Full Color Games

Has anyone paid any attention to any of the games this company, Full Color Games, has been producing and marketing? Judging by the looks of their booth from G2E and I know they are exhibiting (and sponsoring) this week at Raving, they have seemingly spent thousands upon thousands of dollars doing this.

Am I out of line in that I don't see how anyone would want to adopt completely new cards and allow him to simply take over the existing games out there? Furthermore, doesn't making the card colors incredibly important, as he is doing in his/their games, create a severe issue with game protection (minus the face up and 21 games). Because most of the games I see revolve around the color of the cards, doesn't the fact that the entire face of the card shows the color make it virtually impossibly NOT to expose the card when dealing? Simply the corner of the card slightly elevating from the table exposes the color of the card, no?

Also, one of their main selling points is that these new decks create an "infinite" number of creations that can be made. Cant anyone do the same by simply adding extra cards to the standard deck, like Lucky 13s did for his Blackjack game?

The company apparently seems to think they will take over the world, well the casino world at least...

Does anyone have any opinion on this?

Colored cards seem to pose no problem to me for games dealt face up, i.e. Blackjack dealt from a shoe. I agree that games requiring your cards to be dealt face down run the risk of exposure. Very impressive looking site and board. Richard Newman who is recommended by the Wizard is on there. But I think they face the same challenges as any other new game designer in getting/selling their game to a casino. Maybe they would have greater success in selling to the masses. Uno, immediately comes to mind.

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Very impressive looking site and board. Richard Newman who is recommended by the Wizard is on there.

I was also very surprised by his presence on it...

They're not the first company to market 5 suit decks or colored cards, but it looks like they are providing some flexibility to game providers. I can't say it does much for me, but they may have something.



This, for example, is a 5 suit unique colored deck with a game that's been around for 15-20 years (I bought one about 10 years ago; not sure when it came on the market). There are quite a few others.

There are a few games, like Phase10 and Uno, who've done well with specialty decks (though we played both as kids with standard decks). I guess it takes putting some good rules with the decks. I see them doing better with unique rules than playing standard games with non-standard decks, but I could be wrong. And perhaps there's a game protection angle to it.