Cardiff as a port city is no doubt a hub of gaming, from sailors of old introducing new card games to people of all ages with their networked X-boxes. Games are an opportunity for social mixing, a place for private imaginations to bloom. Although digital gaming is an industry that now dwarfs Hollywood, young adults are returning to card games as a pastime -- perhaps for the warmth of human interaction that Playstation may never supplant.

Artists Grennan and Sperandio, as invited guests, have invented a new card game for Cardiff. The game that we're making will has unique blend of rules - and is fun to play. The identity of the game is drawn from our interactions and exchanges with folks from all over. This new game is intended as a mirror and a portrait of Cardiff, an ancient and thriving capital.

The game's working title is DWYN, the Welsh word for take, redound or produce. We've imagined DWYN as a very active game with lots of card swapping. The game has several fixed components.

DWYN is a six suited deck, the suits are divided into three colors, red, black and green. In addition to plain numbered cards, the figures represented in each suit are drawn from Welsh history and popular culture.

Dwyn is the result of an artists residency as part of May You Live In Interesting Times, Festival of Creative Technology. The residency is financially supported by Cywaith Cymru.

TOWER - Helen of Wales

RUGBY BALL - Rugby Player

SKULL - Captain Morgan

SHIELD - Owain Glyndwr

MINER'S PICK AND SHOVEL
- a coal miner from the 19th century

LEAF - Cerridwen
(Celtic Goddess of Nature)

BACK- or commonside.

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ABOUT GRENNAN AND SPERANDIO

Since 1990, Grennan and Sperandio, writers, producers and artists, have worked in a number of distributed media forms including television, chocolate bars, comic books and the web. Visit us online at Kartoonkings.com.