✦ HIVE belongs to @braisedhoney
✦ Canon HIVE blog @talesaboardthehive
“Hah, why do people spend years designing a card deck, I bet I can do it in a few weeks”
- famous last words
So
It all started after I randomly stumbled upon vintage Bumblebee card deck
✨A devious thought occurred it my mind ✨
What if
What if bumblebeedogs instead of card suits ☝️🐻❄️
One thing led to another
And
Ya know
Well
I propose you to lay back, relax, make yourself some honey coffee and take a trip down
🐝 non-canon HIVE card deck 🐝
❗️warning per usual: this is a fan project, I just like making thing look real >:)
Our first stop 💅
✦ Back of the card ✦
4 bumblebeedoggos
they found a ❗️flower biscuit❗️in a plant valley
Will they share their findings? Or will the great fight begin?
Who knows 🤫
✦ Pip cards ✦
A bumblebeepuppy
Another one
And another one
And another one
And-
Each card suit is represented by a different bumblebeedog breed
To tell you honestly I’m still debating on how to name ‘em officially
heart (fluffy) puppy, diamond (very flüffy) puppy, club (flüffy max pro) puppy, spades (energetic flüffy) puppy
✦ the King card ✦
📣 the leader, the ruler, the Captain of cards 📣
Hehe I enjoyed designing the outfits so much >:D
Every card has a leitmotif going (medieval role, flower representing a suit and corresponding bumblebeedog)
Have fun spotting the patterns :D
✦ the Queen card ✦
📣 the keeper of the med bay, the healer, the fashion icon 📣
He’s slaying okay 💅/silly
At first wanted to give a special name only to a “Captain card”
realised ♦️Carmine of diamonds♦️ sounds epic and gives me an extra reason to give this card a additional colour leitmotif
Besides would sound awesome with a third C we have there
✦ the Jack card ✦
📣 the fighter, the knight, the metal defender of the honey kingdom📣
This guy has the purple/navy blue colour leitmotif (because I love leitmotifs 😌)
One of the reasons I was convinced to do other cards, was the notion “Colony can show each suit with his soundwave thingy”
Not sure what sound he makes in order to achieve that, but ey if it works it works
✦ the aroAce card ✦
📣 the scribe, the storyteller, the Narrator 📣
*loud cheering can be heard throughout the ship*
The was an unspoken battle for the Ace card, Narry won
(Captain totally let him win, because Narry threw a tantrum/silly)
Decided to go all out on the theming >:D
Hearts + Diamonds have a sunset aroace flag colour palette, to differentiate the dark suits, used an older version of the aroace flag for Cubs + Spades
✦ Jokers ✦
low key one of my favourite cards from the deck (I like shiny things)
Had a bunch of variations of the layout and couldn’t decide on the final 💥
I like both, you get 4 Jokers 💥💥
Some part of me wants to leave a lil bit of mystery and not explain every detail in the card design
👌︎⚐︎❄︎☟︎ 👍︎✌︎☼︎👎︎💧︎ 💧︎🏱︎☜︎☹︎☹︎ ❽︎☺︎⚐︎😐︎☜︎☼︎❾︎ ❄︎🕈︎⚐︎ ❄︎✋︎💣︎☜︎💧︎
☝✌💧❄☜☼ 📫 🕈✋☠☝ 👎✋☠☝💧 ✌☠👎 💧✋☝☠ ☹✌☠☝🕆✌☝☜
💧⚐🕆☹ 📫 💣⚐☼💧☜ 👍⚐👎☜ ✌☠👎 💧⚐🕆☠👎 ✌☹🏱☟✌👌☜❄
Huh what was that
✦ Action cards ✦
Featuring @idunnowhattowriteheretbh @crimsomcrystal @masky-the-mask and CR0505
(hey 0505 I remember u asked about animals around the ship, here’s your new ship duty /silly)
So since canon characters of the HIVE represent standard figures in a card deck
I created a silly non-canon cards to the standard deck >:D
Action cards are meant to make you do a simple action in the middle of the card game
(I know it’s not a real card deck, but I had a funny image on unsuspecting players starting a game, getting a Bear card, confusingly pausing the game to go grocery shopping and watching someone devour a cinnamon bun)
(That would be 10/10 experience come on)
Also Beepups Uno reverse card
Because every card game should have an uno reverse card
Hehe loök at littol guys walking in circles ✨
Stargazer card would have an additional star shaped cards, that you can take an reveal the most ⭐️helpful and game changing⭐️ advice, stars know best after all ☝️
Oh and
If anyone of ya’ll has a Hivesona and would like an Action card design lemme know, the ask box is right there 🫵
Can’t promise to draw it right away (might need a lil break), but I think it could be a fun way to interact with the crew :D
(if u want a card, write the name of the card + action your card would have + ref if u have it/your sona changed)
Hope you enjoyed your non-canon card deck tour 🪄
See you somewhere around the orbit 👋🪐
*fancy small bear creatüre bow*
