GeekStack – A Collectible Trading Card Game Featuring The Heroes of Science and Technology

“We may be at a time when we need geeks as the heroes” – Larry Lessig

True Heroes

Our world is built on science, intelligence, and ambition. GeekStack is an adventure with the people, events, and achievements that built the world we live in. It is also an introduction to the ideas behind the heroes.

GeekStack will be a collectible trading card game featuring these people, events, achievements, and ideas. The first series will be based about Computers. Series I is expected to be ready for play testing in mid 2009.

What To Expect

Updates: There will be 1-2 blog posts a week and other news announcements as the project progresses.
Organization: How will the set be structured? How many cards?
Product Information: When will they be done? How will they be sold? Where can I get mine?
Card List: Who will be in the first set? Who won’t make the cut?
Sample Cards: When I get some made, I’ll preview them on the site.
Special Offers: Email subscribers and regular commenters will have access to special offers and play testing spots. People who review or help promote GeekStack might even get freebies!
Contests: Part of being a geek is being a bigger geek than the next person. You’ll get your chance to prove it.

What Not To Expect

I’m a one-man unfunded startup, and I have a full-time job plus a family. Because of those limitations, some things will come slowly or not at all.

Pretty graphics: I’ll be doing the art myself, and I’m a programmer. For now, the pretty colors and typography are only in your head.
Fancy website: While I have all kinds of ideas for ways to build a community around the cards, my main focus is on designing the structure and mechanics of the game, and the software to play it online, so until after the release of Series I, most of the interactivity will be through good old blog posts, comments, and email.

Participate

Much of this is swirly-twirly in my head, or barely sketched out on paper. If you have an opinion about who should be included, ideas to spice it up, or if you’d like to help, contact me using the form on the About page. If you’d like to be kept informed about the design and development of the series, you can keep in touch in several ways: