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Scott R Smith has been inducted into The Game Crafter Hall of Fame

Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:35 — The Game Crafter

Scott R Smith has been inducted into The Game Crafter Hall of Fame because his game, Dungeon Drop, won the Game Parts Only Challenge. Congratulations! His designer interview is available at http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/175748362306/scott-r-smith-inducted-...

New Board Game Pieces - 16mm x 10mm Wood Discs

Mon, 07/09/2018 - 12:30 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - 16mm x 10mm Wood Discs

We continue to add more wood discs to our game parts shop and now we’ve got 16mm x 10mm discs in stock! They come in 6 colors (Blue, Brown, Green, Purple, Red, Yellow) and you can see all of the types of wood discs in at https://www.thegamecrafter.com/game-pieces?q=16mm%20x%2010&hPP=25&idx=pr...

New Board Game Pieces - More Crystals

Thu, 07/05/2018 - 14:20 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Board Game Pieces - Crystals - 6 New Colors Available; 15 Colors Total!

The Game Crafter has sold Crystals for awhile now and they have been extremely popular. We have added 6 new colors which include Transparent Black, Yellow Green, Silver, Gold, Light Blue, and Transparent White.

Click here to see all 15 colors in our game pieces shop

Note: We have a limited supply of the Transparent Yellow Green and Transparent Light Blue. Once they are gone we are unable to get more.

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....

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.

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.

Component.Studio Updates

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 12:53 — The Game Crafter
The Game Crafter - Component.Studio - Board Game Design App

We’ve made a bunch of small changes to Component.Studio:

1. Added character count to fields in data set editor.
2. Exporting to TGC auto-selects similarly named game and components.
3. You can now update a font in place by clicking on it’s preview image.
4. Fit to box now scales down fonts 1 pixel at a time rather than 5.
5. Updates for GDPR compliance.

Start your free trial today at https://component.studio

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