You'll find the cards are more just an aside, adding to the story of the game rather than driving it. It's played in a community fashion, so progress is made in many ways, such as contact with the characters, but also often drives itself as the characters go about their lives and react to situations.
The cards are mainly just for the fun of solving and to get points on the leaderboard (which has no real influence on the story or game). The description in the article really can't do the game justice, come on over to #syzygy on irc.chat-solutions.org if you want to learn any more (Just tell 'em Six sent you). They always love new people in there.
The thing is the cards are pretty much separate from the narrative and game, people just buy them for the fun of solving the puzzles themselves, plus they are pretty damn cool too (there's a leaderboard too as well). I've only bought about 2 sets of packs myself (and won a few) and have been playing/following the story for over a year now.
Feel free to come on over to Unfiction, we love getting new people and there are a whole lot of resources for new players. Also, the irc room #syzygy on irc.chat-solutions.org normally has plenty of people in there who'd be happy to answer any question you might have.
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You'll find the cards are more just an aside, adding to the story of the game rather than driving it. It's played in a community fashion, so progress is made in many ways, such as contact with the characters, but also often drives itself as the characters go about their lives and react to situations.
The cards are mainly just for the fun of solving and to get points on the leaderboard (which has no real influence on the story or game). The description in the article really can't do the game justice, come on over to #syzygy on irc.chat-solutions.org if you want to learn any more (Just tell 'em Six sent you). They always love new people in there.
The thing is the cards are pretty much separate from the narrative and game, people just buy them for the fun of solving the puzzles themselves, plus they are pretty damn cool too (there's a leaderboard too as well). I've only bought about 2 sets of packs myself (and won a few) and have been playing/following the story for over a year now.
Feel free to come on over to Unfiction, we love getting new people and there are a whole lot of resources for new players. Also, the irc room #syzygy on irc.chat-solutions.org normally has plenty of people in there who'd be happy to answer any question you might have.
Try this list of ingame sites for starters: http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=We bsites
One of those is the newspaper site ( http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/ ) that has been updating for over a year now. Perplex City really does quite a job is creating it's own reality.