ExtraCredits patreon

Goodbye Series Art, Hello Trading Cards!

🕑 Added 2018-02-01 23:32:39 +0000 UTC

Comments

Mike Smith

He had long productive life as a Emperor

Jonathan Cote

I 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.

Tiberia Prima

> Kevadh-shaped holes included I died.

Crissa Kentavr

Khosrau was #1

Augusto Bonzini

I seem to have missed something, what is the series art?

Marconius

I 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.

Dani McKenzie

hmmm, sneaky there. Card numbers start at 002. What/who will be number 1 (it is the loneliest number)?

Dani McKenzie

I'm surprised that wasn't the first.

Daikaiju

BY GOD, there better be a Wapole card.

General Luigi

Any chance there will be cards for previous series and one-offs?

OMG Yes! Great Idea!

Brett

Love this idea

Thomas Alfred Weaver

Fortress of Oblivion; constructed out of Swiss Cheese

Nosgoroth

At 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...

Extra History

We 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

Soon...

Extra History

Oh goodness, the insatiable need to catch 'em all would drive me nuts! --Belinda

Pavel Yakushevich

This 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.

Just the Worst

These sound awesome! Just, for the love of god, do not make these into loot boxes...

Really love this idea! :D

Paul Lenoue

There's a chance I could get a Cheng I Sao rookie card? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Paul Grodt

Working 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.