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New Board Game Pieces at The Game Crafter - Flame, Logs, and Smoke

Wed, 08/08/2018 - 13:11 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Flame, Logs, and Smoke

We have added some HOT new game pieces to our Board Game Pieces Shop! These parts allow game designers to have an easy and modular way to build fires in their game. The 3 components are the Flame, Logs, and Smoke. See them at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=flame&hPP=25&idx=products&p...

The Flame token is orange and can be used flat on the table as a fire token (without a base). It can also be snapped into the Logs to make a campfire, or the Smoke to make an uncontrolled fire.

New Board Game Pieces at The Game Crafter - Large Sheep

Mon, 08/06/2018 - 12:31 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Large Sheep

We have added Large Sheep to our Board Game Pieces Shop! As you can see, these sheep are pretty big compared to the 16mm Green Meeple we included for scale! They are made of plastic and are mounted on a wood base. They are available in 4 different colors (Blue, Red, Yellow, Green) and can be purchased separately. See them all at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/search?q=sheep%2C%20large&hPP=25&idx=prod...

These sheep are unique oversized pieces that also can serve as great eye candy for your office or game room!

Video Progress!

Mon, 08/06/2018 - 09:13 — LoveInPaintCreations

Showing off my current progress sketches for my card game 'Animation Amalgamation' (WORKING TITLE)

http://bit.ly/GameProgress (it's youtube)

Done! (-ish)

Sun, 08/05/2018 - 23:19 — Jay103
Heroes & Treasure Back of Box

All my files have been uploaded to the manufacturer.

I think everything's in the right formats and sizes.. I'm sure they'll let me know if I missed something.

Mostly delivered PDFs, though my cards for some reason were 50-100MB as PDFs, even if I didn't save with layers, and anyway would've needed the fonts installed, so I saved those as TIFF files and poof, 5MB each.

Total asset size was just under 1GB.

New Board Game Pieces - Resource Tokens

Tue, 07/31/2018 - 13:07 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Resource Tokens

We have added some new resource tokens to our Board Game Pieces Shop! These are made of wood and are a great fit for resource management games where you need various types of food, livestock, and natural resources. In this release we have a Bull (Orange), Pig (Pink), Bread (Light Brown), Bread (Dark Brown), and a Fish (Yellow)

We also have a collection of premium resources that add a nice finishing touch to your game. They can also be used as a game upgrade for many popular mass market titles that you already own.

New Board Game Pieces - Ingots

Mon, 07/30/2018 - 16:40 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Ingots

We have expanded our collection of Ingots by adding 5 additional colors (Orange, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Brown) to our Board Game Pieces Shop! These new parts means we now offer 9 colors of ingots and you can see them at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=ingots&hPP=25&idx=products&.... Don’t forget that we also have two types of premium metal ingots too!

Want To Name My Game?

Mon, 07/30/2018 - 13:49 — LoveInPaintCreations

Well hello there!

I have been diligently working on my game for the last couple of months and I have finally gotten to a point where I feel that I cannot wait any longer to name my game.

That is where YOU come in!

I have created a poll with all of the options that you guys so wonderfully provided. Now, all I need is for your to cast your vote for your favorites and from that, the name shall commence!

Let the games begin now by quickly casting your vote here: http://bit.ly/NameMyGame (it's surveymonkey, won't take you to a bad site, don't worry!)

New Character Meeples at The Game Crafter

Wed, 07/25/2018 - 13:28 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Character Meeples - Custom Printed Meeples

New Character Meeples! Yesterday we announced that you can now make Custom Printed Meeples at The Game Crafter! As with all of our products, we produce them on demand in any quantity and we ship them anywhere in the world!

NEW - Make Your Own Custom Printed Meeples at The Game Crafter!

Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:45 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Custom Printed Meeples at The Game Crafter

Now you can design your own full color custom printed Meeples! These are perfect for adding extra flair to any game. Plus, you can print front and back so you can determine directionality for your Meeples.

Pricing is $0.50 per Meeple base, plus $0.75 per printed side. However, if you have 6 or more Meeples in your game, the cost drops to only $0.25 per printed side. And you can choose to print only 1 side if you like.

Make your own custom Meeple now at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/publish/product/CustomPrintedMeeple

Scribus and making booklets for print

Mon, 07/23/2018 - 23:12 — Jay103
Heroes & Treasure Rule Book Cover

I bought Photoshop and I'm getting reasonably good at doing basic "game" stuff with it (not shopping photos). I got Inkscape and used it to lay out my tokens and cut paths.

But I might be most excited about learning Scribus. This is an open-source "equivalent" of Adobe InDesign, i.e. a layout tool.

Took a few hours a day for a week to get my 24-page campaign doc laid out, most of which was the learning curve. So then I decided to tackle a more complex document, namely my rule book.

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