Hey guys, I've got a preference question to ask.
The project I'm working on now is a free, print and play tactics game. At first I planned on making the board itself 20 x 20 inches, and the character pieces 2 x 2 inches. The board is divided into a 10 square grid, so each piece would fit on one 2 inch square.
This all looked cool in my head as I'm thinking about the game on a table...until I wondered how players would print the board, let alone myself. The first thought was to cut it into pieces and include it with a diagram of the full board. My next idea was to shrink it down. Make the board 10x10 and the markers 1x1 so that way it's easier to print and requires fewer pages. My issue is that I don't really like the look of the game at that scale.
If you were playing, would you rather have a larger board or a smaller one? Even if playing on the larger board meant having to print 4-5 pages, cutting, the gluing them together.
Originally I intended on finishing it, playing it with a few friends, then posting it online after making adjustments, as a print and play. I did consider selling it online as an alternative but for now I'm only working on it as a hobby. Not to say I wouldn't want it to do well on the market...that's just not where my interest lies.
However I do like the idea of getting it made professionally then buying a copy of my own. I'll be looking into that, thanks.