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Winner of Escape Room Challenge Announced: Casino Heist

Mon, 07/02/2018 - 14:06 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Escape Room Challenge - Board Game Design Contest

And the winner of The Game Crafter's Escape Room Challenge is Casino Heist! Congratulations to our winner, and thank you to all of our entrants.

The finalists were:

Casino Heist
Access Denied
Bermuda Triangle
Conundrum Candy Factory
Mayan Temple

The judge, Dan Letzring, left feedback for the finalists at http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/175475858892/and-the-winner-of-the-e....

A major step forward for my football game

Mon, 07/02/2018 - 01:26 — animepauly
DragonsRunFourOffense

In this blog post, I'm going to discuss the evolution of my playbook cards to try and solve the issues of how to target individual players in plays and how to motivate players to choose one pass or run play over the others.

Monster descriptions on cards

Thu, 06/28/2018 - 16:29 — Jay103
Heroes & Treasure Troll card

Instead of putting them in the rule book, I have my monsters (and players) described on tarot-sized cards (120x70mm). This provides easy reference during play, plus it's very clean to extend the set of monsters (or players) in expansion packs -- the deck just gets bigger.

I know I've said nice things about GIMP, but I actually bought Photoshop this week and it's indispensable for final layouts before things go to the printer.. (among other things, GIMP only works in RGB, not CMYK). Plus I can trade files easily back and forth with the artist.

New Board Game Pieces - 30mm x 15mm Cylinders

Thu, 06/28/2018 - 14:27 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - 30mm x 15mm Cylinders in 5 colors at The Game Crafter

Some of you have wanted taller options when it comes to Cylinders. Well, you’ll be pleased to see that we’ve added 30mm x 15mm Cylinders to our online parts shop! They are 30mm tall, 15mm wide, and come in 5 colors: Blue, Green, Red, White, and Yellow. Available at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/search?q=cylinder%2C%2030mm%20x%2015mm&hP...

Fun fact: We now have over 1,500 board game pieces and parts in our shop!

New YouTube Series - Board Game Blueprint

Wed, 06/27/2018 - 13:36 — The Game Crafter

Check out our new YouTube series, called the Board Game Blueprint. We’ve also created a shortcut to get there: www.boardgameblueprint.org

This video series will show you behind the scenes of various industry events, take you to conventions, and chat with designers in the community about how and why they make the choices they make when designing their games.

New Board Game Pieces - Crab

Tue, 06/26/2018 - 13:06 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Crab

Summer is officially here, and to celebrate we are releasing these new Crab game pieces! They come in 8 colors and are perfect for ocean or beach-themed games. Depending on how you use them, these parts could go well with our treasure chests, merchants & captains figures, and gold doubloons!

Or how about a chef game where you’re trying to cook up the most crab? We’ll leave the designs up to you and keep adding parts to make sure you have freedom to create. Happy designing!

Get the crab pieces at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/search?q=crab%2C%20acrylic&hPP=25&idx=pro...

Lots of Updates to Component Studio

Mon, 06/25/2018 - 13:06 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Component.Studio - Board Game Design App

We’ve just made a bunch of updates to https://Component.Studio:

* Added several new template functions: sin(), cos(), sqr(), hexstr().
* Enabled shards and stickers.
* Allow literal curly braces to be escaped in templates.
* When you upload a font it will automatically set the name based upon the file name if you don’t set one.
* Allow searching/display of only my fonts.
*Allow bulk uploading of fonts.
* Documented the x operator.
* Documented the \t and {’ ‘} methods for leading white space.

I Thought It'd Be Easy, Then I Tried It

Sat, 06/23/2018 - 14:15 — LoveInPaintCreations

How many of us have thought that designing the cards would be nice and quick, since we already knew what layout we wanted?

No one? Really? Well fine, just me then.

When I created the first card's layout on paper, I thought, "Oh nice, this part'll go quickly and I can start illustrating the cards!"

Boy was that a lark!

It has taken me 8 full days to just type out each card, the abdomen, body part, character, and action cards. Look like there are...87 individual cards. All typed out. Whew that was more than I imagined!

That's next in my designing of my game, you ask?

The Game Crafter Now Offers Card Sleeves

Thu, 06/21/2018 - 12:59 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Accessories - Card Sleeves Now Available at The Game Crafter!

We are pleased to announce that we now offer Card Sleeves in 5 different sizes! This has been a popular request in our community and we always try to give you folks what you want. :) You can add packs of sleeves to your game or you can purchase the packs separately in our Game Accessories Shop at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-accessories?q=sleeve&hPP=25&idx=prod...

Please note that we only sell sleeves in packs of 100 and we do not put cards in sleeves when we manufacture games that include them.

1st Game, Mechanics and Rules (Even a picture!)

Thu, 06/21/2018 - 11:12 — LoveInPaintCreations
First Game Iteration

Well, Hello Again!

Time for my second blog post.

In this post, we will be diving into greater details of my game.

Just get on with it, you say! Fine fine; and away we go!

Let's see what kind of game mechanics my unnamed game with be using:
-Deck Building
-Character Building
-Conflict, Construction, and Escalation
-Hand Management
-Player Elimination
-Set Collection
-Take That

Quite a bit of mechanics going into one little game, isn't there?

Here are the rules I have written so far:

SETUP:
1. Shuffle cards really well.
2. Deal Character card to each player.

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