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==Dvorak==
[[Image:Get_a_pen.gif|Dvorak - Get a pen and draw a card.|right]]


Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank; players choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, then add further cards to the game as the game progresses. It provides you with enough rules to start a game, but leaves the theme and the depth up to you.
==Welcome to Dvorak==


You can use it as a skeleton for making a solid and standalone card game, you can play it as an experimental or cut-throat Nomic, you can use it to kill half an hour drawing silly pictures and forcing your friends to make drinks, you can throw together an amusing card game based on your favourite film or sport or in-joke - it's blank cardboard, it's fairly multipurpose.
Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank. Players choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, and start playing. If anyone has a good idea for a card during the game, it gets shuffled into the deck.


You can also play the games that other people have come up with, over the years - just pick something from the Deck Archive to print out and cut into a deck of cards, or play the game online.
You can use the Dvorak system as a skeleton for making a solid and standalone card game, you can play it as an experimental or cut-throat Nomic, you can use it to kill half an hour drawing pictures and forcing your friends to perform forfeits, you can throw together a card game based on your favourite film or sport or in-joke, or you can even build your own collectible card game from the ground up.


* [[Rules]] - English
You can also play the card games that other people have come up with over the years - just pick something from the [[:Category:Decks|deck archive]] to print out and cut into a deck of cards, or play the game online at [[DvorakMUSH]]. If you want to upload your own decks here, you can [[Signup|sign up to the wiki]].
* [[Pravidlá|Rules]] - Slovak
* [[Glossary]]
* [[:Category:Decks|List of all decks]]


==Deck Progress==
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! style="background:#e4181a; color:#fff; font-family:trebuchet ms,verdana,arial; border:#000 solid; border-width:1px 1px 0px 1px; width:160px" | '''The Game'''
! style="background:#e4181a; color:#fff; font-family:trebuchet ms,verdana,arial; border:#000 solid; border-width:1px 1px 0px 1px; width:160px" | '''Deck Archives'''
! style="background:#e4181a; color:#fff; font-family:trebuchet ms,verdana,arial; border:#000 solid; border-width:1px 1px 0px 1px; width:160px" | '''Highlighted Projects'''
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*[[Rules]] (English)
**[[Pravidlá|Rules]] (Slovak)
**[[Правила|Rules]] (Russian)
**[[Regeln|Rules]] (German)
**[[Règles|Rules]] (French)
**[[Zasady|Rules]] (Polish)
*[[DvorakMUSH]]
*[[Glossary]]
*[[Links]]
*[[Upcoming games]]
*[http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dvorak-list/ The Mailing List]
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*[[:Category:Playable decks|Playable decks]]
*[[:Category:Nomic decks|Nomic decks]]
*[[:Category:Untested decks|Untested decks]]
*[[:Category:Unfinished decks|Unfinished decks]]
*[[:Category:CCG sets|CCG sets]]
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*[[Infinite Dvorak deck|The Infinite Dvorak deck]] - Seventeen years, 10,000 cards and counting...
|}


This is a list of all the decks stored on the old Dvorak site - red links are decks that haven't been recreated on the wiki yet, blue links are the ones that have. The bracketed "link" points to the original version of each deck.
<div style="float:right; font-size:0.8em">'''Dvorak''' was invented in August 2000 by [http://kevan.org Kevan Davis], with creative input from [https://twitter.com/benhimself Ben Wray].</div>
 
[[All Your Base deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?allyourbase link])
[[Arcade Game deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?arcadenew link])
[[Better Mousetrap deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mousetrap link])
[[Candy Land deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?candyland link])
[[Chess Plus deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?chess link])
[[Comic Publishing deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?comic link])
[[Cube deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?cube link])
[[Day of the Triffids deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?triffid link])
[[French-Fry! deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?fries link])
[[Eye of Frog deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?frog link])
[[First-Person Shooter deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?fps link])
[[Frankenstein deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?frankenstein link])
[[Jabberwocky deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?jabberwock link])
[[Kryptopol deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?kryptopol link])
[[Mediaeval Warfare deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mediaeval link])
[[Mediaeval Warfare deck (Slovak)]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mediaeval_sk link])
[[Monkey Tennis deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?monkeytennis link])
[[Mornington Crescent deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mornington link])
[[Mornington Crescent II deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mornington2 link])
[[Paranoia deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?paranoia link])
[[Rat Trap deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?rattrap link])
[[Robot Wars deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?robot link])
[[Roman Politics deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?roman link])
[[Roman Politics deck (Slovak)]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?roman_sk link])
[[Shaft of Light deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?shaftoflight link])
[[Shopping deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?shopping link])
[[Tabloid Headline deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?tabloid link])
[[Time Cube deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?timecube link])
[[Time Machine deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?time link])
[[The World deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?theworld link])
[[World Domination deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?world link])
[[Archaeology Team deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?archaeology link])
[[Artificing deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?artifice link])
[[Author, Author deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?author link])
[[Blake's 7 (Blake) deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?blake1 link])
[[Blake's 7 (Federation) deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?blake2 link])
[[Blog deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?blog link])
[[Browser Wars deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?browser link])
[[Chess Plus Plus deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?chesspp link])
[[Chu-Chu Rocket deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?chuchu link])
[[Class Struggle deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?class link])
[[Copyright Fight deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?copyrightfight link])
[[Darts deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?darts link])
[[Devouring Horrors deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?horrors link])
[[Florida Vacations deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?florida link])
[[Football deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?football link])
[[Intergalactic Fighting Tournament deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?ift link])
[[Ladies' Man deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?ladies link])
[[Master of Orion deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?orion link])
[[Mad Scientist deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?madsci link])
[[Magical Girl Battle Tournament deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?mgbt link])
[[Monkeytown deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?monkeytown link])
[[NetHack deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?nethack link])
[[New Age Pseudoscience deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?newage link])
[[Popstars deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?popstars link])
[[Popularity Contest deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?popularity link])
[[Programming deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?programming link])
[[Pursue the Cup! deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?cup link])
[[Quidditch v2 deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?quidditch2 link])
[[Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?pile link])
[[Sketchbattle deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?sketchbattle link])
[[Space Pirates deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?spacepirate link])
[[Star Quest deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?space link])
[[Supervillains deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?villain link])
[[Sysadmin deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?sysadmin link])
[[Teeth deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?teeth link])
[[Vampire Cliché deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?vampire link])
[[The Weed Game deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?weed link])
[[Witchcraft deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?witchcraft link])
[[Mr. Hershey deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?hershey link])
[[Pseudozen Revolution deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?pseudozen link])
[[Turner Prize deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?xxturner link])
[[When Kittens Attack deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?kittens link])
[[Am I Hot Or Not? deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?hotornot link])
[[Exquisite Corpse deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?corpse link])
[[Formula One deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?f1 link])
[[Gostak deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?gostak link])
[[The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy CCG deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?hhgccg link])
[[The Vogon Question deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?hhgvogon link])
[[Sirius Cybernetics deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?hhgrobot link])
[[Might of the Boodles deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?motb link])
[[Poker deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?poker link])
[[School Chemistry Lesson deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?chemistry link])
[[Summerdaze deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?summerdaze link])
[[Superheroes deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?superhero link])
[[Tarot deck]] ([http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist.cgi?tarot link])
 
==The Dvorak Wiki==
 
In an attempt to bring Dvorak properly into the 21st century, we're going to try moving everything (including deck lists) to a publicly-editable wiki, to see what happens. If and when it's in a fit state to replace the main site, we'll shift and redirect everything.
 
As with the game itself, we're making this up as we go along - feel free to pitch in with suggestions, advice or boring old legwork, in this uncertain time.
 
You can check [[Special:RecentChanges]] to see what's going on. I've arbitrarily picked the [http://dvorakgame.co.uk/cardlist?timecube Time Cube deck] as a test case - there's a page for it here at "[[Time Cube deck]]", and it's using a tentative "card" template (editable at [[Template:Card]]). Please help to improve the templates and page design, if you have any ideas or CSS/MediaWiki wizardry skills.

Latest revision as of 09:38, 1 March 2024

Dvorak - Get a pen and draw a card.

Welcome to Dvorak

Dvorak is a card game where all of the cards start out blank. Players choose a theme, make up enough cards to get started, shuffle and deal, and start playing. If anyone has a good idea for a card during the game, it gets shuffled into the deck.

You can use the Dvorak system as a skeleton for making a solid and standalone card game, you can play it as an experimental or cut-throat Nomic, you can use it to kill half an hour drawing pictures and forcing your friends to perform forfeits, you can throw together a card game based on your favourite film or sport or in-joke, or you can even build your own collectible card game from the ground up.

You can also play the card games that other people have come up with over the years - just pick something from the deck archive to print out and cut into a deck of cards, or play the game online at DvorakMUSH. If you want to upload your own decks here, you can sign up to the wiki.

The Game Deck Archives Highlighted Projects
Dvorak was invented in August 2000 by Kevan Davis, with creative input from Ben Wray.