CAH Generator

A custom Cards Against Humanity generator specifically designed around having your cards professionally printed

Turbo Quick Start ⭐

Generating your own custom CAH deck:

Make sure all the cards you want to generate are up-to-date in the cards/deck_<#> folder
Run script/deck --deck=# (the number of the deck you want to generate)
Your deck zip will be placed in the decks/ folder

Creating a new deck

Need to create a new deck? No problem! Just run script/deck --create=# (the number of the deck you want to create)

From here you can now edit the .txt files in the cards/deck_<#> folder to add your own cards.

Editing Cards 📝

Here is some brief info on creating your own cards:

Edit one line at a time seperated by a new line in the cards/deck_#/ directory
black.txt controls the black cards to generate
white.txt controls the white cards to generate
info.txt controls meta data about the deck (e.g. the name of the deck, version, etc)

Usable double quotes: “”

Custom Card attributes

Here are a few quick custom card attributes that you can add to your cards:

{{1}} - Ads the custom_img_1 to a card
{{2}} - Ads the custom_img_2 to a card ... etc
[[gears]] - Ads the gears image to a card
[[2]] - Ads the draw 2 image to a card
[[3]] - Ads the draw 2 pick 3 image to a card

Note: to add a custom card image, drop the image file into the generators/single-card-output/custom_img/ folder

About `info.txt`

An example of the cards/info.txt looks like the content below:

name = Beans Against Humanity
short_name = BAH
version = 1
custom_img_1 = bean.png
custom_img_2 = bean.png
custom_img_3 = bean.png
custom_img_4 = bean.png
custom_img_5 = bean.png

In this case, the custom deck will have the following:

Beans Against Humanity as the name instead of Cards Against Humanity
BAH as the identifier instead of CAH
1 as the game deck version

Note: If you do not want to use the info file, set all the values to none in the text file like so:

none
none
none

Important: Make sure your info.txt files does not have an ending new line

Generating Cards ⚙️

Generate all cards as individual image files (aka generators/single-card-output/ code)

This is the ideal option for printing cards since many websites need you to individually upload each card that you want to print
```
script/deck --create=#
```

Note about the code

This code is unbelievably hacky, gross, and terrible.. but it works.

Original Documentation

Introduction

CAH Generator is a card generator for the game Cards Against Humanity, a party game for horrible people.

This generator enables you to:

Generate cards using various formats and styles (more information below).
Include your own CAH game. For example, if your game is a CAH fork called Ysabel Against Humanity, you can have your own watermark!
Include game version.
Automatic PICK and DRAW for black cards.
Special cards.

Use

You need to have Ruby installed, at least 2.5. Then you can, from your console:

ruby generator.rb

By default, a help message will be displayed. Follow the instructions for more.

Generator features

The generator works using three files:

white.txt, the white cards file.
black.txt, the black cards file.
info.txt, the game info file, where you can specify the name of your game and, optionally, the game version.

Info file

If the info file is available, the generator will introduce your game name in every card. Refer to the help text for more information on this file's format.

White and black cards

Each card must be in one line. Zero-length lines will be ignored, but lines containing spaces will be turned into blank cards.

Inserting ((_)) on any line will generate a special card, that has as icon the character _ (i.e., for warning cards, put ((!))).

The generator has PICK 2 and PICK 3 detection, but you can manually insert them by adding [[2]] or [[3]] at the beggining or the end of the line.

Card text can be formatted using HTML-like tags. The supported tags are:

 - bold text
 - italic text
 - underlined text
<strikethrough></strikethrough> - strikethrough text
 - subscript text
 - superscript text
  - line break
<color rgb=\"#0000ff\"></color> - set text color
 - set text font

Card sizes

You can specify different card sizes:

Large: cards of size 2.5" x 3.5"
Small: cards of size 2" x 2"

Credits

This project is a fork of Bigger, Blacker Cards. (kinda)

Disclaimer

This site is not affiliated with nor endorsed by Cards Against Humanity, LLC. Cards Against Humanity is a trademark of Cards Against Humanity LLC. Cards Against Humanity is distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 license - that means you can freely use and modify the game but aren't allowed to make money from it without the permission of Cards Against Humanity LLC.

Don't use this tool to infringe anyone's intellectual property. Do NOT just plug in the text for existing non-public card packs, that Cards Against Humanity, LLC is selling. That's just not cool. Instead, go to http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com, and buy their stuff. They made an awesome game, they deserve your money. This tool is for making your own cards, not theirs. That's why there's an option to make big 2.5"x3.5" cards -- that way you can print your own custom cards that are the same size as the official, purchased cards, so they can be used together.

GrantBirki/cah-generator