Prop Trumps
01 · Overview Trading, gamified into trump cards
What if traders became collectible trump cards? Prop Trumps is a self-initiated concept game where trading performance turns into playable characters with stats, leaderboards, a marketplace and buy challenges.
02 · Why it exists Pure initiative
No client, no brief. Prop Trumps exists to show creative range beyond client work: a complete product world, from brand tone to final screens, designed end to end.
03 · The world Cyberpunk neon,
dark UI
A neon-lit visual language carries the whole experience: glowing CTAs, dark surfaces, and character cards with real personality.
04 · The screens What is drifting
on the right
- Homepage: the pitch, the cards and the world in one scroll.
- Leaderboards: trader rankings turned into league tables.
- Marketplace: collect, compare and trade characters.
- Buy challenge: the funnel where players enter the game.
- Card details: Medusa FX, Crypto Chick and Prop Spider close-ups.
05 · Conclusion No brief,
on purpose
There was no client here and no brief, which is the whole point. The rest of this site shows how I design inside constraints: a compliance flow, a partner funnel, a system built to survive ten rebrands. This one shows what I reach for when there are none. I set the brief myself and kept all of it, from concept and brand tone through art direction to the final screens.
The idea came before the interface. Trading performance as collectible trump cards, with real stats behind every character, then built outward from that world rather than inward from a layout. A neon-lit visual language sets the register, and underneath it the thing behaves like a product: leaderboards work as league tables, the marketplace is built for collecting and comparing, and buy challenge is a genuine conversion funnel wearing a game's clothes. Medusa FX, Crypto Chick and Prop Spider each carry a full-bleed detail page with stats, pricing and superpowers.
What it demonstrates is range. The same person who systemized a broker back office can also set a tone, art-direct a cast of characters and hold one coherent world across a homepage, a marketplace and a card detail page. It is the least constrained work here, and the quickest way to see how I think when the direction is mine to set.