Text-mode Playing Cards
The idea is born
After finishing Tetromino Sweep, I was looking for another game related project. An attempt to make my own assets for a card game quickly turned into a project of its own…
Four kings. pic.twitter.com/TK7DhuZxSs
— m.egg (@markegli) November 12, 2018
Four queens. pic.twitter.com/9w702NMEWJ
— m.egg (@markegli) November 23, 2018
Finally made the time to finish my #textmode face cards! They use a custom 12×12 font / character-set. pic.twitter.com/ZbBuk3xvFB
— m.egg (@markegli) April 5, 2019
Thanks for all the love for my #textmode playing cards! For those curious about the non-face cards, they look like this: pic.twitter.com/8ZqLQd7Mo4
— m.egg (@markegli) April 7, 2019
Thought a bit today about how to high-res my cards and I let myself get a bit distracted by the idea of #textmode + vectors. Promising. pic.twitter.com/54sPjMfAIo
— m.egg (@markegli) April 8, 2019
Working on card backs. pic.twitter.com/xkAr9CpdCd
— m.egg (@markegli) April 21, 2019
S’more #textmode card backs. pic.twitter.com/gNtdlLjWC1
— m.egg (@markegli) April 21, 2019
Vectorizing
Here I took a break from this project to build a Raspberry Pi console. I came back to it the next year with the idea to vectorize the cards so they would look nicer printed.
I wasn’t planning on making actual physical cards, but…
— m.egg(@markegli) January 5, 2020
The art isn’t the right aspect ratio, unfortunately, so the margins are weird. pic.twitter.com/CRdnyiJkMs
Added some margin and pushed out the indices to make the cards properly poker sized. pic.twitter.com/hDKonfI8vE
— m.egg(@markegli) January 5, 2020
The larger pip cards aren't great. Trying out ideas. pic.twitter.com/EDaASGn01r
— m.egg(@markegli) January 7, 2020
Which would look better for physical cards: vector or raster? pic.twitter.com/XSgSBCcpqq
— m.egg(@markegli) January 25, 2020
Two down.
— m.egg(@markegli) January 26, 2020
I tweaked the arcs a little bit to better match the pixel font. pic.twitter.com/5cYd7GSHzf
I started vectorizing all my cards, but got distracted updating some of the art. pic.twitter.com/hfN2R7yWlv
— m.egg(@markegli) January 27, 2020
The queens are done! #textmode #vector #vectorart #rexpaint #svg pic.twitter.com/BDZcQgOhAH
— m.egg(@markegli) February 9, 2020
Completed vectorizing my face cards!
— m.egg(@markegli) May 6, 2020
…except I still have to clean up some of the paths, and do the pip cards, and rasterize them, &c. 😩
But they look nice! #textmode #vector #vectorart #rexpaint #svg #playingcards pic.twitter.com/2CDp12WSDE
Physical Cards
Once the vector art was done and all cleaned up, it was time to bring it into the physical world!
They're done! They exist!!! ♥️♠️♦️♣️ #textmode #vector #vectorart #rexpaint #svg #playingcards pic.twitter.com/A6DWEh8HBI
— m.egg(@markegli) June 10, 2020
— m.egg(@markegli) June 10, 2020
This page last updated July 16th, 2021.