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-# Card Game Playfield
+# Deck Generator/Playfield
 
-Coming soon...
+This project has two major parts: a deck generator, and a virtual
+playfield. The purpose is to allow for creating and playing custom
+decks in a physical card game, or generation of decks for use in
+Tabletop Simulator. Currently, there is support for [Sentinels of the
+Multiverse](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102652/sentinels-multiverse)
+(SotM), a co-op fixed-deck card game based on super heros, though
+other templates could be added relatively easily.
+
+
+## Deck Generator
+
+Supports generating custom hero, villain, and environment decks for
+SotM. Currently based on uploading JSON input files, though minimal
+editing in the browser has also been implemented.
+
+**Requires installation of fonts on local computer, as they cannot be
+distributed due to their license**
+
+  * ~~SC logo = [Detectives, Inc](http://www.blambot.com/font_detectivesinc.shtml)~~
+      * not actually needed, as the glyphs are baked in
+  * Hero/Villain HP & Villain Names = [Armor Piercing](http://www.blambot.com/font_armorpiercing.shtml)
+  * Card Headers & HP = [Crash Landing](http://www.blambot.com/font_crashlanding.shtml)
+  * Card Text = [Red State Blue State](http://www.blambot.com/font_rsbs.shtml)
+
+Templates are based on those from BoardGameGeek user Koga, found here:
+https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/813176/card-templates/, but have been
+converted to SVG and rather heavily modified/cleaned up.
+
+## Playfield
+
+Can load decks created by the generator. In theory, can play any deck
+from Tabletop Simulator, with minor effort (it needs to be pointed at
+the right part of the JSON). This allows for playing many offcial and
+unoffical (such as 
+[The Cauldron](http://tangent.meromorph.com/cauldron/), a popular fan
+expansion) decks.
+
+
+### Controls:
+
+Best on a touch screen, but works okay with a mouse.
+
+  * primary controls are dragging, tapping, long pressing, and double
+    tapping
+  * you can drag into and out of decks, which takes/puts cards from
+    the top of the deck
+      * hold shift while dragging into a deck to put a card on the bottom
+  * long press on a deck to open a listing, where you can search,
+    rearrange, and tap to add to playfield
+
+## Libraries
+
+  * The backend uses PhantomJS for rendering decks
+  * The playfield uses interact.js
+
+## To do:
+
+There are a lot of things still to be done here, including:
+
+  * Making it look prettier
+  * finishing the editor
+  * adding a context menu to the playfield
+  * adding some sort of tutorial or help to the playfield