i.imgur.com/hgRg0XC.jpg
Diamonds:
http://i.imgur.com/ar0itTx.jpg
Clubs:
http://i.imgur.com/PMXIaaf.jpg
Hearths:
http://i.imgur.com/9fkqVtX.jpg
I had to change a few things due to community input, thanks to your input, we now have:
Caitlyn on the Ace of Spades Jhin on the four of Spades Vi on the six of hearths Trundle on the king of clubs
Besides that, I removed urgot, how harsh it may sound, he's just too ugly :(.
Also I changed a lot of splash art's due to bad lighting. The champions however remain.
There are now two versions: a blue back design and the original brown back design.
I would love to show how the card handle but I'm not really good a that, this video is the best i could do... Sorry :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn8gU5r61s
#Le Website
To make all this a little less complicated i set up a website with the very original and thought-through name LOLPlayingCards.com. here are some screenshots:
Front page with the story and stuffs:
http://i.imgur.com/qfyB10Z.png
A page with all the decks that are printable atm. For now, that's just the original deck in blue or brown, but I'm hoping to be able to print specials like a snowdown one ;).
http://i.imgur.com/c44LpjB.jpg
A page that should help you through the printing process (although that is pretty simple)
http://i.imgur.com/kHxetiR.jpg
And a page that will give you the ability to contact me via mail at any time!
http://i.imgur.com/syJRLeX.jpg
I really hope people can have fun with my creation. All the nice comments on the previous post is what gave me the motivation to push through this initiative.
Thanks for reading!
-Willie
