Help

Each guide follows one game, Who Eats Whom? Pond Chain, a food-chain card game for a classroom, with a screenshot of every step.

• Your first project

  Make a project, find your way round the editor, and set the size of the cards, their bleed and their backs.

• Lay out the cards

  Text and image fields, fonts and text that fits, what each card has of its own, and layouts for cards of different designs.

• Pictures

  Upload pictures, pick icons, crop them and cut them to a shape, and say what each card's picture should show.

• Draw frames and shapes

  Draw a card's frame, title bar and badges in shapes, colours and gradients, and combine shapes into new ones.

• Print the cards

  A print-and-play PDF, the check before printing, images for a print shop and what they cost there, and sending a game to The Game Crafter.

• Work on a game with Claude

  Ask Claude, in the chat beside the cards, to change them, check them or price them, and have bots playtest the game.

• Cards in a spreadsheet

  Fill the cards in from a CSV file or a linked Google Sheet, and keep them there.

• Share and keep your work

  A link that shows the cards to anybody, the history of every version, and the whole project as a file of your own.

• Play online

  A deck for Tabletop Simulator, sheets of cards for the other online tabletops, or the cards sent to Dustin's Designer Den.

• Your work is yours, and the free plan

  Why a game made here is never stuck here, and how to make the most of the free plan.

• Connect an AI assistant

  Let Claude or another assistant you already use work on your projects.

Reference

The project file: what is in a project's zip and its project.json, to print the cards, read them in a script or take them to another tool without Card-a-mon.

Choosing a tool

Coming from nanDECK, Dextrous or Chitmunk, or choosing between them? See Card-a-mon or nanDECK?, Card-a-mon or Dextrous? and Card-a-mon or Chitmunk?

If you have a question, write to info@cardamon.lt or ask on Discord.