We’ve been in business for 7 months so its about time we got some business cards printed, especially since we’ve finally settled on a logo!
The company is called EndGame, so for a bit of fun we thought we’d put a maze on the back of the card. The point of a maze is to get to the end, ie that’s your EndGame. Beautiful. The logo is sort of half isometric, so we figured the maze needed to be isometric so that it could join up with the logo as the finish point.
Anyway, one thing led to another and soon I’m playing with a depth-first algorithm to create the maze, a winding number algorithm to keep the maze inside the right space and drawing lines at 30 degrees in SVG.
But that wasn’t enough, if we can draw one maze, then why not draw 1,000 mazes, so every card can have a unique solvable maze. Everyone’s EndGame in life is different, so this seemed like a good idea. To quote our printer, “that is out there and very different haha “awesome” and no -one has ever done this in my 20 + years of printing so your a first … ”.
That’s it. If we’re the first, then there’s no going back.
Shouldn’t these have a line showing you how to escape the maze and reach your ‘end-game’?
I wondered about doing that – but it takes the fun out of it! Instead I thought that if you can’t do it in 30 seconds then I’ll ask for the card back
Maybe I should print a couple of difficulty levels …
well done – from experience in print (previous life) i understand the challenge!
Will you be open sourcing your business cards?
Have you ever heard of open source business cards