The return of the Sabacc Deck

Eclipse

Member since: 2013
Location
Oklahoma City

When I first converted SWAG from pmachine to Drupal, it was very difficult to differentiate certain images that were on the old system. This was probably due in part to my lack of experience as a programmer at the time, but by the same token, it was the best I could do. Amongst the images that were "lost" in this was was the Sabacc Deck. I've had many people over the years ask for it to come back, but the tools I had made my life more difficult that perhaps it should have been. With the upgrade, I made getting that back a top priority and I have indeed done so now: Sabacc Deck

The sabacc deck images are smaller than I'd like, and I actually had to recreate one of them because it had been lost, but the others were all available, so that recreation was trivial. I really feel like this is a thing that we should revisit as a community, and I'm curious what the artists might think of a sabacc deck challenge. This is the sort of thing that is both useful for RPG games and useful to the Star Wars community as a whole. It's just an idea, I'm very curious about feedback here.

Also, as I was looking for the sabacc deck images, I noticed that I missed a BUNCH of great art that just never ended up getting approved. Some of you submitted art into a black hole, and that's just not ok. It's going to take some effort since there's quite a bit of it, and also since it's mixed in with stuff we deemed "not-SWAG-material", but it is something I want to do because there are quite a few images that are too good to let waste away in obscurity.

If you're one of those artists, my apologies, but I am trying to make some forward progress here. :-)

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Asok

Awesome! I've always mourned the loss of the Sabacc deck.

 

And I am totally down for a new deck! I think collaborations are in order...

Eclipse

I do too, for my part, I'd really like to see us come up with a consistent back for any decks that are produced, and then perhaps 2 or 3 (or more if we have the support) new deck styles for the front faces. I think we might have gotten 2 of our card values mixed up as well if the wookiepedia entry for Sabacc is reliable.

I'm disappointed by the size of the images for the sabacc deck. I think we could probably convert a good portion of what's there to perhaps an EPS file and make it readily available for everyone to work with? The coins specifically seem like they might be an area that could benefit from being turned into freely available vectors. Still a completely new approach to the deck and in a larger dimension, would be really great. I am of course just thinking out loud here.

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Eclipse

So I've been toying with this for a bit. I had the beginnings of a vector version of the old SWAG logo (which I'll try to make available as an eps or something soonish if possible) and so I reworked that into the beginnings of a playing card back. I'd really like to do something really vector-y and graphic in the white space, and maybe even in the black wrap around. Any thoughts?

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/812b50d2-8a5d-43e4-9e5e-4c5213561b…

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TNJadeonar

Way cool! Yeah, Vector Art rocks for graphic design!  I'd love to see an updated sabac deck , as well as in larger and higher resolution  :)

I used to use vector graphics for my online rpg games years back in ...? (ack, yeah its been that long ago prior to 2007), creating area maps, floorplans, etc for posting on my website.