Predefined Base Card Templates

[hristoiankov]

When creating a new template, provide options for selecting a predefined base template.

Features:

• Include basic card sizes: Poker, Tarot, Square, Circle, Hexagon, etc.
• Include sub categories within those basic sizes that provide predefined template: Modern, Magic, Card Back, etc.
• Spend some time creatively coming up with card templates.
• Will need a global place to store template assets.
• Once template is part of the project, its assets should be added to the project assets (Ex. template-*).
• Or there can be a set of built-in assets that can be pulled in to the cards (symbols, images, backs).

Built-in Assets:

• How will the assets be referenced? assets.cider.*
• How will the assets be displayed? toggle-show-cider-assets
• What assets will be available?
  • card backs
  • template fronts
  • symbols
  • banners
  • characters
  • landscapes
  • items

[jordanwallwork]

Is this being worked on? This would be really useful to me and I'd be keen to lend a hand with the development if I can be of any help?

[hristoiankov]

Probably the most useful thing here would be to have a survey of what sort of assets and templates users are looking for. I can then draw those out in order from most-requested to more-niche.

An alternative I've considered is collaborating with someone that has already created an asset pack and import that in.
Ex. https://graphicriver.net/card-graphics-in-game-assets

Some questions:
What kind of card game are most users creating (Ex. TCG, trick-taking)?
What is the most common theme (Ex. fantasy, simple/uno)?
What are the most common symbols people use (Ex. coin, life, etc.)?

[jordanwallwork]

The bit that would be really useful to me isn't the predefined templates so much, but the ability to specify additional card settings. I kinda focused on the "Include basic card sizes: Poker, Tarot, Square, Circle, Hexagon, etc." bit and glossed over the rest lol.

I'm playing around with CIDEr for a project currently and it uses landscape cards; I know I could fake this by applying transform: rotate(90deg) to the card contents, but it makes everything more confusing. Being able to specify "this is a landscape card, tarot size" would be great.

[hristoiankov]

You don't need to rotate to get a landscape card design, you can just switch the width and height values in the CSS of the template.

[jordanwallwork]

Oh my god I can't believe I missed that 🤦 thanks!