Artist's Collectible Trading Cards: Bill Ritchie's CTC - 1995-2016

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In part I Bill catalogued the artist’s trading cards he made from the late 1990s to 2015. They took a variety of forms, styles, and materials - one set actually being made of etched copper plates intended to be printed on an etching press.In Part II, the the author offers ten easy games to help the novice get into the swing of card games of the kind that underlie many TCGs. Neither a player nor collector himself, he got the book, Collectible Trading Card Games for Dummies and went to work copying-over ten simple games. In this way he hoped to invent one of his own. By learning the game mechanics of those simple games - which are on the market already - he thought he could arrive at an original artist’s collectible trading card game.Bill Ritchie thinks of himself as a failed art professor, despite that his nineteen years’ teaching at the University of Washington appears to be anything but a failure. That’s because he risked all to teach - and lost. Be that as it may, his game is not over. He still wants to achieve something great in his teaching, for in his mind, teaching has an even greater importance to humanity than art or games. The three may be complementary – effective teaching may be an interactive triad, but without the discipline of teachers,’ artists’ and gamers’ contributions, their importance is at risk.As an educated population is the secret of successful democracy, and as mechanization has taken command of so much of civilization, it may be that playing games is a better way to learn and teach than has been understood. Artist’s collectible trading card games was a worthwhile exploration, and this book is a document of a process that Bill is continuing and describing in his own words.