We tracked down Patrick Rothfuss for an interview about his collaborative The Name of the Wind Playing Cards Kickstarter project. In this thirty-four minute interview, Pat answers a few questions and shares his Kickstarter experience.
For those of you scratching your heads, go on over to the Kickstarter project page to see exactly what this is all about. Or, keep reading for our last minute break down of the project, followed by the interview.
The Project
Patrick Rothfuss teamed up with the artists of Albino Dragon to create a The Name of the Wind playing card deck. You can watch Pat and Albino Dragon design the chosen characters on Albino Dragon’s Youtube channel. The artwork and creative process is simply amazing. You can also see the Kvothe, Devi, Laurien, and Deoch and Stanchion cards, and a couple others, about halfway down the Kickstarter page.
Ace, king, queen, and jack respectively, the characters (and objects) included in the deck are as follows:
Spades: Folly, Kote, Denna, Bast
Hearts: Talent Pipes, Deoch & Stanchion, Fela, Simmon
Clubs: Lute, Arliden, Laurien, Young Kvothe
Diamonds: Ever-burning Lamp, Kilvin, Devi, Ambrose
Jokers: Elodin, Auri
The project has already gone over a whopping $500,000, which means, that beyond evidence of the fact that Pat crushes everything, a ton of money is going to be donated to Heifer International via the thoroughly awesome Worldbuilders charity.
The Kickstarter will end and be successfully 5,093% funded tomorrow (Thursday June 13th) at 9:00pm EDT.
Head over to the Kickstarter page and become a backer while you still can!
And now on to the interview!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmthmlVJ74
