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Pushout Graphics Final
2007-10-30 05:47:00 This is the last Pushout post for a while. I'll still be working on it, just not posting. I finally have the final graphics locked. It takes about 15 to 30 minutes to make a six-card page. There's 216 cards, so if I just make a page or two a day, I'll be done in under a month. It prints out nice and I'm also making the electronic versions of the cards. More About: Graphics , Final
Pass
2007-10-26 07:54:00 Another game convention, another team pass.As the small town paper says, a fun time was had by all. More About: Pass
Pushout Half Graphics
2007-10-26 06:08:00 I've made 366 'half graphics' for the game. Each half is one half of the cards. I've also made only 36 of the 216 cards. It took over two hours just to make the 36 cards and I plan to scrap that and remake them because I didn't like the look. The half graphics took over five hours. The game is creeping along. More About: Graphics , Half
Pushout Math
2007-10-24 20:39:00 Every spare minute of every spare day between now and Saturday while I'm near the computer will be spent making the game. There's much more work to be done than I thought on this complete game overhaul. I probably won't have the rules finished in time or a downloadable PDF, but I should have all the cards made. There are 216 cards, each different. Today's Thing is designing those 216 cards. there was some math and chartwork involved and yet it may still be hopelessly broken. We'll see. The good news is I've also made a card making factory and have split the graphics into each half. I'll have, when I'm finished every possible card half available to cut and paste. There's 12 to a page and one page for each of th 28 mechanics, so that's 336 card halves for the 212 cards. Then I have to assemble the cards, eeek, back to work. More About: Math
Tuna Mountain Climbers!
2007-10-24 20:06:00 On the days that I didn't carry my Curiosity Shop lunch box with my cold lunch, or walk home to eat bacon and tomato sandwiches with my parents, Tuna Mountain Climbers were one of my favorite hot lunches in grade school.Recipe HERE.
Card Ideas
2007-10-24 03:32:00 So after I bought these giant cards a while back, I kept thinking of what I could possibly make with them. Here's the beginning of my list:BlackJack mask Queen of hearts 1/2 mask Book cover folded 1/2 small notebook cover skirt if I could crochet hat? taped book mark alt. book line up poster garage sale sign two: small purse several: tote ceiling fan decoration poster signs for poker run stepping stone vase 3 connected fly swatter aquarium wallpaper CD case CD wallet box card holder box dice box/rolling box dice boot? prize several: lamp shade archery target puppet birthday card-'you're an ace!' knitting needle holder one in circle: pencil cup fan name tag photo frame scrapbook page luggage tag coasters no-see-um poker hat match up game family reunion organizer (if only 4 branches in family) hop scotch markers giant beads tree star embroider on card bead embroidery ruler wallet? postcard bracelet window shade wallpaper boarder earrings (cut just the number/suit) tea tray paint p... More About: Ideas , Card
Pushout Graphics Overhaul
2007-10-23 20:29:00 This weekend, there's a few small game cons in Lincoln. I'm hoping to completely overhaul Pushout to make it play faster, with more strategy and with an eye to a four player expansion. I hope to demo the game this weekend. Above is the new designed card with, as you can see, two new abilities. I'm rewriting the rules and changing a lot. I'm also preparing the game for an electronic version and redoing the way I make cards. Thanks to Jesse for helping me play test. I am leaving the game open for expansions. This one card represents a lot of work and thought. Although, the final version will probably have a different font. More About: Graphics
Card Houses
2007-10-23 03:23:00 My Thing for the day is a triple decker card house:OK. How about just a tiny card house:It might work better if our floors were level. ;pWell, how about just some nice photos of cards: More About: Card , Houses
Blog Down For A Week
2007-10-21 09:45:00 Due to a seriously corrupted file, the TTOTD blog has been out for a week. I'm so lucky I backed up the file just last weekend. This is the backup file.It's a do-over. More About: Blog , Week
Banners-N-Button
2007-10-13 06:02:00 A couple web banner to use on Blog Explosion, made with Banner Maker. And because I can, a sparkly one:And a button made with the GR Button Maker to put in the sidebar to link to our map.Feel free use any of these buttons on your site, click here for all my TTOTD buttons, just link from Photobucket. More About: Banners
PCI Card
2007-10-11 06:28:00 My warhorse mac is over six years old and still chugging along. I'm expanding the mac with a bigger external hard drive and a better DVD burner, but I have to install a USB 2.0 card to upgrade. I've never installed a PCI card before and it turned out to be pretty easy. No drivers or nuthin'. The hardest part was getting all the dust out from inside the mac, that was three-fourths of the time. For those with older computers, blow the dust out of them every six months or so. I must have aired out a pound of dust, all sucked in by the fan system. Anyway, here's some photos:Skitch! The PCI card only costs 20 bucks for five new ports, 4 external/1 internal.Skitch! I had to use almost a full can of air.Skitch! And the fans blades were worse.Skitch! Mac clean, hard part over.Skitch! Pretty simple overall, but very dusty. More About: Card
New Pushout Cards
2007-10-10 04:42:00 I'm working on some new Pushout cards. I plan to have a graphical overhaul of the game. (These graphics will be changed) Plus I'm making 60 or more different cards. The guys at Lackey are helping me port the game over so it can be played over the internet using their super awesome program for playing CCG's. You can read about it here. I hope to have a more formalized version of the game by Monday or Tuesday. The old version is here. More About: Cards
Frappr Map
2007-10-10 04:41:00 Come put your pin in our map! I think that most of the pins will be in the same state, but who knows?
Game Collection
2007-10-08 23:57:00 Over the weekend, I added all the games in the house to Board Game Geek. We have over 150 games, just in the house. We didn't even look downstairs and I know I have some games at Kel's house. The goal is to use this random selection to get us to play games we haven't played in a long time. I can think of 10 games off the top of my head I've never even played that I've bought. I admit it, I'm a game-a-holic. So, take a look around, refresh the page and discover some games you'd like to play.I also added the random selection of games to the sidebar.
Merry-Go-Round
2007-10-06 05:34:00 On a trip to a dollar store, I found a cute kid craft kit. With rub-on decals, pieces that pop together, and a propeller that makes it spin when you blow, it was well worth a whole dollar. More About: Round , Merry
Dice and a Badly Painted Mini
2007-10-06 01:26:00 Here's my poorly painted mini from the con. I also won these nerdy dice. More About: Mini , Dice
Pushout the Game
2007-10-05 06:34:00 HERE'S the game. Pushout is under half a meg.It's a nine page PDF with all the parts you need to play including 30 cards (printed off twice to make the 60 card deck), the card backs, the fully illustrated rules and a page of variations.Download it now. It's not big and it's a full free abstract strategy card game for two players. Yea! I wrote a new game. And this one's pretty good.An addition to the rules after play testing a bit:A left/right movement may push itself off the board, lemming-like, leaving a hole. All normal side rules apply.If a face down card is pushed off the side of the board, it comes under control of that player's side. The player has two options, discard the card or place back into the newly created hole in it's starting orientation. The player does not get to chose the card's orientation as all flipped and drawn cards onto the board are treated this way. More About: Game , The Game
Skeleton Miniature
2007-10-05 05:41:00 Another miniature I painted last weekend was this skeleton warrior. More About: Skeleton , Miniature
Skitch and Games
2007-10-04 06:30:00 So Bryan introduced me to a great program today, Skitch . You can take a photo or a screen grab and draw on it, type on it, goof on it, and then share the 'doctored' photo. Very fun so far in the few minutes I've had to actually play with it. One of the gamers at Nuke Con put up a website with photos, so here's a couple borrowed and Skitched shots, to prove we were really there. Click on the photo to go to the page they are from, and respectful thanks for the borrowed pictures.Me at the 'Artist Jam'And the youngens getting in their foam swords groove.And I suppose, just taking a couple photos and messing with them isn't much of a Thing, so for an added bonus, a mini review of one of the games I played. (And also using Skitch!)The game Vikings comes from the publisher Rio Grande Games , which told me right off the bat that I would probably like it. I've loved Rio Grande and Ravensburger since I got Labyrinth in '91. From watching some other folks play, I see there's little wo...
Pushout Graphics
2007-10-03 11:24:00 Today's Thing is part one of a new abstract card game I wrote called Pushout. Today, I spent a few hours on creating the templates, formatting, design and layout of the 30 unique cards of the game. The picture you see is the set-up for a bigger variation of the game called Double Pushout. There are seven pages of printable cards, including a page of card backing for double-sided printers. The nut of this Thing for me was developing a system to make the cards easy to assemble in a factory-like way. This will make it easier to add expansions down the road.When the game is finalized, it'll have graphic examples of game play and some game play variations. Tomorrow, I write the rules and will post the PDF.So, warm up your printers for a free game tomorrow (probably late) and help me play test Pushout. More About: Graphics
Miniature
2007-10-03 06:11:00 One of the things I did at the gaming convention was take a miniature painting class. This little dude shows the lessons I learned about layering the paint. More About: Miniature
Game Theory
2007-10-02 10:26:00 My biggest enemy is time for these daily Things. I have about 7 or 8 big ideas, but no time to really finish them to my satisfaction. Most of these projects actually have some work completed, but with the draining, but necessary work still ahead.For instance, today I wrote an abstract card game based on a mutual player use of cards. It's got thirty cards in the game. I know what I'm putting on the cards and the rules aren't too complex. The problem is graphics. That's the time suck, making each card graphic for the PDF and the one or two graphic for the rules to show the table layout for the game. Here's a mock-up of one of the 30 different cards in the game. It took me fifteen minutes and it's not my final idea. Ugh.So, today's Thing is a quick run down of some of my larger projects, mostly games.1. The game you see above. It's a smallish card game.2. The big game. It's a word/tile game with modular, scalable rules. This game, if it works, is the one I want to get publishe... More About: Theory , Game
Vacation Passes
More articles from this author:2007-10-01 21:45:00 Due to Family Vacation , there will be no Thing for Shelly on Friday or Bryan on Monday. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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