Crystallum now live on Kickstarter

[Whaam]

Hey all,

Johnny Whaam brings you another deck design. This time...it's classic playing cards redesigned in a crystal relief engraving style.
Hope you'll back this project, thanks...

Johnny

[BMPokerworld]

This is exactl what I am talking about. He joined in April and has 41 posts. 40 of them are about his decks. That is not acceptable.

Thanks!

[badpete69]

Was the one non deck post about you Mike? hehehehehehe

[sqratch]

spammmmmmm!

[BMPokerworld]

No he just posted the other day about the federal 52 deck. But that was it. Don't worry I have taken care of it. Not to mention I can't stand idiots that talk about themselves in the third person!!!!

Thanks!

[cosmicsecret]

Not my cup of tea. Looks to busy...way to busy for my taste.

[montecarlojoe]

Not to mention I can't stand idiots that talk about themselves in the third person!!!!

Haha! Beat me to it!

MCJ hates that too.

[rousselle]

Whaam, spam, thank you, ma'am!

[walrus]

I like the courts but that's about it. I agree with Mike, that third person thing drives Walrus nuts. Walrus doesn't like that.

[volantangel]

Dont like any part of this. Not a good time to launch a mediocre KS now.

[sqratch]

Doubt this one will make it far at all. Good idea poorly executed.

[Mike Ratledge]

I agree. (almost) unfortunately - I kind of like the deck. Oh, well. "one of each"...

Good one, Walrus. RatMan agrees.

[rousselle]

Funny. I like the number cards, but the courts I find just a bit too busy for so little happening.

I don't mean to discourage Whaam. I like the concept, and I think it works on the number cards, but the courts need to be cleaned up, imho. Either way, keep working on it… and, hey, post some more on the other conversations, too. The more the merrier!

[badpete69]

Original Post updated now live

[Sharpie]

[sarcasm]I am really impressed by his earlybird pricing tiers.[/sarcasm]

[MagikFingerz]

[sarcasm]I am really impressed by his earlybird pricing tiers.[/sarcasm]

"Oh boy, I can save a whole dollar? Gee whiz, mister, I need to hurry and get one of them earlybirds straight away!"

[vmagic]

As with every other Xtu Production deck this will be another fail. Not sure why he even bothers trying for USPC decks.

[Eoghann]

[sarcasm]I am really impressed by his earlybird pricing tiers.[/sarcasm]

"Oh boy, I can save a whole dollar? Gee whiz, mister, I need to hurry and get one of them earlybirds straight away!"

I know what I'M gonna do with that extra dollar!

[capdauntless]

I like it and I don't. While the design is interesting I'm not feeling the font and pip designs. I'm afraid at this point backing is a no for me.

[th4mo]

I'll give Whaam credit because he seems to push the boundaries pretty far on his decks and attempts to implement design ideas that are really challenging (I say all this as a non-designer, so this is just from my perspective).

A (2 dimensional) deck of cards that looks like it has been cut from Crystal? That could be really really amazing if someone managed to pull that off!

However, i think this deck falls pretty short of the mark. Sorry Johnny! To me it just looks like a grey deck with some embellished lines. I'm not really getting the "crystal" feel. If you didn't have the name and the crystal glass in the photo, i probably never would have made the association (I can be pretty dense ). Not being any kind of artist myself, i'm afraid i can't offer any ideas of how to make it better, either.

I don't agree with people who criticize you for putting out too many decks though. It's clear you have a wide variety of ideas and lots of energy to explore them. No harm in throwing them out there to see how the market reacts. One of the great benefits of KS is that failure costs very little!