Home made Triple Triad Card Game (Final Fantasy VIII) - Making of

This is a set of Triple Triad cards, entirely hand made, and how we did to create them. All images come from the original game but we did some small customizations (including some friends' signatures)

Triple Triad is a minigame (card game) within Final Fantasy VIII. To play it, the player has to collect cards in the game (or create them using Quezacotl's Card Mod ability) and interact with other characters (by pressing Square button).

This is the complete process that has been used to build the 110 cards, step by step:

I : Design part
1. * Take FF8 Original Screenshot ; You may use emulation to do it, but you will have to resize the image so that it will remain square shaped (not rectangle).
2. * Crop BMP to extract the card image and the numbers.
3. * Get the background and remove it : To remove it, the background is compared to the "sample" background (which a been deduced in an iterative way).
4. * Include Red and Blue gradient instead of the back (since in the game each card exists in 2 forms: red and blue).
5. * Interpolate the image to make it smoother. (Linear interpolation X,Y)
6. * Include FF8 border depending on the card level.
7. * Write Card Number and name. French name on blue side, English name on red side.
8. * Ask friends to sign some of the cards, and insert signature (overlap) to create unique cards.
9. * Include custom red or blue borders, to prevent card border to be too blunt.
10. * Format images and create RTF document including page layout. Each card dimension is 6,5cm x 6,5cm with 0,3cm margin between them.
11. * Repeat process for all the cards (110 cards = 220 images). Since it is not that easy to perform all these steps (1-10) without mistakes and without forgetting one card, a program has been written to do this. At least, all cards are exactly drawn the same way. (This is the "coding" part shown in the video)

II : Construction part
1. * Printing : 28 pages (A4). 8 images on each page.
2. * Cutting.
3. * Stick 2 matching faces on hardback paper
4. * Open laminating pouches and place the card on the center
5. * Use the ghetto laminating machine to solder the edges of the pouches (Caution: Et scroutch la plastifieuse). You can also do it by ironing.
6. * Repeat for each of the 100 cards.

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[ZAECASADEI]

Thumbs up if you'd like these guys to offer the cards as a download so we can print our own decks too!

[brissz77]

hire chinese and you'll become rich

[SamFisherCell]

addictive mini game for sure. I collected every frickin card last time I played this game.

[queenschairLive]

o-o challenge time, make 2 (2 sided sets) 1 set for each player this is my mission DX

[HeavyJunction]

ROFL. The closeup of the failed Selphie followed by the ironing was hilarious. 

[Anik28Wrath]

soooooooo awesome...wish we could just buy something like this for under 50

[ipotpot]

Pity I don't know anything about photoshop etc. If only I could download these cards and make a deck myself. :(

[GioxLP]

Cooooooooooooooooooooool

[TheChainsOFMisery]

they should be sellin' this in every store all across the globe

triple triad is way more than just a mini game...although simple at first it has an incredible level of depth and i could just play for hours(especial with the "plus" and "elemental" rules)

it really becomes like a game of chess where you have to anticipate your opponents moves,evaluate his and your options,plan ahead and envision beforehand all the possible outcomes

[MaidenFan24568]

Did somethig simular to this with an acient mew pokemon card once, didnt turn out great.

[DeanoPiano]

Playing FF8 on the PSP right now, this is probably my favourite FF to date even though I haven't had the chance to complete it since its launch, I must say though I attempted to make my own cards a few years back but had the problem changing them to red backs, why didn't someone just upload them with red backs online? I made a headmaster Cid card to with the same stats as Edea but reversed, im glad you have achieved this, why dont you film some real time battles then? using the random rule ha ha

[Donalob]

@ZAECASADEI Yes please!! Great vid, really enjoyed looking at the process!