Re: Game Crafter - Publishing your own Board and Card Games
Posted by Billiam Babble on Dec 18, 2011; 9:54pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Game-Crafter-Publishing-your-own-Board-and-Card-Games-tp7103267p7106611.html
I have the PDF of Dungeoncrawl - I bought one and was gifted one - the authors (I think I'm friends with one) are big users of stock art bought and sold on the OneBookshelf sites, I think they're pretty careful when it comes to stealing stuff (like art), although they are certainly not afraid of recycling ideas. It's fairly comprehensive, but doesn't have that square by square gritty feel you get with figures-in-dungeon play. You also need a pretty big tabletop just to play the solo game. It looks like it has almost everything you'd want from a card based crawler, but it definitely feels like it's missing something ...
What amazes me is that when tiles are reduced to playing card size, that you might as well be playing "Pipes".
There has to be another way!
Yes, yes, some of those pieces definitely have a design history.
The wooden men are identical to the pieces in Carcassonne.
Another interesting thing about this site is that it's development comes out of one man's desire to make his own games and found that he needed to get different parts made in different places - so he decided to share/profit from the knowledge - but that's why it all feels a bit "hub" like.
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Game-Crafter-Publishing-your-own-Board-and-Card-Games-tp7103267p7106611.html
I have the PDF of Dungeoncrawl - I bought one and was gifted one - the authors (I think I'm friends with one) are big users of stock art bought and sold on the OneBookshelf sites, I think they're pretty careful when it comes to stealing stuff (like art), although they are certainly not afraid of recycling ideas. It's fairly comprehensive, but doesn't have that square by square gritty feel you get with figures-in-dungeon play. You also need a pretty big tabletop just to play the solo game. It looks like it has almost everything you'd want from a card based crawler, but it definitely feels like it's missing something ...
What amazes me is that when tiles are reduced to playing card size, that you might as well be playing "Pipes".
There has to be another way!
Yes, yes, some of those pieces definitely have a design history.
The wooden men are identical to the pieces in Carcassonne.
Another interesting thing about this site is that it's development comes out of one man's desire to make his own games and found that he needed to get different parts made in different places - so he decided to share/profit from the knowledge - but that's why it all feels a bit "hub" like.
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