1KBWC

Earlier this year, a friend of mine introduced me to something called “The Game of a Thousand Blank White Cards” or 1KBWC for short. The story behind the game is fairly simple: someone mis-read the label on a box of index cards. The game itself can be pretty complex. All of the cards are hand-drawn by the players, and until the cards are created the game itself has no rules.

Naturally, this had some twisted appeal to us… We started creating cards at a fairly large convention and pretty soon we had a 300 some odd card deck. I’m the current guardian of the deck, mostly because I have a house to keep it in.

Recently, I’ve been learning about PHP and MySQL for a couple of projects at work. Eventually, we’re going to have a client-accessible database of text and images. In time, it will be all pretty and have search functions and multi-user authentication and all sorts of nifty things. In the meantime, I needed to learn how to put together something quick and dirty as a sort of proof-of-concept page… And I decided to use our 1KBWC database.

It’s here if you want to take a look at it. Just remember that the cards were created by a bunch of semi-sober gamers during a stressful convention, and the database itself is very much a work in progress.