I've been thinking about it for quite some time, but I recently made the jump to start a new army, this time in the world of HORDES. It took me a while to figure out precisely which faction I wanted to play, and I finally settled on Circle Orboros.
Last weekend, I got in a couple of Warmachine games, and I wanted to take a moment to document how they went here. The first was Harkevich vs. Reznik (against Cody) and the second was The Butcher vs. Supreme Aptimus Zaal (Ian). Details follow.
I'm sure there will be a lot of blogs like this this week, but I wanted to give a quick look at my first impressions of Guild Wars 2. This weekend was the first open beta event, and Jessa and I had one account between us, so I played a Charr Elementalist (Dalgren Crow) and she played a Norn Ranger (Carolina Lee). A couple of pictures and my main likes and dislikes below.
In anticipation of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend, I spent some time taking some screen captures of my current Guild Wars main: Kae Listre.
Enjoy!
If you've been reading the rest of these entries, this part really boils down to getting the physical cards built. In all the prior entries, I talked about how to gather the artwork together, create a template, and finalize the digital copies of the decks. Now, I get down to actually printing and assembling the cards.
When I started my previous post on fantasy gaming in the 80s and 90s, I realized part way through that I had much more to say than anyone would want to read in one sitting. In that post, I talked about the various board games that I grew up playing, why I liked them, and what I still had left of them. Here, I'd like to talk a little bit about why I miss those games, and what is different about more recent games.
This is the third in a short series of posts about putting together a custom deck of cards from scratch. Step 1 was all about organizing the artwork in a meaningful way, and step 2 was about putting together a template to make the actual physical work easier. In this step, I'm going to talk a bit about how I put those two pieces together to make everything work.
I recently received a copy of HeroQuest from a friend of mine, and it made me feel quite a bit of nostalgia for what it was like to be a young gamer. When I look back at the things that really got me in to gaming, aside from the fact that my parents role-played, I think of four games in particular: HeroQuest, Dragon Strike, Talisman, and Key to the Kingdom.
If you haven't read Step 1 of this series, you might want to do that now, however, it's not necessary. In this post, I want to go over the goals and method I used to create the template which I would eventually use to cut out the cards. This is the part where I felt that a bit of design would go a long way, and is typically the part that I work on the most between projects.
This post is the first in a short series I would like to do on putting together a custom made card deck. My goal is to include sufficient pictures and information that one could use the information here to recreate the custom components I have created (for Arkham Horror or otherwise).
To start, I do an initial conversion or export from the distribution format into an image format that I can use.
Last week, I finally finished putting together the third Arkham Horror Spanish League cards. For me, this is a big project, because it was something that I put together almost from start to finish. While I'll make no claim to the idea or the text that went down, this was something that I translated, created the card images, made the deck, printed out, and constructed as actual physical cards. It's pretty cool to have put something together end-to-end like that! Pictures and how it fits into the rest of the box follows.
I've finally completed the first four Arkham Horror Leagues! I'm currently working on translating the third Spanish league with Jessa, so that may be a bit away, but the production of components for Arkham Horror leagues one and two, as well as Spanish Leagues one and two are complete. Images and a small side project after the jump.
I've been putting a lot of time into creating custom components for Arkham Horror. On the one hand, this is an end to itself, on the other, it's a really nice test case for putting together components for the Dune board game. Along the way, I found that I needed a light table to align the front and back of cards, so I built one.
Last week I posted about my EVE Intel project. It's nowhere near complete, but here is the state that it's in, if you want to take a look and see what I was working toward:
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Those of you in the EVE Online community have probably heard of the various things going on with licensing. As a result, I'm temporarily dropping my EVE Intel project off of my list of to-dos. More details below.
