Rules Sheet Complete

So, here's a link to the rules sheet. If you guys happen to check this before class, tell me what you think.

Rules Sheet in PDF
Rules Sheet in DOC


The board and pieces seem to be drying fine now. I took some photos of the completed project in all of it's unfolded glory.

EYE CANDY!!

Painting

Well, I went and bought paint today and I've been painting the box. I didn't want to use spray paint, because I don't have the area around my house to do that, so I just bought Rustoleum paint. It actually turned out really well in my opinion. I like the texture on the box. Unfortunately, I bought a 79cent brush, so there are some hairs stuck in the paint :( Not a tremendous problem, just an annoyance. The box is done, the board backing is done, and I'm going to flip the board over to do the edges before I leave for my 5 o'clock class, so everything will be ready for 7:30





- Jeff

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Printing

The board, cards, and logos have been printed. The board looks really nice, I think. The cards are large, but since they're not actually meant to be held in the player's hands it should be fine.

I went to OfficeMax first at around 8:30. I asked if they could do double-sided printing. Despite her answer of "yes", I don't suppose they actually had a double-sided printer because she just ran the cards through twice. I haven't looked too closely, but they seem to have lined up well. I also had OfficeMax print two copies of the logo. They didn't have a large scale printer, but the lady called Staples for me and told them I would be coming there. Went to Staples, gave them the CD, and an hour later I went back to pick up the board. I only had them print one copy. Since it cost around $20 and it only took about 45 minutes to print, I figured if we needed another one we could have it done quickly tonight.

So, by about 11 AM I had it all done. The board is flat in the trunk of my car - by itself; it's safe. The cards and logos are with me. I'll see you guys tonight at 7:30 to wrap this thing up.


- clint

Creating Game Pieces

So, we needed Harvesters and Portals, but we didn't have the time or money to make non-abstract representatios, IE small little portals or what not. So, here's what I went through today.

First off, I bought some 3/4" PVC pipe and cut out 100 1/4" tall cylinders, like this


Now, we need to have 2 kinds, one for each building type. So, I had to make a setup


I heated the cylinder with the heat gun and stretched it out

Then I crammed three pieces of metal inside to form a rounded triangle

And viola!! Two different pieces. Repeat 50 times, and we are done


Total time from tube to triangle: 6 hours. Good thing someone else is painting them. I don't want to look at them anymore.

- Jeff

ya man looks good, like the text I think it will work great, it sounds like you got a large work load to take care of....good luck and cya tomorrow

Logo with font added...

I took the logo and used the font type that I had used for the game board, did a little bit of tweaking, and got this

What do you all think?

I've got all the harvesters/portals cut now. I did 100 of them (50 harvesters, 50 portals) so 10 per player. I figure that's enough to get the idea across of the game at least.

I ended up just cutting 1/4" tall 3/4" diameter cylinders out of the PVC pipe. That way, the "harvester" is simply a ring that wraps around each marker on the board, but it's still easy to read what the number is for the resources. I'm going to try and type up a rules set before the end of the night, but I've got other things I need to be working on also, namely ZBrush stuff. Time to go back and sand the 70 remaining harvesters/portals and then figure ou tsomething to do to the portals to make them different from the harvesters. I just had an idea. Let me see how it works out...

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so here is the logo with the text and i'll also put up a color palette so you guys can see some other colors. The font was the best i could find and I think it expresses the word pretty well. It could use some more work which would be fine with me but i dont want to go any farther w/o ya'lls comments. Aight cya tomorrow

aight guys this is the first image for the logo its the inverted pentagram which is called "the devils goat" pretty sadistic looking i think.
let me know what you think

-johnny

Now with more Demonic Runes! Crunchy...

Eh? Better? I sent you the Card PSD, Jeff. And yes, please send me the full resolution continents.


- clint

Happy Valentine's.

Better? Worse? The End? The board is no longer at a resolution of 300. It's 175. These pics are scaled down from that, though. As for the card, when you think it's done how am I going to get you the PSD? Or will you need it? Should I just put up the full size JPEG and let you use that? I don't guess you'd need the PSD unless you were going to have text slide under the fire somehow.


- clint

Game Board Layout

So, tell me what you guys think


And here's a full scale closeup, to see the details:



Feedback please.

- Jeff

Board and Cards

I showed you guys this World Event template that I threw together Wednesday:



It still needs a lot of work (which I'll get to eventually...), but I thought I'd just throw it up here for you guys to comment on.

Last night and this morning I've been working on the actual board. Well, at least the image that will cover it:



What do you think? I've still got to recolor/redesign the continents/territories. Are we going to keep the same territory names? (Irkutsk...pfft.) What numbers are going to be associated with each territory? Also, what are our team colors going to be (so I can put the "personal hell/void"s on the edges of the board)?

We forgot something...

What are we doing for Harvesters and Portals? Any ideas?

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