Business Card Breakdown
A downloadable game
Description
You are a powerful Wall Street broker. You must exchange business cards with your peers in order to establish superiority.
To a layperson, all of your business cards look the same. This is a lie. Your business card does not have "black text on a white background". It has Silian Rail lettering and midnight ink, on a field of bone.
Those with taste know this.
Of course, as a courtesy, you explain these special qualities to your peers as if unveiling one of the secret names of God.
Business Card Qualities To Consider
Color - Brightness - Lettering - Spacing
Texture - Thickness - Material - Weight
Finish - Emboss - Deboss - Pattern
Edges - Trim - Bleed - Subtlety
Expense - Designer - Origin - Brand
Theme and Inspiration
This game is about describing business cards in a ridiculous way, in parody of the already satirical "Let's see Paul Allen's Card" scene from American Psycho (2000) - I recommend you search for the video online if you haven't seen it before.
Printing Information
The cards were designed with printing in mind. The dimensions are set to 3.66" x 2.16" to fit the templates for popular printing service - this provides a .08" Trim margin on all sides, leaving you with a standard 3.5" x 2" business card. The Business Card Breakdown RPG Rules - Printable Business Card file has these print boxes set in the file itself.
Credits
Credit for the basic idea and help with development and design goes to my wonderful partner, who you may find on itch.io as eladnarra.
Paper texture background for project page cover image and rules from www.textures4photoshop.com
Download
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Comments
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Got this as part of a bundle and finally read it today. I really like the idea of a simple parody play and the simple design. With only the card at hand I might feel a bit uncreative but the card qualities above seem to be a good inspiration for playing.
Simple and existentially terrifying.