Design a deck or table.

Quick start

1. Download the template pack ZIP (~95 KB)
2. Paint over the blanks in your tool of choice (Figma, Photoshop, Procreate, Affinity, anything)
3. Export back to PNG at the same dimensions
4. Email the files to [email protected]
5. If we accept it, you get credited in the app + on the website's About page

What a "skin" actually is

A deck skin is a visual theme for the cards. It's made of three images:

• Number card background — the canvas behind every 1–12 card. The game overlays the number on top, so leave the center and corners clean.
• Wild card face — the entire wild card design, including the "S" mark. This image is shown as-is with no overlay.
• Card back — the design shown when a card is face-down. Also shown as-is.

A table skin is a single image: the surface the cards sit on. It's shown full-screen behind the entire game.

Specs

• Format: PNG, RGBA, sRGB color space
• Card aspect: 2.5 × 3.5 (standard poker)
• Card corner radius: ~56 px (rounded automatically by the app — you don't need to draw it, but anything in the four corners outside ~50 px will be clipped)
• File size budget: ≤ 500 KB per card image, ≤ 1.5 MB per table image. Bigger is OK; bundle bloats linearly per skin
• Slug: short, lowercase, no spaces — `gilded`, `crimson`, `obsidian`, `arcade`, etc. All four files for one skin share the same slug

Design guidance

• Number card backgrounds need to read at small sizes — cards in the player's hand are ~56 pt wide, so background detail finer than ~5 px tends to mush. Bold shapes and clear color blocks survive better than fine texture.
• Numbers need contrast. The app picks one color per number value (1–12) from the skin's palette, on top of your background. If your background is light, the app's default palette works; if it's dark, the skin needs a different palette — talk to us about that.
• The "S" wild card is iconic. It's the most-noticed card in the game. Make it look special — gradients, glow, distinctive shape. Players treat wilds as currency.
• Card backs are seen a lot — stacks of face-down cards. Repeating pattern is safe; intricate central icon is fine; anything reading as "blue 7" on the back is bad.
• Table backgrounds set the mood. Skip-Bo's vibe is "kitchen table, friendly competition". Avoid clutter; this is wallpaper, not a focal point.

Existing skins for reference

The game currently ships with these procedural skins (color + typography variations, no bitmap art):

• Decks: Modern, Classic, Neon, Gold Leaf, Midnight, Kraft Paper, Mint, Monochrome
• Tables: Green felt, Oak wood, Mahogany, Navy felt, Charcoal, Rose felt, Emerald felt, Ocean blue, Sandalwood

Bitmap-based skins from artists slot in alongside these and use the same store pricing (200 coins each).

Submission terms

• License: we need a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to bundle your work in the app. Pick one: CC0 (you waive copyright entirely — easiest), or asset transfer (you grant us exclusive rights). We won't accept CC-BY or anything with attribution requirements beyond a credits line.
• Original work only. Don't trace, paint over, or AI-generate-from-prompts that include other artists' names. We'll politely decline derivative work.
• Compensation: selected skins enter the in-game store. If we put your work behind an optional in-app purchase, you earn a revenue share — we'll agree the split in writing before publishing. Free-tier skins (coin-only unlock) credit you in the app + on the About page with a portfolio link, but no royalty.
• What we want to see in your email: the files, a one-line description of the vibe ("dark academia", "80s arcade", etc.), your name/handle as you'd want it credited, and the license choice.

Downloads

Questions?

Email [email protected] — happy to look at a concept before you commit to a full pack.