Goodbye Series Art, Hello Trading Cards!
Added 2018-02-01 23:32:39 +0000 UTCBack when this Patreon crossed the $12,000 milestone (and holy moly, we can't believe it's gone even further than that, but THANK YOU), we promised you series art. Our intention at the time was to give patrons a special memento for each series as well as giving the artists a chance to showcase their true skill beyond the stick figures we ask them to draw!
However, we've been having some discussions with our artists about the time that this series art requires. From these discussions, we learned that the amount of effort these pieces required went far beyond our original expectations, and it was becoming a huge burden on the artists to create these pieces every few months. Once we learned that, we sat down with the two current artists (Lil Chan and Nick DeWitt) to figure out a plan that would work better for them.
Lil and Nick came up with the excellent idea of trading cards: every series, we will produce a set of 2-5 trading cards showcasing the characters, places, and events from the most recent series. The digital versions of these cards will be shared with you at the end of the series; the physical versions will be printed at the end of the year 2018 and made available for purchase!
The cards may be made available through other means as well, but we're still working on that, and will be sure to keep you updated here on Patreon. Additionally, we're going to try going back and creating cards for past series as well, but right now this is a new program so we're still feeling our way through whether that's possible given our current art load. :)
With no further ado, we hope you enjoy the first set of five trading cards for the Khosrau series! Attached to this post are digital versions of the trading cards for Khosrau Anushirawan, Gondeshapur University, Shartranj & Nardshir ("Chess and Backgammon"), Kavadh I, and the Fortress of Oblivion. Art for these cards was created by series artist Lil Chan!
Comments
He had long productive life as a Emperor
Mike Smith
2018-04-02 03:43:44 +0000 UTCI want to frame this comment as positively as possible. I like the trading cards. They are good. But the big art pieces were GREAT and awesome! If needed, I would suggest to hire more artists to draw them instead. I'd double my contribution (that is meager, I must admit) to have them again. And ideally retroactively for Khosrau and, as I can guess, Gengis Khan's.
Jonathan Cote
2018-02-06 03:38:31 +0000 UTC> Kevadh-shaped holes included I died.
Tiberia Prima
2018-02-05 01:04:08 +0000 UTCKhosrau was #1
Crissa Kentavr
2018-02-04 21:51:37 +0000 UTCI seem to have missed something, what is the series art?
Augusto Bonzini
2018-02-03 17:30:04 +0000 UTCI think this is a good change in general; I feel the art before was a bit too serious and realistic, it didn't fit the Extra aesthetic that well, so I personally was never that excited by them. I will say however that I find the sample cards posted here to be a bit too low quality; I think it's mostly the choice of fonts and lettering, but apart from the central image, they just look a bit cheap and amateurish; revising the fonts, adding some extra frames and icons would increase the quality a great deal, I think. I also think found the descriptions in these samples to be a bit too leaning towards humorous; EH has always had some nice, humorous moments, but I think the cards would need to find a better balance between jokes and serious; I'd rather not have them all be little quips and jokes, that honestly got old just looking at these four.
Marconius
2018-02-03 13:16:22 +0000 UTChmmm, sneaky there. Card numbers start at 002. What/who will be number 1 (it is the loneliest number)?
Dani McKenzie
2018-02-03 05:19:35 +0000 UTCI'm surprised that wasn't the first.
Dani McKenzie
2018-02-03 05:14:51 +0000 UTCBY GOD, there better be a Wapole card.
Daikaiju
2018-02-03 04:42:58 +0000 UTCAny chance there will be cards for previous series and one-offs?
General Luigi
2018-02-03 00:04:43 +0000 UTCOMG Yes! Great Idea!
2018-02-02 22:45:38 +0000 UTCLove this idea
Brett
2018-02-02 14:27:14 +0000 UTCFortress of Oblivion; constructed out of Swiss Cheese
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-02-02 12:42:47 +0000 UTCAt least make this a mock TCG, with some stats or effects in it to suit the character, even if it doesn't make any sense in a global game design sense. Give Khosrau a Troll stat of 10, Kavadh a Nullify Capture effect...
Nosgoroth
2018-02-02 12:33:38 +0000 UTCWe believe the trading cards, both digital and physical, will help make the series art accessible to more folks--often the "keystone pieces" have only been available as limited-edition prints, which ends up disappointing the future fans of Extra History who come along! That said, we definitely appreciate feedback from all our patrons, so thank you for commenting with your ideas. --Belinda
Extra History
2018-02-02 10:26:54 +0000 UTCSoon...
Extra History
2018-02-02 10:10:57 +0000 UTCOh goodness, the insatiable need to catch 'em all would drive me nuts! --Belinda
Extra History
2018-02-02 10:08:23 +0000 UTCThis is not the greatest idea. Up until now, series art was pretty good - something you could put on a wall. These new things are glorified references to jokes in series. If creating series art is such a burden, put it in as a reward for higher milestone.
Pavel Yakushevich
2018-02-02 08:23:00 +0000 UTCThese sound awesome! Just, for the love of god, do not make these into loot boxes...
Just the Worst
2018-02-02 06:23:24 +0000 UTCReally love this idea! :D
2018-02-02 03:58:55 +0000 UTCThere's a chance I could get a Cheng I Sao rookie card? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Paul Lenoue
2018-02-02 03:04:08 +0000 UTCWorking out a trading card game would probably be really hard, and more effort than it's worth without a separate funding operation. But I wouldn't be one BIT surprised if they couldn't somehow crowdsource the game mechanics development pro bono. I haven't seriously played a trading card game since the late 90s, but I could totally see myself investing in an Extra-History themed game.
Paul Grodt
2018-02-02 02:43:48 +0000 UTCCute idea, but you knows we need a Walpole card ASAP.
Paul Grodt
2018-02-02 02:39:25 +0000 UTCYeah
John Liu
2018-02-02 01:47:18 +0000 UTCWell.....there goes all my grocery money....
Symmetrymaster
2018-02-02 01:32:22 +0000 UTCAre we trying to kill James? Cause this is how you kill James.
Daniel R.
2018-02-02 01:05:34 +0000 UTCI love this idea. You could use them like flashcards for history classes.
David Poulton
2018-02-02 01:02:56 +0000 UTCCard 000 must be Sir Robert Walpole!
Marcel Haddad
2018-02-02 00:49:34 +0000 UTCAw, I was hoping for a Weh Antiok Khusrau card. Still, this is a cool idea!
Will Weaver
2018-02-02 00:28:27 +0000 UTCI would increase my pledge if this was a trading card game!
2018-02-01 23:57:02 +0000 UTCI wonder if we could make these into a TCG somehow... Hmm...
Elijah Irons
2018-02-01 23:48:59 +0000 UTCI love this idea! Excited for when the physical cards get released!
Elijah Irons
2018-02-01 23:48:42 +0000 UTC
