This repo features the pipeline for generation of all cards for the board game B2B AI Dating SaaS, and the consequent package of those cards into atlases fit to use in Tabletop Simulator.

yarn install

The card generators require fonts to be placed in the fonts/ directory. Download these three font files:

mkdir -p fonts
cd fonts

# Noto Sans (for body text)
wget "https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/raw/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Regular.ttf"
wget "https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/raw/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Bold.ttf"

# Noto Color Emoji (for emoji rendering - REQUIRED)
wget "https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/raw/main/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf"

cd ..

Note: The NotoColorEmoji.ttf font is essential for proper emoji rendering (🅰️, 🚀, etc.). Without it, emojis will appear as boxes with Unicode codes.

yarn generate

The generate script now runs the entire pipeline twice: first with the English copy (the Text column) into outputs/, then again using the RU Text column into outputs_ru/. Both trees share the same subfolder structure (features, abilities, print, etc.), so you can keep localized assets side by side. Titles remain unchanged; only the primary body copy swaps to its RU counterpart.

To build a single locale manually you can run the shared asset chain with custom environment variables, e.g.:

OUTPUT_ROOT=outputs_ru LOCALE=ru yarn generate:assets

Every locale pass copies its atlases and misc assets into public/atlases/<locale> and public/misc/<locale> respectively. The Next.js app surfaces these folders through the locale switcher at the top of the page.

When needed, you can run the generators individually:

yarn generate:abilities
yarn generate:features
yarn generate:milestones
yarn generate:roles
yarn generate:misc
yarn generate:tickets
yarn generate:problems
yarn generate:blanks
yarn generate:atlases
yarn generate:print
yarn generate-print

yarn generate:print arranges every card face together with the correct back on portrait A4 sheets inside outputs/print. Each sheet is exported as a PNG pair (sheet-XXX-front/back.png), and the full set is bundled into outputs/print/bas-double-sided-cards-<locale>.pdf in front/back order. Print double-sided with "flip on long edge" to keep the backs aligned after cutting.

Use yarn generate-print to render both locales back-to-back; it runs the same print compiler for outputs/ (English) and outputs_ru/ (Russian), emitting PDFs with -en / -ru suffixes respectively.

When the RU locale runs, the same layout logic places its sheets inside outputs_ru/print while still referencing the localized copy from RU Text.

• Feature & ability cards now carry the Player Deck back and print at roughly 85×85 mm.
• Ticket & problem cards stay on the Work Deck back but print at ~78×78 mm so they remain slightly smaller than feature cards (the colored edge stays visible when stacked).
• Role cards expand to about 75×100 mm to give them a more premium footprint.
• The blank template generator (yarn generate:blanks) creates one "empty" version of each card type without title/text. The print compiler uses these files to pad every sheet to a full grid and also adds one extra all-empty sheet per card family (see EXTRA_EMPTY_SHEETS in scripts/compilePrintSheets.js). Use the spare cards to hand-write quick prototypes or replacements when playtesting.