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volantangel wrote:Will I hate to say this again but I really think the king and jack of spades should be swapped as kings are typically depicted as older and the jacks younger.

I'm in for a deck, great artwork and I like the style and theme.The only suggestion I have is to do something with the snakes. I'm not a snake fan, but understand they serve a purpose in the history and thus likely belong in this deck. Beyond that though, the snakes don't look polished enough. That may have to do with the nature of their appearance and the detail can only be in the scales, but they don't look like they were cleaned up enough digitally. At first glance they look like somebody just did a sketch, scanned it in and slapped it on the card. Obviously you did do work on it, but they just don't 'pop'. Perhaps experiment with sharpening or darkening slightly, maybe adding some background detail? In looking at them closer I think the eyes and nose need to be brought out more to bring out those features more so they look as professional as the other animals.

So the suits are large mammals, small mammals, birds and snakes? That's pretty cool and I really like the footprints on the tuck, but a bit disappointed that theme didn't carry over to the cards. It would be neat to replace them as suits, but that would impact play-ability and would not be received well. I would like to see them incorporated if possible, perhaps as a crest/shield on the cards instead of the uniformly used antlers or elsewhere.

Overall I still really like it though, nice work so far.

Jock1971 wrote:Hi Will,
The Preview page looks awesome,can`t wait till Launch.
I noticed you`ve put the project in the Tabletop Game Category, you should change that to the new Playing card category.

daveEdgerly wrote:Hi Will,
great looking deck. My only advice/input would be : have you submitted the tuck case design to USPCC yet? They have gotten very strict with their branded deck standards and I'm not sure if your use of the Bicycle logo will be acceptable to them. I think you have everything else in order as far as your campaign page goes. Looking forward to the launch!