project 7

card game instructions

In this project, you will combine elements of what you have learned from the other projects to create a multi-page layout with complete instructions for a card game. You should presume that your design is for one part of a book that will have many cards games in it, so your work should be adaptable to other games.

You can choose a game you are familiar with or one you want to learn about. Here are some possibilities:

complex	medium	easy
euchre pinochle skat canasta poker bridge	blackjack gin rummy hearts bézique michigan	spades go fish crazy eights whist klondike I doubt it

Here are some of the organizing elements that will probably be appropriate for your instructions.

• name of card game
• brief history or summary of game
• number of players
• the pack needed
• the shuffle and deal
• play of the game
• kinds of hands, melds, etc.
• scoring (table if necessary)
• variations
• irregularities
• strategy tips

sources for texts

The U.S. Playing Card Company has a web site on which they have complete rules of many card games. The text matches a paperback book that I have, so if you want to use this material, you can photocopy from my book but grab the text itself from the web pages.

http://www.usplayingcard.com

I have taken several games from the above web site and made text files for you to use. They are all compressed into this folder:

http://www.fleetingimage.com/wij/gd212/game-rules.zip

Another source of game rules is John McLeod's web site:

http://www.pagat.com/alpha.html

You are welcome to use other sources or your own writing instead.

Save the source material for your card game as a BBEdit text file or as a Microsoft Word file and do preliminary proofreading and arranging and editing of the material for your card game before bringing it into Quark.

Your design should not resemble the printed book from which you draw your source material. For example, the U.S. Playing Card Company book uses inline heads for sections, but you may want to have stand-alone subheads.

Please include lines of text crediting all the sources of your material near the end of your project pages.

sources for dingbats

• clubs = option-r in Zapf Dingbats
• diamonds = option-g in Zapf Dingbats
• hearts = option-2 in Zapf Dingbats
• spades = shift-option-e in Zapf Dingbats

There is also a free shareware TrueType font called Cards that is available here (and also in my faculty server folder):

http://www.pagat.com/com/cardsttf.hqx

• clubs = c in Cards font
• diamonds = d (open) or 2 (filled) in Cards font
• hearts = h (open) or 1 (filled) in Cards font
• spades = s in Cards font

required elements

• facing pages document, with dimensions of your choice
• master page with blue margin guides and underlying baseline grid
• page folios, running heads, or other repeated elements on master page
• appropriate style sheets defined and applied cleanly to all paragraphs
• underlying baseline grid that matches leading of text
• important blocks of text aligning with the baseline grid

recommended elements

• green guides on master page to help position elements
• subheads with a design that allows text to align across columns
• pull quote, sidebar box, or table of terms or scoring to add visual variety

optional elements

• one spot color (red) chosen from Pantone color library, not CMYK
• use of clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades dingbats from special font
• character style sheet to emphasize special vocabulary
• glossary of special vocabulary definitions
• multi-column format, if desired
• illustrative or photographic elements, if desired

file preparation

Save your work using lastname-7.

If you use color, you may also include a sample spread from a color printer. You can also print "separations" to show the black plate and the red plate elements.

readings

Tschichold, Jan. The Form of the Book.
Clay in a Potter's Hand (pp. 3-7)
On Typography (pp. 12-22)
Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Typography? (pp. 33-35)

Hochuli, Jost. Designing books: practice and theory.
Book design as a school of thought (pp. 11-30)