There are still fans of classic card games, for which you need a classic deck of cards. Designers are constantly inventing new "costumes" for the cards so that skat, poker, mau-mau and the like don't look too boring on the gaming table at home. Aristo recently started crowdfunding for playing cards with a steampunk look - and the idea is a hit. The funding goal has long since been reached, and the campaign will run until October 18th. Good for steampunk fans who have plenty of time to get in.
Jack, queen, king, ace: as boring as that may sound, card game classics are also regularly on the table in the modern board game scene. To spice up the classics from back then, there are thematic decks of cards - for example on superheroes, comics, films or steampunk.
Steampunk card deck: Queen with ratchet
Even in the Victorian era, people apparently handled cards and played the same games, only with much nicer cards. Aristo has set himself the task of turning boring decks of cards into small works of art. This starts with the packaging. In any case, the topic of steampunk is popular. The designers had already raised their first edition of a steampunk card deck via crowdfunding in the spring of last year Kickstarter financed, even extremely successfully. Around $20.000 was raised and almost 600 supporters took part.
The maps find visual equivalents in a fantasy world of Victorian England in the 19th century. The simple idea: Instead of a deck of cards as a mass product, Aristo relies on artistic designs of game material that hardly anyone has thought about for decades. Modern decks are no longer just functional, but visually stand out from each other. The poker deck contains 54 playing cards, including jokers - all illustrated in steampunk style. It is not particularly expensive, Aristo charges just under 11 euros for the pledge.
A new financing campaign is now running, this time for Volume 2 of the retro-futuristic basic theme. And that is also well received by the fans. Once again, the creators achieved their target in a short time: this time it only took an hour, which Aristo needed another day for the first campaign. Aristo wanted to take in almost 1.200 euros, and now the 5.000-euro mark has already been broken - and that Campaign for the steampunk card set is running on Kickstarter until October 18th. Fans don't have to wait long for the tickets after successful crowd financing: delivery is planned for December 2020.
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