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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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My work on the topic delayed somewhat for I haven't even completed the rules of the game.
However, although it may look like pure showing off for showing off's sake, recently I decided to change the deck's conventions, as it were - not only the faces of the cards. The game is going to be GG-deck-specific and I am not from the English-speaking world, I am from the formerly-Soviet world of Eastern Slavs - hence my modifications of the names of some cards. Suits: ♠ - Pins ♣ - Ways ♦ - Cogs ♥ - Hits Values: 2 - 10 Valet Dame King Ace Black Ensemble Red Ensemble Russian names for Jack is Valet and for Queen is Dama, which have actually been borrowed from French long ago. In French it's Valet and Dame. Soviet media mostly used the French-derived word ansAmbl' for any music bands. So do I the original word ensemble for jokers. Thus, I have paid some respect to my roots, totally removed the possible occult links. Pleased the French players, too. Ace Of Pins by Motorhead, King Of Pins by whoever painted the album cover for Gentle Giant...
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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A Crimson Mellotron ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 10 2020 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Status: Offline Points: 5713 |
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Shut up and take my money!
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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^ I'm at the stage of planning and designing. It's just raw sketches, not well-aligned, not well-thought. I had an idea of the playing card game probably called Knots and I wanted to create a special deck for it.
As of now it's all uncompleted and exist only in electronic format. Anyway, I tried my best to make a concept of what it might be like. Perhaps I must return to the elder look of the playing cards when they all had undoubled, one-direction images. I don't know. But even in the pre-alpha-version raw design, yes, I agree, these cards look nice. Edited by Woon Deadn - October 24 2020 at 15:09 |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Frenetic Zetetic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
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I still got you on designs bro I'm back next week we'll connect, I actually have drafts!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Many thanks. I think I must use the color photo of Tony Visconti (Eight Of Clubs), because even late Martin Smith has the color photo in the deck. It's kinda unprofessional of me to use the only black-and-white photo for Mr. Visconti for no obvious reason. |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Sllepty ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() ![]() Joined: September 09 2020 Location: Oregon Status: Offline Points: 44 |
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I love this so much. Great work!
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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My urge for breaking the old rules continues... New suits for the GG deck of playing cards: ![]() |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Frenetic Zetetic ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 09 2017 Location: Now Status: Offline Points: 9233 |
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Hey bro I'm back PM me let's get it rolling!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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^ Thanks! I hope one day the new deck will see a commercial release so that everybody interested may buy it.
I suppose that my ideas about changed suit signs, suit names, names of some cards... is too much for the start. I think, it must be the same suits, same names, same inscriptions on the cards. Just the GG-related images on each of them. Let's play the... knots, then
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Meanwhile, the Gentle Giant trading cards are already on sale. I may only hope that I have inspired their creators somehow by my project of the playing cards.
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Octopus II ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 21 2023 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 12739 |
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They look fantastic.
![]() I would buy a pack (even though I can't play cards!)
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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I am still hoping someday I will be able to produce my set of playing cards. I have recently printed me a set on cardboard sheets. Anybody can do the same, actually. But to make it all on a professional level... I'd like my playing cards to be plastic, thick enough. I used to have a pack of Charlin Chaplin-themed playing cards by Piatnik. Respectable card makers and all that stuff - but the cards were too thin and fragile to actually use them. Just a nice gift, sorts of. As for the trading cards that are for sale on GG's merch site, they are excellent, indeed. A superb idea! I haven't bought them though, because I don't like trading cards. When I was a teenager in the 1990s I collected some Mortal Kombat ones, and that's it. When I finally complete my project of GG PLAYING cards, I will make all of you people know and possibly (POSSIBLY) send them to you for free. As of now, they are only on screen.
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Here are the mini-ones below:
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Here are the normal-or-so size ones. I have swapped the images of Interview and Octopus, because I decided that putting Octopus in the 2nd rank would be wrong (I still love Interview very much for its stylistic variety and GG-style dissonances galore).
In my comprehension, the suits go high-to-low thus: hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. The black sharp weapon of Spades does not look supreme for me... Too black and too sharptipped, there is. So, I tried to rank it all somehow, to my tastes. Kerry Minnear is the greatest one of them all. Their debut album was excellent for its time, excellent due to its incredible versatility. Giant For A Day the album was obviously better genre-wise than Civilian, as for me. Unfortunately I could not find the large images for the cards of Two and Three, as of now. I'll try to find them on my PC. Unexpectedly, Gentle Giant the band and their output fit putting onto playing cards perfectly! ![]() There are 8 (2*4) members, overall. Four of them were clearly more equal than the other four - no offence, just pure logics. There are 8 (2*4) classic albums in the classic prog style. There are 4 more albums in their discography (1 official live + 3 studio). There are 2 official DVDs plus 2 outtakes&rarities collections. Hardly any other band could play that game called their career that playing cards-alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43987 |
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I thought Saddam Hussein was the Ace of Spades.
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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For those interested, the images are (just in case):
Ace Hearts - Kerry Minnear (the main composer of the band, the keyboardist, cellist, percussionist, frequent singer in studio, occasional rare singer on stage, PhD in composition at London Royal Academy of Music, the man that was selected instead of Elton John; a very humble, gentle, friendly person; a Christian Protestant believer). Diamonds - Derek Shulman (singer and as such the frontman of the band). Clubs - Ray Shulman (bass guitar, cello). Spades - Phil Shulman (winds and some occasional singing; the eldest of the Shulmans, the eldest member in the band, left the band for good very early, but still was the founder and the axis of the band). King Hearts - Gary Green (guitars, a nice and friendly guy). Diamonds - John Weather (drums, percussions, the drummer you actually see on 75% of their photos and 99.9% of their videos). Clubs - Malcolm Mortimore (drums, played on only one album but that was Three Friends the album!). Spades - Martin Smith (drums, undoubtedly also a nice person that left the band after the two albums where they and thus his playing had yet not reached the extreme heights). Queen Gentle Giant (the debut album). Three Firends. The Power And The Glory. Octopus. Jack Interview. Free Hand. In A Glass House (the first album after the departure of Phil, so it was a crisis for them and they were looking for a new approach, more rhythmic one - therefore, the compositions grew longer and in case of artificially expanded "Way Of Life" it became clear they had not have enough new material; hence my relative dislike of the album). Acquiring The Taste (too monotonous for my taste). 10 Playing The Fool - The Official Live (with all my true respect, it's only concert performances and as such very much the repetition of already made material, and several songs from their concert list had to be cut from this album because of duration limitations). The Missing Piece (for me, As Old As You're Young is one of their all-time classic tunes). Giant For A Day (I find it suspicious that Queen's "I'm Going Slightly Mad" recorded 13 years later, sounds very much alike to the eponymous song from this 1978's album; yeah, and GG's debut also ends with the rendition of The British National Anthem 5 years prior to Queen). Civilian (a new wave attempt, the classic GGiant'ish sound has gone forever). 9 Giant On The Box (DVD). GG At The GG (DVD). Under Construction (2 Audio CD). Scraping The Barrel (3 Audio CD + 1 Data CD incl. mp3's).
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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![]() It's all in the pre-beta mode. The images may be changed, modified, swapped, whatever. It would be better for me to use the image of Kerry playing on keyboards, for sure. |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Here we get it all completed now.
Print, play and have fun! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each card in each card what ever what ever... ![]() |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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Woon Deadn ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 30 2010 Location: P Status: Offline Points: 1017 |
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Excuse me for making a one-man performance out of this thread, but here's the ultimate card design: Tony Visconti has finally got a color image!
So, you may download the pictures from this page and compile yourself the whole 54-card deck now. At least, I did so. ![]() |
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Favourite Band: Gentle Giant
Favourite Writer: Robert Sheckley Favourite Horror Writer: Jean Ray Favourite Computer Game: Tiny Toon - Buster's Hidden Treasure (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) |
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