Week 14- Publish and Final Steps

To finalize my cards, box and box cover, we needed to upload each card from In Design as a JPEG and upload each front of the card on it's own. To do this, I selected 18 cards because that is how many children's cards I had. I then chose my 18 cards and exported them as JPEGs. Next I uploaded them onto the website one by one and dragged them into each box. Because I have the same back for each card, I only needed to upload this card once. Once I did that my cards were good to go. The front of each one was different and the backs were all the same. I then had to upload each adult card with their backgrounds. To do this I repeated the above steps using 18 cards again. I then uploaded the back of the adult card so that I could differ one from the other. I added both sets of card to my cart and then moved onto my game board. I uploaded my game board onto the website, rearranged it because I wanted everything to be centered and saved this board and added it into my cart. Last but not least I had to upload my game board box. I had some trouble doing this because I had lost my game board box on the desktop for some reason, so I needed Nathan's help to try and get my box transferred as a JPEG so I could upload it and get it sent to SXU. He finally found a way to export my box as a JEPG so we were able to send my order. I then paid for the order and printed my receipt, my box should be arriving the week of finals week.

Week 13- Revisions For Cards

After working on all 36 cards, I had to go through all of them and double check to see if they looked the way I wanted. After going through all of my cards that were created on Adobe Illustrator, I then realized that  I have 18 cards for kids and 18 cards for adults so I need to create a background for the 18 kids cards. I thought that incorporating the leprechaun in some way would be a good background for the kids cards because usually young kids are the ones who believe in leprechauns. I also thought that the black form the pot of gold would create huge contrast making the title really pop out. But before placing the pot of gold and leprechaun into place, I had to decide on a background color. The kids cards really had to differ from the adult cards so I was looking for a single colored background but making it unique.  I decided on making the background for the leprechaun a green gradient design fading into the center. I felt that this really made the leprechaun and pot of gold pop. The leprechaun's green hat is not blending together with the green background due to the gradient and since the middle fades to white, the black stands out even more. I went onto Adobe Illustrator and locked all of the colors/lines that were blocking off he leprechaun and the pot of gold. I then copied the image and exported it as a JPEG into In Design. After placing it into In Design, I then resized the image so that it would fit nicely in the middle of the page. Next I copied the text from the back of the adult cards and pasted it onto the pot o gold. I wanted to be sure the fonts were the same because it would make the game look more professionally put together.  I then went through all of my cards for the final time to make sure that they had no spelling errors and were ready to send out to get printed. Above are examples of all 4 of my card types and the the two backs of each card.

Week 12- Current State of Cards

For my cards, I used indesign to create them. For all of my writing, I had made master pages of 4 separate pages, each with a name. I used the typing tool to do this. For each image I have, I had to open up adobe Illustrator, save each image as a JPEG and upload them onto in design separately. I then decided which image I wanted for each card. I then uploaded them onto the master pages so that it would show up on each page. Next I went into Microsoft Word and created my questions, challenges, and statements keeping in mind that I need to make 18 for children and 18 for adults. I did this to double check my spelling and grammar. Next, I created a text box to paste these into. Lastly, I decided to create the back of the card in a way that shows its an Irish themed game but also makes the name of the game pop, so that is when I decided to create an entire card on Illustrator and create the Irish flag with shamrocks. I then put one large green shamrock on the front and my name of my game inside of that in the same font that I used throughout my cards. I have finished all of my cards but am open to any opinions and recommendations to make them even better!