Thread 2942708

I want to make a board game. Nothing super professional and I have no delusions about it, but it would be nice if I didn't have to write out all the cards by hand.

Just curious if anyone had any suggestions or ideas?

Make a simpler card game with more modifier n shiet.
Printer exists.

>>2942713
Yeah a printer exists. How do you print onto a card?

>>2942744
generally you get a sheet of cardstock, print a bunch of cards on it, and then cut them apart.

>>2942753
There's some steps missing here I feel which is why I'm asking about it. Like getting the card designs onto a computer to be printed.

>>2942760
You can either create the designs on a computer (GIMP is free) or you can do them on paper and scan them into the computer. Once you have the files on the computer you can clean them up (again, GIMP) and print them. You can either print them on paper and then glue them to cardstock, print them directly onto cardstock (cheaper printers can't handle this), or have them printer professionally. A local printer place can handle this and it is not too expensive. Or, if they are like standard playing cards, you can have a Chinese company print you some professional cards at very low cost. The only issue is they generally only offer a few size varieties, they generally have to be 52 cards or less (standard deck size), and they will take forever to arrive.

>>2942744
Glue.
>>2942760
Word or powerpoint.

Cricut.
I recommend checking out a sewing place and see if they have someone there to do it for you.
Huge learning curve if you try to do stuff without paying for files.

Not DIY but I found a site years ago that would print me playing cards with whatever text I wanted for about 8 cents a unique card.

>>2942760
You can print cards at an office depot or Kinko's or whatever, at 300dpi or higher, on glossy, heavy cardstock. Arrange as many card faces as you can fit (shoot for 2.5x3.5 inch cards), and remember you need space between them. I think I got six or eight comfortably on a page when I did it.
When you design the card backs, you'll need an extra probably half-inch bleed because the folks at Kinko's will absolutely need you to explain to them twice that you want to print on the back of the cardstock, and they will have trouble lining the stock up perfectly. Make sure they print the faces on the good side and the backs on the dull side. They should let you inspect their stock before you print, especially if you're printing a lot.
I recommend a sliding cutter over a guillotine lever style one, because you will fuck up if you get complacent. The scrapbooking section of a hobby store has hand dies for rounding the corners of cards off. It's labor intensive but it's almost worth it.
If you want to do this more than a few times, forget everything else I said and go through a place like The Game Crafter.

>>2942708 (OP)
you could print it on regular paper and then laminate it, but let's be real cardstock is better.

www.thegamecrafter.com