When you play online, you need to choose a persona, or “puppet,” to represent you at the card table. There are three types of puppets in 3D Deluxe card games.
These cartoon and photo-realistic puppets come with a full set of sounds and distinctive emotions.
If you visit CyberExtruder.com you can create a puppet that looks like you!
These add an exciting new dimension to online play. An iPuppet is a customizeable puppet whose name starts with ”iPuppet,” such as “iPuppet Gal” or “iPuppet Guy.”
When you choose one of the iPuppets, you’ll appear to the other players as a puppet with an empty framed space where the face should be. 3D Bridge Deluxe allows you to add any picture you want (from your digital camera, from the web, from a scan) to your “face,” and change it as often as you like during a game!
The Puppet Menu on the right edge of the chat area will show you either your current regular puppet or, if an iPuppet is selected, the current picture you’re showing to the other players sitting at the card table.
Clicking on the Puppet Menu button will bring up a menu that will let you choose a picture from a file, or paste one in from the clipboard. It also has options for switching to recently used pictures.
Here’s the simple, two-step process for using iPuppets in an online game with other people:
*Accepts .jpg and .bmp file types in Windows, and on Macintosh will accept .jpg, .bmp, .tiff, .pict and many others.
Frustrated by a lack of French-speaking robots in popular literature, television and film, the French government launched a multi-trillion franc program to develop a French solution. After much hard work and fanfare, they introduced Le Robot... to a cruel and uncaring world.
When not totally ignored, Le Robot was often referred to as “CheeseBot.” The French were infuriated, and with gouda reason.
Have you heard of a “Type A” personality? Well, Chelsea has a “Type AA” personality; it always helps to have a few drinks before talking to her. Calling her abrasive is like putting a belt-sander on your bagel and calling it “butter”&emdash;it doesn’t even come close. Am I being too subtle here? You should only play cards with this woman at your own risk. She distracts you with her banter, beats your pants off, and then laughs her head off.
The Giant may not play smart, but he’ll play dirty. (He once hid an entire family of card sharks up his left sleeve). He’s a nasty customer, so watch him closely. He’s ruthless and angry, and much bigger than you, so if he starts to look hungry, do whatever you can to minimize any physical resemblance you might have to a taco.
When a man in the Caracas airport calling himself “El Cuchillo” asked Hal to carry a Frosty the Snowman pi–ata for him on his flight home to New York, Hal was happy to oblige. Blessed with an innocent and trusting nature that very nearly flies into the airspace of the Nation of Moron, Hal has repeatedly, if unwittingly, gotten himself in trouble with the law. Hal is a proud graduate of Vassar College.
Horatio is a little overly concerned with the blousy-ness of his shirt and the grooming of his goatee. This is not to say that you should take him for granted, as he can also be a wily opponent. Horatio is not above distracting you at crucial moments with the shine from his head, if he thinks it will gain him an advantage.
Ian is a really nice guy. He is smart and pretty and really strong. When he plays darts, he is always the best, and in the morning when he makes toast, it’s always-golden brown (not burnt or too light so it’s just sort of warm bread like some people make). Ian is also the president of Freeverse Software and my boss.
Butcher of Song. From the liner notes of JARED’s Album: Touching Me, Touching You, Touching Me Again. While Central America has seen more than its share of atrocities in recent years, never before have lovely songs been brutalized as thoroughly as by the vocal stylings of JARED, the Head of Security at FREEVERSE SOFTWARE. Like an angry immigration officer, Jared’s distinctive renditions grab us, slap us around, threaten to cavity search us, and ultimately demand our passports be issued from that same circle of hell from which his voice originates. Never has the mating of cats sounded so melodic as after one has listened to El Carnicero de Canciones, the Butcher of Songs, as JARED was known in Guatemala.
Luckily, he also likes to play cards, which keeps him from singing for a brief time.
Jen is originally from New Orleans, which explains both her up-beat personality and the fact that she’s usually got a “go cup” with her. When not visiting art galleries, making documentaries, or dreaming about becoming a biker-chick, Jen likes to write bad country songs. Look for her latest, “You Said You Liked My Cookin’ But You’re A Jamba-liar!,” to hit the airwaves soon.
After a hard day of stock trading, Jeremy likes nothing better than to relax and socialize by playing a nice friendly game of cards. Or at least that’s what he tells himself. You see, Jeremy is hooked on adrenaline and cards are just another way for him to enjoy beating the odds. So for a tough game, and perhaps a killer tip on a new biotech startup, Jeremy’s your man.
Wealthy beyond words, ancient beyond memory, Jet is the Mysterious Master of Cards! (He is also pretty near incontinent, but that sort of spoils the picture.) Jet is more than happy to impart his decades of card playing experience to his young friends. He likes the younger generation. He likes to play cards with them. He likes to make small friendly wagers and gradually raise the stakes until, before they know it, the kids are in way over their heads, and that’s when Jet offers to wipe out their debt in exchange for, say, a kidney, or a lung, something small that they don’t really use after all. Jet especially likes Hal, as he has high hopes that Hal will sell him both his kidneys.
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Kate is terribly proud of her jacket. It’s unusual and made from the finest colored threads. It’s also her lucky jacket, which she wears whenever she plays cards. It doesn’t seem to help her luck, but what the heck, it’s still her lucky jacket!
King Colin (who actually prefers to be addressed as "His HIGHness" because it makes him feel taller), is the self-proclaimed King of Cards. He is the Emperor of Euchre, the Patriarch of Pitch, The Hero of Hearts, The Baron of Bridge and the SomethingOrOther of Spades! All Hail!
The King is a fierce competitor and almost never loses a trick (except maybe to MiniQueen but that’s a sore subject). When you play with King Colin, you’re playing with the best!
Martine is undoubtedly the missing Gabor sister that Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda had no idea they were missing. This Lady from Haiti calls everybody “Darling” and will accept only the finer things in life, so make sure you pass her good cards! Elegant, regal, and demanding, Martine is a formidable opponent. Don’t let the “Darlings” fool you, she’ll do anything to win.
When she isn’t studying at design school, Mei likes to stop by her granddad Jet’s place and play a game with him and his card game buddies. She also likes to hustle them out of some money to support her mad shopping lust. She learned from the master, after all.
Some say that ghosts are spirits that have unfinished business in the earthly realm. Melon Mello doesn’t know what he needs to do, and he doesn’t care. He just wants to play cards! (Éand find a dentist.)
Merlina’s given name, Starshine Granolaberry, is but one of the legacies of her hippie upbringing. Raised on a diet consisting entirely of free-range tofu and hemp, Merlina spent much of her childhood in a coma. Upon awakening to find herself fully grown and of legal age, Starshine Granolaberry immediately left the commune in Berkeley and changed her name to Merlina Mandelbaum. She now subsists on a diet consisting entirely of veal, Twinkies and Slim Jims. When she’s not big game hunting or clear-cutting rainforests, Merlina likes to park her Cadillac in handicapped spots and play cards for money. Given her new eating habits, Merlina will most likely lapse back into a coma at any moment. Until she does, though, she is a very dangerous opponent.
Worm in Japanese. MiMiZu was happy chewing on a leaf while pondering meadow life. But, one day, while visiting a picnic basket, Wormy witnessed his first game of cards!
He prayed every day that he might play, too, but he was so small that no one noticed him. He thought he had seen enough to be a good player, too. Then a magical fairy (aren’t all fairies magical?) granted his wish and made him BIG! He was so cute that people didn’t mind playing cards with him. Now you can, too! Thank the magical fairy!
MiniQueen, or M.Q., as she likes to be called, is King Colin’s main squeeze. The fact that she regularly beats him in cards upsets him terribly (although not as terribly as the fact that she’s also an eighth of an inch taller than he is). MiniQueen is quick, clever, and cute as a wittle button!
Monty is the NYPD’s first drug-sniffing monkey. Ever since he was rescued from an evil flea circus where he was employed as a food source, he has been happily fighting crime. Unfortunately, during his escape, the entire troupe of fleas decided they liked Monty better than working, so they tagged along with him. When he isn’t scratching, Monty is a dangerous card player! (Well, for a monkey, that is.)
What do you get when you cross Mr. Rogers with the Great Sea Tortoise of the Galapagos? Well, besides a sure-fire cure for insomnia and a “cease and desist” order from the President’s Commission on Bioethics, you get Myles! Like Mr. Rogers, one suspects that, if Myles were ever to snap, people could get hurtÉreally hurt. And, like the Great Sea Tortoise of the Galapagos, Myles has a funny neck. Myles may seem all warm and fuzzy, but this freak is always calculating how best to beat you. Oh, and like Mr. Rogers, never, ever, turn your back on him.
Sue grew up with a fascination for things buried in the ground. As a child, she’d spend summers excavating her parents’ backyard. They didn’t mind until she started digging up the neighbor’s dead pets and proudly displaying them in her room.
Like all good parents, Sue’s didn’t want to discourage their daughter from her passion, so instead they packed her off to a boarding school in the world’s largest sandbox, Egypt. Sue quickly learned that there were rules to digging in her new home, and spent the next 12 years learning Arch¾ology. Somewhere along the way, she picked up a love of cards (we think it’s the digging implement theme of a particular suit), and now splits her time between digging, cleaning her nails, and card games.
A strange, gangling visitor from a planet just below Orion’s Belt, Zebulon has been monitoring our TV broadcasts since the 1950’s. Shows like “The Untouchables” and Rat Pack movies like “Robin and The Seven Hoods” have become something of an obsession with him. His fellow aliens, perplexed by phrases like, “I’m gonna blow this two-bit jukejoint,” politely asked Zebulon to pack up his posterior-probing equipment and find a new galaxy.
Already frustrated by the inability to find a decent cup of joe at home, Zebulon happily hopped in his saucer and made his way here to Earth. While waiting for Martin Scorscese to return his calls about a screen test, Zeb whiles away the hours playing cards, smoking Luckys and hurting cattle.