DriveThru Cards

Drive-Thru Cards is a print-on-demand game company who allows others to use their services to provide low-demand releases. Button Murderers was an exclusive one-year Drive Thru Cards release. Currently, Soldiers, Brom, Vampyres, Samurai, and a few fan-submitted sets of Brawl(including yet another same-recipe 'Rare'), ZOECon (Journey Quest), the Pokethulhu from Yoyodyne, Free Radicals, Chicago Crew, and a few rares not reprinted in Button Men Originals are also available.

## DTC Custom Button Men card maker

The site also has a custom printing application that allows custom artwork and semi-customized stats. The dropdown lists can also have letters and/or numbers typed into them (so you may have d2s easily), but the only special dice available are Shadow, Poison, and Speed Dice. With some cleverness, Option (#/#), Turbo-Swings (#**!**), Trip (**-**#**-)**, or Maximum (**|**#**|)** dice are also possible.

A more common solution to the limited amount of options available is to create a picture with the dice frames already on the image, typically at the right side of the image. (at least 20 pixels away from the top, 30 pixels away from the right edge, and 80 from the bottom edge).

For best results when placing dice frames, leave at least 150 pixels at the top for the name, the only required text field. Flavor text is optional, and using paragraphs can allow for text positioned at the bottom on the frame. Dice frames placed via the maker program are also optional.

Remember, the ideal image is 725 pixels X 935 pixels, a .jpg file, in CMYK color and less than five Megabytes in size. Non-CMYK images submitted may appear darker than expected.

For authentic fonts, after entering the desired stats, right click on the entry and choose 'save image as.' This allows swing dice and all desired dice sizes to have the same font. The font is suspected to be Alte Hass Grotesk Bold, but this has not been confirmed by Cheapass Games.

To make the name of the card 'invisible,' you can use the automatic shrinking of text for the name box. Post a page worth of periods with no spaces after the name of the card (The name it should show up as in the DTC store). Then post after the name but before the large amount of periods a similarly large amount of spaces. This will cause the name to show, but not the periods after it (see "Cheese Weasel" at DTC for an example of having too few spaces).

The flavor text box can also be manipulated. Putting paragraphs between the text and the top of the box will move the text downwards, even into the border of the card. Placing enough paragraphs after the text you want on the card allows you to add a description to your card that is not printed on the card. By putting a row of periods with no spaces in the off-the-card space or other no-space text, you can also change the font size of the descriptive text. When 'finalizing' your card, make sure to look at where the text is positioned; it will be different than the large preview and may require you to remove one or two pre-text paragraphs to get the text in the spot you desire. Note that any text in the border that is lower than the 'ButtonMen' logo is likely to be cut off when printed.