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# Expos are so much better with this deck-building business card game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/expos-are-so-much-better-deck-building-business-card-game/
- Published: 2014-04-10T17:46:11.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:33:16.000Z
- Description: Your de facto business card is a no-frills presentation of your name and number and Twitter handle, so potential business partners can contact you later on. But if you are a game designer among an expo of game designers, it might be advantageous to flaunt your chops by designing an entire game that
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, Board games, card games, Friendship, tabletop games, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Your *de facto* business card is a no-frills presentation of your name and number and Twitter handle, so potential business partners can contact you later on. But if you are a game designer among an expo of game designers, it might be advantageous to flaunt your chops by designing an entire game that fits on a 1.5×3″ piece of paper.

That’s what Manuel Correia decided to do for EGX Rezzed, as he [blogged about on Gamasutra](http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ManuelCorreia/20140407/214932/Contactics%5FA%5Fgame%5Fon%5Fa%5Fbusiness%5Fcard.php?ref=killscreen.com) today. The difficulty was how to make a fun game whose instructions were straightforward enough to fit on a card and that could be played with items that someone always has on them. So he craftily devised a card-fighting, deck-building game out of—what else—business cards. It’s kind of a coffee-table-book-about-coffee-tables sort of thing.

It works by assigning special attributes to business cards with certain characteristics, such as if they having rounded edges or a white background. And it plays out in a quick game of card-laying strategy, which you can glean by squinting at the card in the above snapshot. It sure has my self-printed Averys beat.