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.)

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