From BioShock to gardening to Card Hunter

By Tracey Lien on Feb 05, 2013 02.05.13

"It's a cape!" he says, holding it up. "We're giving these away at [Penny-Arcade Expo] in a few weeks. They're prizes." Chey turns the cape around. "That's the Card Hunter logo." He hands the cape to Ben Lee, an artist who is, to date, the only full-time employee at Chey's independent studio, Blue Manchu. Lee performs the same fwooshing motion, making a face as if to say, "Not bad; not bad at all." He folds it up, slides it back in its bag and returns to it a shelf stacked with more of the Card Hunter capes. The team behind Card Hunter is gearing up for the game's first public outing. Chey and Lee have been working on the game for almost two years and are taking it to Seattle to show it to the press and public at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). They've got capes. They've got a big Card...