Disappointment
Mar. 4th, 2025 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverIt seems that the teaser trailer for DW Series 15 (yeah, I cleave stubbornly to the old numbering system) came out, and no, the title of the post has nothing to do with that. I haven't watched the trailer and I don't plan to, because I really don't like spoilers. I love going into new content with no information and no expectations. I like the surprise. It's so hard for shows to surprise us with anything nowadays, because everyone seems to want trailers that show us what's coming up, and of course there are people who try to steal the secrets directly, so that they can post them.
Ah well, I'm just a curmudgeon. Much like cleaving to the old numbering system.
Anyway, the disappointment is about a game that I've been playing for something like 18 years now. It's a tiny game called PackRat, in which you collect sets of cards. It's slightly more complicated than that, but the details aren't important. It started off as a Facebook game, but it moved off Facebook and is now on its own website and on mobile.
The sets of cards are related by topic, so like there's a set called Caterpillar Spring, which is all about caterpillars, and a set called Sock Monkeys, and a set called Cinematic Necklaces, etc. After so many years, there's over 1000 sets... That's a lot of cards.
Each card has a name and art, and the art quality does vary but we have a few favorite artists. One of the artists is named C. A. Ronquillo, who is a graphic designer but does art for this game as a side job. He's definitely on the geeky side, and if there's a geeky set, he's probably the one who did it. He's done a number of DW cards - I think there are at least two TARDISes (one of which is named "Borrowed Time Machine", so he knows the show well), and in a Valentine's Day set called Supercouples, one of the couples was Rory and Amy.
Just recently, they announced a new set called Rides, and the teaser for it said something to the effect of "There are all kinds of fictional vehicles... including magic phone booths." Oh, come on, that's gotta be a TARDIS, right? I mean, yes, it could be Bill & Ted, but it's more likely to be a TARDIS.
Well, the set has come out. First, it's not done by C. A. Ronquillo -- it's done by one of the art studios the game contracts to do art for them. Second, it's an animal set, where any characters depicted are animals, which could be fine but in general I'm not fond of. And third, the top card in the set is called "Dr. Goose and Phone Booth", and it is exactly that: a goose coming out of a red British phone booth.
Seriously.
We figure that they sent the list of cards to the art studio, and the art studio made exactly what was on the tin: they looked up what a British phone booth looks like and drew that. And I guess no one quality-checked them.
Ah well.
I've always meant to post here the PackRat cards that have been DW-related. Maybe I'll get to it some day, but it won't have this card in it.
Ah well, I'm just a curmudgeon. Much like cleaving to the old numbering system.
Anyway, the disappointment is about a game that I've been playing for something like 18 years now. It's a tiny game called PackRat, in which you collect sets of cards. It's slightly more complicated than that, but the details aren't important. It started off as a Facebook game, but it moved off Facebook and is now on its own website and on mobile.
The sets of cards are related by topic, so like there's a set called Caterpillar Spring, which is all about caterpillars, and a set called Sock Monkeys, and a set called Cinematic Necklaces, etc. After so many years, there's over 1000 sets... That's a lot of cards.
Each card has a name and art, and the art quality does vary but we have a few favorite artists. One of the artists is named C. A. Ronquillo, who is a graphic designer but does art for this game as a side job. He's definitely on the geeky side, and if there's a geeky set, he's probably the one who did it. He's done a number of DW cards - I think there are at least two TARDISes (one of which is named "Borrowed Time Machine", so he knows the show well), and in a Valentine's Day set called Supercouples, one of the couples was Rory and Amy.
Just recently, they announced a new set called Rides, and the teaser for it said something to the effect of "There are all kinds of fictional vehicles... including magic phone booths." Oh, come on, that's gotta be a TARDIS, right? I mean, yes, it could be Bill & Ted, but it's more likely to be a TARDIS.
Well, the set has come out. First, it's not done by C. A. Ronquillo -- it's done by one of the art studios the game contracts to do art for them. Second, it's an animal set, where any characters depicted are animals, which could be fine but in general I'm not fond of. And third, the top card in the set is called "Dr. Goose and Phone Booth", and it is exactly that: a goose coming out of a red British phone booth.
Seriously.
We figure that they sent the list of cards to the art studio, and the art studio made exactly what was on the tin: they looked up what a British phone booth looks like and drew that. And I guess no one quality-checked them.
Ah well.
I've always meant to post here the PackRat cards that have been DW-related. Maybe I'll get to it some day, but it won't have this card in it.
