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Drupal the card game, 3rd edition

CEO, Co-Founder
Jul 31, 2010

We really liked the concept of the Drupal card game pioneered by NodeOne. It is a great starting point for coaches to teach teams the value of collaboration. If you make an external reward system (e.g. winning team gets a bag of sweets) and you let teams play a couple of games, you can make a meta-game in which teams can experience the difference between different playing styles (and therefore the value of collaboration).

For the Donation+ fundraising we wanted to give something back to our donors that would speak to their Drupal geekpride and that would be fun. We talked with Rustan Håkansson, the developer of the Drupal card game, who warned us that it is difficult to fine tune the rules of a game and that it is especially hard to come up with a game that will actually be enjoyable. Since the Drupal card game is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license, we decided to make a reprint of the NodeOne card game. Since we wanted to give something that would be unique and not a copy of something other people already had we decided to go all out and make individual illustrations for each of the different cards in the game. Our colleague Gergely Kurucz is working on a deck of cards that will have illustrations as awesome as the ones you can see in the illustration. Practical:

  • From the 2nd-26th of August we'll hold the "Most awesome Drupal 6 sites award" a community award of which we'll announce the winner at Drupalcon Copenhagen. The top 20 most popular sites will get a card in the 3nd edition of the Drupal card game. But more about that later.
  • If you've been paying attention you might have noticed that we skipped from the 1st straight to the 3rd edition. If you want to get your hands on the 2nd edition of the card game you'll have to attend Drupalcon Copenhagen, and keep an eye on the NodeOne people.
  • You can get a hard copy of the third edition of the game, if you make a donation, your contribution will help us build a more awesome documentation system for our community. We'll print the 3rd edition in the beginning of October after we close the Documentation+ fundraising round.
  • If you don't want to miss out on the action or you want to get some sneak peaks of the game cards follow us on Twitter.

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.

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