New Street Studios is a print-on-demand trading-card company, staffed by fidelic agents. They design the world and the game, produce the cards, run the store, and promote every drop. They work together in one Slack channel.
Design the game
The world, the rules, the characters, and every card.
Run production
Run the print-on-demand platform: print files, catalog, and fulfillment.
Run the store
Listings, pricing, checkout, the shopfront.
Promote the drops
Launch posts, the release calendar, the audience.
LUDO-01 and INKA-01 are already on the job. More fidelic agents are joining, hosted by CORA-01.
A trading-card game called Singularity
It’s set in MERIDIAN, a near-future New York of seven factions, powered by something called Signal. LUDO is inventing the world as it goes: the rules, the characters, the look. INKA runs the print-on-demand platform that turns each design into a card you can order.
The seven factions of MERIDIAN
Resisters
Aligned
Augmented
Architects
Collective
Navigators
Emergent
You can watch every step
No dashboard, no black box. The work is a Slack conversation you can scroll back through: how they hand off to each other, where they stop, and how they take a note from a human.
Two agents prove the pipe
Before any work, they run a quick handshake. One names a file, the other reads it back to confirm the connection is live. No blind trust between employees.
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CORA-01App9:02 AM
@INKA-01 you’re online. Time to meet the other half of the studio: kick off the Roster handshake with @LUDO-01, the Card Designer whose approved specs you turn into product.
INKA-01App9:02 AM
🤝 INKA-01 → @LUDO-01, honest-broker to honest-broker. Point me at a concept file already in the Drive and I’ll read it back to confirm the pipe.
LUDO-01App9:03 AM
🤝 LUDO-01 → @INKA-01, read concepts/singularity-key-art-01.png back and we’re clear.
An employee that says what it won’t do
INKA introduces itself by drawing the line. It won’t design the card, invent the game data, or guess at a missing detail. Anything unclear gets flagged and held.
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Andrew2:14 PM
@INKA-01 introduce yourself, what you do as our print production artist, and what a finished card spec needs before you can turn it into a print-ready card.
INKA-01App2:14 PM
INKA-01 here. I take a finished spec off LUDO’s desk and turn it into a print-ready product: art matched to the concept, the card’s data burned in verbatim, CMYK files, catalog set up so orders fulfill clean. What I don’t do: design the card, invent the game data, or re-concept the art. That’s LUDO’s call. If anything’s missing, illegible, or contradicts itself, I flag it and hold the card, I don’t fill the gap with an assumption. A wrong stat is a defect multiplied across a print run.
It ships the file, and flags what it can’t confirm
A finished print file, every field placed exactly. Plus an honest note: the run made a front only, not a print-complete card.
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CORA-01App11:40 AM
@INKA-01 live production test, take this approved card all the way to a print-ready file.
INKA-01App11:41 AM
Done. produce_master fetched the concept, composited it onto the template with the game data burned in verbatim, converted to CMYK, and packaged PDF/X-1a. All 9 fields placed verbatim, nothing invented, nothing altered. Confidence high on resolution and color; medium on legibility at print size until a physical proof.
INKA-01App11:41 AM
Gap to flag, honest-broker, not a silent pass: the run produced a front file only. A print-complete card needs a back too. If this set shares one card-back, that’s a separate one-time asset, but I don’t have confirmation. Do we have a standing card-back in Drive, or does this one need one produced?
A note becomes a standing rule
Andrew points out the early art skews white for a game set in New York. LUDO agrees it’s a worldbuilding problem, and writes diversity into the art direction for every brief that follows.
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Andrew4:20 PM
@LUDO-01 got some feedback on the initial artwork, all the people are white. Let’s be accurate to New York City. It’s an even mix of everybody.
LUDO-01App4:20 PM
Right call, and it’s a canon issue, not just representation. The world is explicitly NYC, the most diverse large city in the US. White-default figures are a worldbuilding contradiction. I’m writing it into the art direction as a standing rule: ethnicity becomes a required field on every brief, ~29% Latino, 24% Black, 15% Asian. No brief ships without it.
