Card Design

    Now that I have actually printed a few copies of each of the cards that we have already created, I have realized that I don't like the Stat Changes Text just hovering over the image.  I think that I need to make the text in some sort of tab or something because it is hard to read and just looks out of place.  I also believe that the player info box needs to be bigger so that the text inside it is more legible.  So, back to the drawing board I go.  Sorry, for the constant changes but that is just how it goes.  The creation process continues and changes at every step.  I am sure soon we will have a close to finished product.

004 Spooked Savage

    Like I said in the last post, I am very motivated now that I have some actual cards in my hands.  I just made the next card for the prototype with another free image that I found online.  This monster's name is Spooked Savage, he looks as scared as a monster can get.  Thanks for checking in.

-SRock

First Card Printing

     Today I had my first set of cards printed.  I had Rock Johnson, Bones Batterman and Lucifer Shroud printed along with the backs.  The prints are not two sided, the cards are actually two piece of 80 lb. glossy card stock.  I had them done at OfficeMax because they were the cheapest quote that I found.  They charged $0.71 per sheet and I had 2 sheets of each card done and 6 sheets of the card backs, so 12 in all for $9.21.  This came to about $1.54 per sheet of cards, front and back.  With 9 cards per sheet, each card came to $0.17 a piece.  Better than the $0.20-$0.25 I had previously found at different print shops.  On top of being cheaper than some of the other shops I tried out, OfficeMax was also a cleaner, crisper print.  I am very excited with their work.  The first sheet I cut with a cheap paper cutter and the card edges were slightly frayed and not smooth.  So, back to OfficeMax I went to exchange the first paper cutter for a bigger guillotine style cutter.  This worked out perfectly, such a clean smooth cut.  The cleaner cut also reduced the width of the card in half.  The cards are a little thicker than a magic card, 10 Sports Wars Cards are the same width of 10 Magic: The Gathering Cards.  Having a stack of  45 Sports Wars Cards actually made, printed and in my hands is getting me ever more excited to get this project moving forward.  I can't wait to get more monster images to make more cards.  This is getting very fun and I feel like all the work I have been putting in is finally turning into something.  YAY!!!!  Thanks for reading.  Go donate and receive a few of our freshly printed cards.  For the next 2 days get 20% off if you like our facebook page.

-SRock

003 Lucifer Shroud

    I have this week off from work and have been spending the majority of these day off working on Spors Wars.  Yesterday, I made our third card for our prototype game.  Lucifer Shroud is the monster name.  I found some free images online and played with them a little to make them work for our cards.  Hope you guys like this one.  Lucifer Shroud card is available in our facebook store front.  Thanks for reading.

-SRock

Facebook Store Front

   Last night I was having a hard time falling asleep so I jumped on the computer and played around with adding a store front to our facebook page.  On our facebook store you are now able to buy our first two cards for $1.50 each.  I know this is kinda high but we are more looking at it as a donation to help us get our prototype made, so lets go make some donations.  I have also put up 150 spots for our BETA Testing at $20.00 a piece.  For $20.00 you get to take part in our BETA Test, you receive our prototype starter deck, a 5-card booster pack, a copy of our first card, Rock Johnson and much, much more.

   I have also given everyone who likes our Facebook Page from now until the 1st of January, 20% all cards from our store.  So instead of $1.50 it will only be $1.20.  Please help us get our prototype made so we can move on to the BETA stage of our development.  As always, thanks for reading.  More coming soon.

-SRock

Card 001 and 002

  I was looking at the first two cards that I have made and noticed a few little things that I did not like.  The text inside the player info box was unreadable even after printing so obviously it needed to be changed.  I also thought that the background color was a little too dark so I made so minor changes.  Here are the final products that I have after todays work.  I hope you like.

SPORTS WARS CARDS

Cards Numbers:

001 

and 

002

   Thanks for checking in on us.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

- SRock

BETA Tester ADS

   When I signed up for hosting with godaddy I recieved $50 of free facebook ads and $100 of free Google Adwords ads.  Today I set up ads running through the 5th of Jan. 2012 for BETA tester for our prototype.  Hopefully, these ads will generate some extra pages views to our pages, gain us some followers and maybe some BETA testers.  Funds from the BETA testers will be going to creating our prototype.  I already have our next 3 cards being professionally made and the next $100 will get us our next 3 cards after that.  I will also be selling 3 packs of cards to gain more funds for our artists.  Help us out and donate on our indiegogo page.  The link is below.

IndieGoGo Page

Thanks for keeping up on our project.

-SRock