Ada Lovelace Day

It’s Ada Lovelace Day!

She was one of the historical figures I built this deck’s cast around.  Some of the more esoteric inclusions, like Henri Giffard, fit holes that I discovered as I went about building my list, but Ada Lovelace was in the cast from day one.

She’s our Queen of Hearts in the Tinker Deck and Rusty Tinker Deck.  Perhaps it would have made more sense to have Jane Austen in that role for the “romance” connection, but for whatever reason, the “Love” in Ms. Lovelace’s name seemed like a more natural fit for the Hearts suit to me.  (And it seems that diamonds are sufficiently romantic in the end, more or less.)

Anyway, some desktop images seem to be in order.  Just ’cause.

 

 

 

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Tinker Gearchips and Dragon Coins

Just a couple of photos from this morning’s emails.  These are the final coins, and they will be going into production soon.  We did ask them to do something for vertical stacking of the Gearchips, and I gave them a design that could have worked… in theory.  They took a look at it and decided that, for whatever reason, their systems just weren’t going to cooperate.  That said, we are getting meshing gears, so that’s a big win, as far as I’m concerned.  The Dragon Tinker coins really make me smile.  Something about that mischievous Havok & Hijinks dragon face, I think.

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Tinker and Rusty Tinker Print and Play

I offered these as a base level $1 tier on the Tinker Deck campaign.  I don’t have .PDF files for these yet, but these .PNG files should work just as well.  (Oh, and we’re still taking orders for the decks for a few days, if you’re interested!)  You can print these on 8.5×11 paper to get properly sized cards.  The art is centered on the page, so you can try to make them two-sided with the backs, if you have a printer that can register things well.  There are two images for each set of six cards; one has the “die cut” lines for where the final cards would be cut, and the other is a clean array of the images.

Thanks, everyone!

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Rusty Tinker Deck Preview

We’re in the final 48 hours of the Tinker Deck project.  It’s a crucial time when we might just be able to pull off the Rusty Tinker Deck as a companion to the original Tinker Deck.  It’s close, very close, we just need a bit of a push over the critical $20,000 mark.

Please spread the word and let people know we’re making the core Tinker Deck!  We’d love to offer the Rusty variant too, if at all possible.

Some previews of the Rusty Tinker Deck below, as well as the original deck (click on an image to see a bigger version, smaller versions at the end of the post if you want them):

Thanks, everyone!  We’re most appreciative of anything you can do to spread the word and help us get to make the Rusty Tinker Deck along with the core deck.  It really is a crucial time, with the last, big stretch goal in view.  We can get there, we just need some help in getting the word out to interested parties and getting that last bit of funding in.  If you’ve been on the fence, it’s a great time to jump in.  We have some great extra “Add On” items available, and some really sweet cards.

Thanks!

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