dub3 card · www.eboy.com
eBoy (1998)
Tiny pixels stacked into giant isometric cities, crammed with robots, cars and shops.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
What it does
Ongoing: If this is your only card here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1998
The site of eBoy, a Berlin pixel art studio known for dense isometric cityscapes built from thousands of reusable parts.
Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital formed it in 1997, after posting pixel art online from 1996. The design critic Steven Heller compared them to Roy Lichtenstein, and their first big commission was an MTV game in 1998.
In 1998: Its first major commission this year was a Pac-Man-style game for MTV's Spring Break website.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
Net Art: Websites that are artworks, by people who saw the browser as a canvas.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1998 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want eBoy in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
