In my head I carried two solitare games I wanted to make. In my initial sketchbook notes I could not get one to work so I decided to focus on the second one.
The theme is early 20th. century wildlife hunting. I will make this a story based game with “missions” to complete for progress.
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So instead of jotting this down in some google keep notes or a drive doc, I’m sharing it here. This is a short summary of things I need to solve or want to add to Moogh.
When making print and play games I try to make one file everybody can use instead of one for US and one for Europe. To have one working document we need to make the prints within the shared space of the formats. The smallest shared space between US Letter and International A4 is 210 mm width x 279 mm height. (8.27″ x 11″).
And use a margin that is safe for most printers which could be 0,25″ or 6,5 mm.
Remember that your art needs to be saved as CMYK and not RBG.
I is easy to get sidetracked when you work on your own projects.
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I once attended a lecture about the sixth sense. The human brain receive billions of impulses and impressions – like data, but we can only process a very small percentage. Our brain is Continue reading “Remarkable concurrences”
I worked hard to get the rules done in time but Moogh and Nian are both “done”. Nian is a simple 9 card game with a Chinese new years theme – maybe it could have had more strategy and I hope that I can find the energy to explore the game.
Moogh ended up as a quite nice little game with a lot of things going on (I even stripped it down a lot). I think Moogh could work even better if there was no component restrictions – as it is now it suffers a little from the limited amount of tokens etc.
To write clear game rules is way more complicated than I initally thought it would be 🙂 During my final tests I played around in TableTopia and making the game playable online. You can take a look here
So I embrace the extra time I got. Currently I am working on making a Table Topia Tailored game – but I think I want to get a prototype done quickly to playtest the idea.
Painting and illustrating games can be a tough job. In many cases overly detailed art on games are not necessarily for the best – sometimes simple and expressive visuals do not clash with the gameplay. My characters for Moogh are on the more detailed end of the scale maybe – I try not to use too much time on each painting but instead focus on color and expression. Below you can see the front and back image for a card – and over on facebook I posted a timelapse video of the painting process if you are interested.
Kai Bettzieche is working on a game for a singe page PnP game over at boardgamegeek. It is called Spider Chess. He called out for artist help to create a game cover and I took a shot at the challenge. I has been long since I used so much time on anatomy in a drawing – and thanks to Sycra on Youtube and to pinterest for the easy reference searching.
