Hughesss Publishing Kit — Edition 01
Ready to
print, pitch,
and play.
Print spec, brand system, packaging, and the numbers — everything needed to take Stress Busters from screen to table.
01 / The Game
Match the panic.
Find the rescue.
Stress Busters is a matching card game about everyday chaos and the wildly impractical ways we cope with it. Fast to learn, satisfying to play.
3–6 players · 20 minutes · Fits in a pocket.
"The Reply-All Demon." "Calendar Hydra." You know these creatures personally.
Everyone plays their rescue card face-down, then reveals. The wilder the better. Write your own on a blank card.
The Stress-holder picks the most satisfying match. Most pairs wins. No correct answers.
02 / Card designs
Cover, game card, card back, and write-in card — 70 × 120 mm.
STRESS
BUSTERS!
Email
Exterminator
Lost Key
Kraken
Oratory
Owl
Every face runs edge-to-edge · 24 illustrated cards + 1 write-in card in every set
03 / Print spec
Simple materials.
Strong point of view.
Optimised for short-run prototype quantities of 25–500 units. Confirmed for offset and digital print.
04 / Packaging
One tuck box. No visual noise.
05 / Brand system
Mark, type, and palette.
Hughesss — Primary mark
Stress Busters!
Bold display · playful utility
System sans-serif keeps the world clean while the illustrations do the shouting.
System sans-serif · Body
Web palette
06 / Launch numbers
Prototype-run assumptions — verify before ordering.
Five 25-card decks, 70 × 120 mm, CMYK laminated stock and tuck boxes.
Unit cost before freight. Drops sharply at volume.
Leaves healthy margin with $5 per deck to Friends of the Koala.
Vercel Hobby free at launch. Upgrade when the shop needs it.
$5 per deck
to the koalas.
Every deck sold puts $5 toward the rescue and care work of Friends of the Koala in northern NSW.
Friends of the Koala ↗