What's Here?
Business Card Games inspired by events in the
technology field. Note: I've used up the disk
allocation on this page (15MB), so there will be no
new updates on this page. Please check other sites
on the ring.
What's a Business Card Game
Business Card Games are card games designed to be
printed on microperf business card blanks. These are 8.5"
x 11" sheets of light cardstock with perforations so that
when torn carefully, you get a stack of business cards.
Or in this case, business card-sized game cards.
Our motto: "Print 'em, punch 'em, play 'em!"
These games are created in StarOffice's Draw function.
The games are available for download in Adobe Acrobat
(and sometimes Adobe PostScript) files. The Star Draw
source files are included as well so players can make
modifications to the artwork, text or game mechanics.
Games are designed to be printed on either 8/sheet or
10/sheet blank business cards. I mistakenly purchased some
8/sheet, so I'm using them up first, after which I'll be
consistently using 10/sheet. These can be purchased online
or at office supply superstores. Currently, I see them for
250 business cards (25 sheets of 10/sheet) for $10 to $15
a pack. Shop around.
The Legal Stuff
Business Card Games are licensed as follows unless
specified otherwise for that game:
Anyone is free to download and play these games
without charge.
Anyone is free to make any changes to these games
(not that I can stop you). I just ask to be emailed
any changes so I can consider adding them into the
game.
Anyone is free to redistribute these games if:
This license is attached, unchanged.
No charge is made for the game itself, just for
reproducing the parts and packaging them.
I am given credit (partial credit if
modifications were made to the game.)
You're of course free to use the Star Office files
as templates for games using cards printed on business cards.
It's probably in our mutual best interest if you come up
with a jazzier name than "Business Card Games", however.
The Background
I've always wanted to make a martial arts combat card
game. First pass was using Pagemaker, printing the cards
out on a paper, cutting them out and laminating them to
give them stiffness.
Next was printing them out on cardstock. This was a
step in the right direction (lamination was slow, costly,
and error-prone if you're a perfectionist.) Cutting the
cards out was still a lot of work.
One person commented as much on an early work (no
longer in distribution) and inspiration struck - use
business card blanks for SOHO (Small Office / Home Office)
printers!
WebRing
No reason I should have all the fun. I've created
a
WebRing for other aspiring business card game makers.
Part of this stems from concerns over GeoCities' Terms
of Service, and the fact that I'm currently at half of
my disk space quota.
Initially, Card-Fu Fighter will show up on
the other site to keep this one focussed on business
related business card games. As dealing with technology
occupies most of my waking hours, I expect I won't be as
prolific on the other site.
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Games
Ready, Fire,
Aim!
A turn-based parody of project planning in an
ever-changing business environment. For 3 or more players.
Criteria
A turn-based parody of the process of selecting a
software solution. For 2 or more players.
Firing Fred
A turn-based black-humored party game about
managers trying to terminate one poor sap's employment.
For 3 or more players.
dotCOMbust
A turn-based simultaneous-play parody card game of
creditors fighting over the remains of a belly-up
dot-com. For 3 or more players.
To Spec, On Time,
Under Budget
A satirical real-time card game of multiple companies
marketing their respective software to a common customer
base. For 2 or more players.
Common Carrier
A parody card game of the pricing and service models
of two telecommunications companies fighting to provide
connectivity in a constrained area vacated by another
provider. For 2 players.
Links
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StarOffice 5.2
- Sun's open source Office Suite. Most of the games are
created in Star Draw, and their soruce files are available
for download.
You may need to rename extensions to
.sda to correct for geocities's inability
to host files with StarOffice extensions.
>Template for Avery
5371 cards. 10 cards / page, landscape orientation.
Template for Avery
5371 cards. 10 cards / page, portrait orientation.
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GSview
- open source Postscript viewer and PDF writer.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
- PDF reader for Windows, Mac and Unix platform.
All games are in downloadable in PDF format for ease
of printing.
OpenDiary
My diary, the reason I started this collection of pages.
linuxnewbie @opendiary.com
My email address. I check it at least weekly.
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