Overview

Introduction to MakePlayingCards

MakePlayingCards.com (MPC) is a Hong Kong-headquartered company that "offers an online platform to create high quality, customised playing cards... at wholesale prices." Ordering cards through MPC uses an intuitive drag and drop GUI where the user uploads print-ready images for each card.

MPC is fantastic for cheaply printing playtest (proxy) cards for casual tabletop board game play. Cards printed with MPC are not counterfeits, as they're intentionally impossible to mistake for real cards — they don't have holo stamps, typically are labelled as not for sale, and have different cardbacks to real cards.

Some folks on Reddit and in other online communities share repositories with print-ready images for a variety of games, making it possible to print a huge variety of cards with no image editing skills.

The Purpose of MPC Autofill

Normally, ordering through MPC is fairly laborious. You have to collect the card images for everything in your order yourself, then manually upload each card, and drag and drop them into the correct slots.

Double-faced cards are also a headache. If you want to order 396 cards and 2 of them have two faces, you have to manually drag and drop your cardback to the other 394 card slots.

MPC Autofill is intended to streamline and automate this process as much as possible, which it does in the following ways:

• The web backend serves as an image aggregator. After it's been set up by an admin in your game's community, the server will continuously index all images uploaded to Google Drives connected to it. New Google Drives can be added to the server as necessary.
• The web frontend serves as a self-service project editor. Once pointed at your community's server, you can upload the list of cards they'd like to print into the site and utilise our fully-featured editor to pick your favourite artworks and fine-tune your project.
• The desktop tool automates the process of turning your MPC Autofill project into an order with MakePlayingCards.com. It does this by downloading your project's full-res images from Google Drive while controlling your browser and automating the drag and drop process.

Using MPC Autofill

1. Find the link to the MPC Autofill server for the game you'd like to print cards for.
2. Start by navigating to the MPC Autofill web frontend. Click the Configure Server button in the top-right and paste the link to your game's server.
3. Navigate to the project editor and upload the list of cards you'd like to print.
4. After the search results for your list have been populated, use the editor to select your favourite versions of each card.
5. When you're ready to place your order with MakePlayingCards, export your project as an XML file from the editor.
6. Download the latest release of the desktop tool from GitHub.
7. Follow the instructions here for how to use the desktop tool to place your order.