http://geekstack.com/blog/design-issue-judging-the-relative-value-of-compsci-figures/ Official Blog of GeekStack Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://geekstack.com/blog/design-issue-judging-the-relative-value-of-compsci-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-15 GeekStack as Trading Card Game? : GeekStack Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:41:56 +0000 http://geekstack.com/?p=154#comment-15 [...] Given my limited resources for marketing and advertising, “acceptable” will get me a big fat diddly squat, I need to shoot for “ridiculously exceeds expectations.”  Trading cards would be cute, but a game would be enticing.  It would be better for customers, better for business, and it gives a much more dynamic feature for the website (online tournaments, anyone?).  It has created a lot more work, but if that twice as much work makes me 10x more likely to succeed, then it’s worth the time.  I don’t know how this affects my “early 2009″ release time line (I’m guessing … postponing it), but I like the direction it points the product.  It does answer my question about which cards to make rare. [...] [...] Given my limited resources for marketing and advertising, “acceptable” will get me a big fat diddly squat, I need to shoot for “ridiculously exceeds expectations.”  Trading cards would be cute, but a game would be enticing.  It would be better for customers, better for business, and it gives a much more dynamic feature for the website (online tournaments, anyone?).  It has created a lot more work, but if that twice as much work makes me 10x more likely to succeed, then it’s worth the time.  I don’t know how this affects my “early 2009″ release time line (I’m guessing … postponing it), but I like the direction it points the product.  It does answer my question about which cards to make rare. [...]

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