Multideck

Name: Multideck
Price: 24.99 USD
Author: Semicolon LLC

Graphics & Design

Only for Mac

$24.99

Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Graphics & Design
Developer

Semicolon LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

5.4
MB

Mac

Multideck is a tool for board and table game designers. It creates and prints custom card decks for game prototypes. Features include: - Fully customizable card sizes with easy presets for standard card sizes - Select fonts and font sizes, styles, and color - Rich text allows embedding images and icons in lines of text - Place images where you want them, at any size - Rotate items to add vertical, angled, or upside-down text and images - Color controls include translucency effects - Support for designing and printing double-sided cards - Print to PDF to create easily shared print-and-play documents - Export to image files for use with online services - Print all, or only selected portions of your decks - Complete manual in the built-in Help pages

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This is GREAT
06/15/2020
wahmetapul
does exactly what it says. Watch the tutorial videos on the developers site to get going. its really flexible and powerful and never having used a templating tool before like this i was blown away about how clever it is. Basically you need a csv file (a spread sheet) for each of your card types where each row is a different card and each column is a feature of that card you want on there. like name of an image file, numbers, text and so on. then in the software you just basically drag and drop objects onto youre template to show werere you want those different card features to show up. you do that once and then the software will generate all your cards from that csv file. It has a number of printing options and just works great i could not be happier with this software.This has not only enabled me to realize some game ideas ive had in the past but it has really inspired me to try new things. Highly recomend this totaly worth the price!
This is GREAT
06/15/2020
wahmetapul

does exactly what it says. Watch the tutorial videos on the developers site to get going. its really flexible and powerful and never having used a templating tool before like this i was blown away about how clever it is. Basically you need a csv file (a spread sheet) for each of your card types where each row is a different card and each column is a feature of that card you want on there. like name of an image file, numbers, text and so on. then in the software you just basically drag and drop objects onto youre template to show werere you want those different card features to show up. you do that once and then the software will generate all your cards from that csv file. It has a number of printing options and just works great i could not be happier with this software.This has not only enabled me to realize some game ideas ive had in the past but it has really inspired me to try new things. Highly recomend this totaly worth the price!
Saving me Tons of Time
03/13/2023
SeanMcTex
I wrote my own software to automate card image production a while back, but the open-source tech stack on which I had based it changed enough that my software stopped working. I went looking for replacements, and found several credible-looking tools, but all seemed to want to charge fairly steep monthly fees for their use -- probably quite worth it if you're doing this sort of design regularly, but I'm enough of a dilettante that it was hard to justify the expense.Enter Multideck! It does pretty much everything I need, and with a nice, info-dense GUI. I've been having a grand time getting my data ported from YAML to CSV and then figuring out all the new capabilities I now have at my disposal.One feature request: in addition to the existing "Stretch to Fit" option for images (which doesn't respect aspect ratios), I'd love a "Grow to Fill" option that would keep the aspect ratio of the original image intact, but just crop the edges as needed to fill the available space. This would allow me to use placeholder imagery of varying aspect ratios without disrupting the layout of the card.In any case, thanks for the specialized, but *very* useful tool.
Saving me Tons of Time
03/13/2023
SeanMcTex

I wrote my own software to automate card image production a while back, but the open-source tech stack on which I had based it changed enough that my software stopped working. I went looking for replacements, and found several credible-looking tools, but all seemed to want to charge fairly steep monthly fees for their use -- probably quite worth it if you're doing this sort of design regularly, but I'm enough of a dilettante that it was hard to justify the expense.Enter Multideck! It does pretty much everything I need, and with a nice, info-dense GUI. I've been having a grand time getting my data ported from YAML to CSV and then figuring out all the new capabilities I now have at my disposal.One feature request: in addition to the existing "Stretch to Fit" option for images (which doesn't respect aspect ratios), I'd love a "Grow to Fill" option that would keep the aspect ratio of the original image intact, but just crop the edges as needed to fill the available space. This would allow me to use placeholder imagery of varying aspect ratios without disrupting the layout of the card.In any case, thanks for the specialized, but *very* useful tool.
like data merge but better.
09/20/2017
papercrafted.com
This is a specific tool for a specific job and it does that job well! I have been using adobe Indesign data merge tool to make decks of cards for a long time. while i would still recommend adobe for high end finished graphics and typesetting Multideck is enough to get profesional looking cards made quickly and easily. also it does not cost $50 a month so on a game designers sallary it is actually affordable.As I already knew data marge i’m not sure I can recomend this product if you have no failiarity working with data merge in other programs but with my previous knowledge the documentation was good enough that I learned to use the program after a few hours of work.
like data merge but better.
09/20/2017
papercrafted.com

This is a specific tool for a specific job and it does that job well! I have been using adobe Indesign data merge tool to make decks of cards for a long time. while i would still recommend adobe for high end finished graphics and typesetting Multideck is enough to get profesional looking cards made quickly and easily. also it does not cost $50 a month so on a game designers sallary it is actually affordable.As I already knew data marge i’m not sure I can recomend this product if you have no failiarity working with data merge in other programs but with my previous knowledge the documentation was good enough that I learned to use the program after a few hours of work.
Fantastic app!
01/11/2022
4String
This is a fantastic app for prototyping cards for board games/card games. Lots of features. Check the developer's website for tutorials. The developer has been very helpful when I've had questions in the past. Highly recommended.
Fantastic app!
01/11/2022
4String

This is a fantastic app for prototyping cards for board games/card games. Lots of features. Check the developer's website for tutorials. The developer has been very helpful when I've had questions in the past. Highly recommended.

- New: Output Sort feature allows automatic sorting of cards when printed or exported. - New: Implemented the Cut command for selected cells in the Content Editor. - New: Added "Show Guides in Preview" option. - New: Added keyboard shortcut in Filter display to toggle "Honor #PrintSelected" (user request) - Fixed: Assorted bugs in the Filter mechanism. - Assorted other bug fixes

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Seller: Semicolon LLC
Size: 5.4 MB
Category: Graphics & Design
Compatibility: Requires macOS 14.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

4+

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