For my trip to GDC earlier this year, I needed some business cards. And fast.  I found plenty of places that would provide generic fill-in-your-info cards and others that let you upload your own designs, usually for an additional fee.  Now, I could live with that, but the processing and shipping times totally killed my hopes of receiving them in time without paying out some extraordinary rush shipping fees.

Scavenging the internet, I found MyMiniCards.com, who advertises a turnaround time of 24hrs and free basic shipping, all for less than $20 (for 100).  They let you upload up to 25 different images to put on the backs of the cards.  And provide a little case to hold 25 at a time.  Unfortunately, they were the now-popular half-size cards, but the customization and quick processing seemed a more-than-fair trade-off.  Since I was scrambling, I just went with the one design show above, a riff on my website design.

I ordered a set on a Thursday afternoon, and they arrived to me on the Monday following that weekend.  Fast! Free! (The shipping, that is.)  Print quality was sharp, the ink doesn’t run, and it’s a good, stiff cardstock. Certainly doesn’t look or feel cheap.

I have about half of that last order leftover, ready for my E3 trip, but I figured that I should probably make some event-specific cards to drive traffic toward the booth, or at least to associate myself with a project that was being shown.  After all, if the game was worth being exposed here, then maybe I’m worth being hired.

I’m similarly in a last minute situation, so I’m going with MyMiniCards.com again.  The designs I made are after the break.  (And like the cards say, come visit us at the IndieCade booth, #652 in the South Hall.)

(Note some of the colors may seem off, depending on your monitor. The files are in CMYK format for printing.)

After seeing this first one alongside the other four, it seemed kind of boring.  I elected not to have it printed anymore.