How to Make Cards (3 Ways)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- This is another in our series of how-to videos, showing three techniques for making your own cards. These are good ways to make playtest cards for your game in development, or to produce your own copy of our free games.
James Ernest publishes tabletop games, design articles, and short fiction at Crab Fragment Labs: www.crabfragmentlabs.com/
Here's a quick link to the tile cards video mentioned at the end: • How to Build Tile Cards - เกม
This video was a big help with my school project. Making a greek mythology board game for a classics class. Thanks so much.
how'd it go?
What a well produced, informative video. Great stuff!
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Indeed, he should make a video on how to make videos!
00:22 - Method 1, Card Sleeves
01:56 - Method 2, Plain Cardstock
04:12 - Method 3, Full Sheet Labels
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I recently used a variation of method 2. I printed my designs on some pre-cut business card template sheets, so I could just push out the cards and round the corners. Business cards are a bit smaller than standard playing cards, but still perfectly playable and look very cute. Using pre-cut business card sheets avoids the trouble of perfectly sizing the cuts. Also, you can get those with already rounded corners and a generous margin for borderless printing.
I find that laminated cardstock works the best for homemade card they are very durable and look high quality. This is also good for making durable deck boxes. laminated letter size shipping labels are good for all kind of things from custom dice to custom box wraps. you can mount card stock to card board and laminate it to make boards or heavy chits or tiles if the board is to big for standard laminating pockets you can tear them in half and iron them on the overlap is barely visible. you say but I don't have a laminator you should definitely get one they are realatively inexpensive and easy to use and definetly worth the investment if you are going to be makeing your own game components. By the way if you need dice I would recommend the dollar tree they sell them 10 for a dollar in different colors and if you need to customize them you can using the method I outlined above.
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Thanks for the INCREDIBLY helpful info
Heres a sub
You should make a video on how to properly make the templates and actual card designs on the computer. What program do you use?
If you find a good template, Please tell me about it.
If you do i will sub
@@abearmagan6008 yeah really - I was like "why is there not a downloadable template in the description?"
You can't make a template without knowing what information you'll put on these cards. It has to be custom.
You can find templates on "the game crafter" website
Inkscape works quite well
Great tips! I've been a big fan of the first sleeving method over my attempts to print my own on cardstock like method #2 (my now-retired laser printer haaated printing on cardstock and the toner never bound properly), but the print&stick labels will be a nice upgrade for both my regular games as well as my custom MtG sets for drafting with friends!
I literally searched for a TH-cam video of James Ernest making cards yesterday, presuming this already existed. I would rant at you to stop reading my thoughts, but it's just so convenient!
Are you designing a new game Bob??
Not right now...this is to playtest Tuscany, an expansion to Viticulture. But maybe I'll use these how-tos on my own design someday...
I am definitely doing the second option, thank you so so much for this amazing tutorial video it helped me a lot
Ahh... so many memories of hours and hours spent at Kinkos printing and cutting cardstock prototypes... And mine usually had backs, because I'm extra-crazy!
I really needed this kind of video. I'm prepping for a tabletop rpg session and I needed this for the items and the tile cards for maps. Thank you very much and please do more!
+Vladimir Delta yeah, I agree!!
This is so helpful thank you! I literally never comment on videos but I'm making a board game for my senior project and it's due in like two weeks and I have so much shit to print. Great tips!
Great video. Well edited, good quality and content.
I used your 3rd technique, and made a Deck of Many Things for our Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Thank you so much!
I know this video isn't the newest but I was looking for easy ways to make item cards for dnd and I will absolutely be using that first method ❤ thank you!
Super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Quick, simple, informative. Great video!
Thank you, I make hundreds of pictures a week and this is exactly what I was looking for!
You have made my life! Thank you so much! For my budget I will be looking into card sleeves and old cards. 😁
7 years ago and still useful, thank you for this!
I don't know why this showed up in my recommendations, but it was exactly what I needed to know. Thank You!
Absolutely beautiful and concise video! Loved it! I needed to learn and you taught well!
I love your games! I still have some of the original black and white ones from my game subscriptions! Just played one (the pipe game) last night at my board game meetup!
Very informative, thanks for making this video. It helped a lot.
I was looking for easy solutions to reprinting an out of print game. this is it. thank you!
“Put in your trash card”
*Puts in a Magic the Gathering card*
Every magic the gathering booster have some trash cards like tokens or something
so i wasn't the only one who cringed at that? lol
Best tutorial so far. Thanks!
Thank you for this video! Very helpful ❤️
Very Informative and tight video. Absolutely recommend if you wish to learn the basics of making your own cards
Excellent video, thanks! I've used methods two and three but recently acquired some card sleeves to try method one. Last year I found the BEST corner rounder on Amazon. I loved it so much I gave one to my mom who does a ton of scrapbooking. It's so much easier to use than those small thumb pressing corner rounders. It's the Sun-Star Kadomaru Pro Corner Cutter and has three-sizes of corner cuts: Small, Medium, Large.
Thank you - I really appreciate you sharing these techniques :-)
awesome man, I was making a deck for my boardgame and the first method is impacable! thx for vid
Great tips, thanks for sharing.
yo that was like, SO helpful, thanks a bunch man
Presentation was well done!
Very professional video and a good use of b-roll.
Thanks for making the video. I haven't tried is the label approach. I'll try that one the next time I am prototyping.
What a great video, thanks dude
Thanks for the videos. I wanna get a playable version of Trogdor while I wait for the real deal. (Also BIG THANKS for helping the Bros. Chaps bring the game from concept to reality in the first place!)
Thank you for the video I can play with my friends and family we have so much fun
Great ideas! Thanks.
puuuuurfect. This video was... brilliant.
Super helpful! Thank you!
Awesome video!
Thanks so much for this!
OMG James I love your humor!! xD
Great video! Thank you so much!
Very complete and useful, i love your work congratulations. Friendly from Belgium ^^
Beautiful cards , cheers😊🎉❤
like three the best, awesome, thanks.
Wow...very informative!
This has given me some ideas for my M:tG fan set/cube.
I think I'll do some test runs......
Also, yes. Pay $0.00 USD for your project card stock, unless you are using Method #2.
Great Video! helpful! Thx
Very cool video, thanks a lot!
Nice pointers. I print my cards on card stock...usually through Staples.
this was super helpful.
You can purchase blank playing cards front and back! You can even order custom playing card backs!
Great video!
How the first one really help me, thank you
only 800 likes? This video deserves way more. :D
Man. Thank You alot. this video help me alot.
This is great, thank you good sir.
cool - using this for the project
thx! good ideas.
GW are saying all their necromunda cards are going out stock.........this video is excellent!!!
These are great! Now I can make a proper Sabacc deck!
Thank you so much !!!
Thank You, useful.
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nice video. very helpful
Nifty video, thanks!
I was most struck that you apparently have a nicer paper cutter than I. Mine has no guard stop (and in hindsight, it's such an obvious speed improvement), and the backstop isn't quite at 90 degrees from the blade. I've been meaning to buy a new one, but I can't find reviews I trust. You clearly have a lot of experience with paper cutters (or at least one), do you have recommendations for brands or specific cutters?
Thanks for the great video. Where did you get the corner rounder for the cards? I've been having trouble finding one at the size.
Thank you. My suggestion in order to get a perfect deck cut; is to ask on your local offset printer to cut them all with its hydraulic pressure guillotine, they normally make it for free. 1:02 face deserves a cap, sunglasses and big joint :)
I tend to go with half size (2.5 by 3 inch) index cards; Oxford puts 200 in a pack and you get forty in five different colors. Thanks for the video.
great video index extract paper now thats what i need for my tcg
BRILLIANT!!!
clicked off of google to come to youtube and leave a like and comment because this video was just that helpful.
Thinking of making some cards out of old train tickets, they're roughly playing card size and easy to shuffle, my only concern is they might be a bit flimsy, but I think they'll look cool when they're done xD
Great video
I use the playing cards in sleeves with the paper
Im so excited to make my “dungeoneer” game!
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Could you make a tutorial on how to print out card designs?
Just what I was looking for! Thank you for the tutorial
For the second method (with cardstock) I can't seem to cut them right, they always end up off and not the same
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This just popped up on my TH-cam home page, which is very handy because I'm going to need to prototype a card game soon. :) Do you have a card-layout program or template or method you can recommend? Thanks!
I have a cardgame template
When is the bean games with 3 rules and 1000 ways to win coming out? I remember the promo poster for it years ago.
Thanks for this video! I recently got into Zombicide and am loving it, but I'm not a fan of the micro-cards they chose to use, so I'm going to reprint them and some custom items as average sized gaming cards. I'll probably use the first method, as I have hundreds of extra sleeves lying around, as well as hundreds more of junk lands I'll never use from MTG.
Thank you so much! I will make my own TCG now!
excellent.
James this is great...What do I need to actually make my cards to print? I have been looking for a template so I can make the cards but I haven't seen any.
Great video! Personally, I'm a big fan of using an Xacto to cut cards, but for anyone who is just getting into game prototyping I think your methods are probably easier -- and maybe safer. (Seen too many newbies slice off parts of their fingers with Xactos!)
D&D I am coming!!!!
thx a lot! I had everything for D&D except the item cards now i can make my own and play with my friends :')
after sooo long :')
I suggest for beta testing the first method works best. Because if a card is too op or you need to change you can easily print out a new card and put it Into the sleeve. Or even put new versions of the same card over the old one.
option 1 easy and done !
wow the simplest and easiest is putting printed paper into card sleeves, thank you man
where did you get the cards from? I'm looking for a fast paced, dungeon crawl, kinda like munchkin, but more strategy based.
Very helpful
How do you get the design you want because they look very detailed and I want to know how to get them
How do you size your images correct to fit the sleeves
do you have a certain template you used to make the playing cards?