Back to collectionAs BTC Nears $40,000, a Café Question Reaches the Studio
The studio had just approved dark-toned card sketches and still needed to make sure players could read the cards clearly. As BTC approached $40,000, even the owner of the café downstairs asked how to buy cryptocurrency. The owner’s question did not bring the game a new player, but it gave the team another way to think about questions from people outside the studio.
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The studio had just approved dark-toned card sketches and still needed to make sure players could read the cards clearly. Meanwhile, excitement about cryptocurrency had moved from screens into everyday conversation, making it hard for the team to ignore the mood outside.
As BTC approached $40,000, even the owner of the café downstairs asked how to buy cryptocurrency. The person collecting coffee did not present the studio’s card game as a way to buy it; they simply asked what the owner wanted to understand. Back upstairs, the exchange prompted a reminder: newcomers often ask about the most visible thing first, without knowing which basic explanations they still need.
The owner’s question did not bring the game a new player, but it gave the team another way to think about questions from people outside the studio. In their next discussion of card presentation, they planned to try explaining what a card does in words someone who had missed every design meeting could understand. Whether the later sketches would achieve that remained open.