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Praystation (1998)
A designer's Flash experiments, with the source files given away for anyone to learn from.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 5
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- Net Art
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 5 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
Joshua Davis's site of Flash design experiments and code-driven animation, one of the first to offer its open-source Flash files for download.
Davis used it to show new work and experiments, and it won the 2001 Golden Nica for Net Excellence at Ars Electronica. Its second year was collected on a CD-ROM in a case styled after a PlayStation 2.
In 1998: Online by December as Davis's showcase for new design work and experiments.
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.
Put it on your site
Run Praystation, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1998. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1998, then plays a short scene. Want Praystation in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
