Ace is more than a trading card game — it's a canvas for collective creativity. You're invited to design new cards that excite players and collectors alike.
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Okay, it's the final round of the game. You can only play one more card. Your opponent is about to win. Raise your hand if you're going to play Satoshi's Spirit. And how many for the playful Doge?
Who wants to play Doge? And how many for the formidable FTX Titanic? Okay, we got some reckless people out here too. All right. All right, well, I can't tell you how that game would have ended, but you'll be able to play for yourself if you want to create your own stories and see how your own games end.
I'm Colton Orr. I'm the artist and founder of Ace TCG, which is a physical trading card game. It's all about Web3 lore. and previously I was a Spider-Man character artist at Sony and then the creative director at Gitcoin. So I've spent a lot of my career thinking about how stories and mythology impact the reality around us.
So we have about 200 cards in Ace at this point and by playing the game and collecting the cards people get to learn about the magic of Web3. and collecting the cards, people get to learn about the magic of Web3. Now, I've always thought of Ace as being kind of a pop-up city game. I created the first version of it at Zuzulu, and then we got funding through Gitcoin while I was there. My brother and I then worked on it, launched the first version at ZooConnect, and sold out there.
And we then recently launched Alpha 2, And I'll have a bunch of those cards here so that people can actually play the game, take some home. And if you'll be at DevCon, we're actually going to have our first tournament there as well. So one of my favorite things to do as a creative is just share our process so that other people can also just bring their own creative visions into the world, share their projects and passions. And these are a couple of pieces that I made recently using the Edge City art style, and I made them based on the different residencies that were happening here. I posted, somebody asked about how I made them, so I already put a video out, but I would be happy to just chat with people more if they want to create some more art like this.
There's a couple different, a lot of different ways that you can make this kind of thing. And a similar piece, this is just a GIF from a video, and this was based on a game that was played recently, and I took the end turns of that game and then turned it into an animated short and then created a new card based on the outcome of that game. There's just a lot of interesting, creative stuff, and especially fun videos that you can make now that are really, really easy, and they're a great way of telling the stories that you want to share. So I believe we're all here talking about frontier technology and human flourishing, and I think a lot of cutting edge tech is often misunderstood and misused. And stories are the way that we can actually connect with people and share how these things can make that brighter future that we all envision.
So if anybody wants to talk about ways that they can do that with their projects, would love to chat, talk about how to make card games. And if you want to get your hands on the physical cards, I'll be around. Thanks.
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