The RUMORevenant

Tag: game design

Designing Lexid’s Wird Card Illustrations (Creatures, Acts, Places, Weapons, Armor, Items) When There Are Forty Million Wirds With Quintillions More To Come

June 23, 2026

Game Design, Game Design & Development

A Lexid devblog, filed from the middle of the decision, not the far side of it. Not from the Rumorevenant. Nobody at Lumen Eyrie Academy was consulted, and the enchanted ink had the night off. Note: right now we're generating card illustrations using a local Stable Diffusion running on a laptop powered by 100% renewables…
PDF Printsheets of TCG/CCG Cards for Rapid Prototyping

February 25, 2023

Food for thought, Game Design

Using https://pdf-lib.js.org to make PDFs on the fly, for tight control of printout format got me from here: to here: …via a bunch of drafts along the way. 🙂 Unfortunately, using 9 x uncompressed 2048×2048 images per page seems to load the javascript PDF layout script pretty hard. It’s failing silently when trying to compile…