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MogwaiSC
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Hi all...
I've created a Blogger account and posted some jpg's of cards I've created.
Here's the URL.
http://bowser-psychobabble.blogspot.com/
Let me know what you think.
Edited by Gekonauak on 12 June 2009 at 8:10am
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Galaktische
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice job, I love the art. It is right in line with the
previous art style.
Good work... maybe I'll try my hand at making something
too...?
J--
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fixed the link for you.
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what did you use to create the art?
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MogwaiSC
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The program I used to do the graphics is called OmniGraffle Pro (I'll
abbreviate it as OGP for the rest of this post). I have version 4, but the
latest version is 5. Just so you know, it's Mac OS X only; the company
that makes it doesn't do Windows. The closest equivalent on Windows is
Microsoft Visio.
OGP is generally considered a "mid-level" application compared to other
"professional" drawing applications such as Illustrator or Freehand.
However, it's a fraction of the price and does 90% of what either of them
do, but Freehand and Illustrator are both dual-platform. Both also have
EXTREMELY steep learning curves. With Illustrator for example, you can't
just install it and go; you literally have to have some kind of tutorial or a
dedicated book to use it, it's implementation is so complicated and
convoluted.
In my opinion, the only real advantage either Illustrator or Freehand has
over OGP is they both support drawing tablets so you can actually
sketch and draw with them, whereas with OGP you're limited to vector
based elements. However, the newest version (v5) does support
complex bezier curves so it has a fair amount more power than v4.
One of the great things about OGP it is it can export to wide variety of
formats; Visio, PDF, JPG, BMP, TIFF, etc. I typically export to PDF as it's
most compatible with the widest range of other applications. It's also
capable of producing files that can be used directly by printing services
for actual card production.
With respect to the cards themselves, I still haven't standardized how I
do them, which would be necessary for making them consistent in
appearance. But, I'm working on that and I'm close to having it set up
so any card I might want to do would all be consistent in terms of the
size, resolution, fonts, etc. for the final image.
Anyway, regardless of what I've done in terms of the cards, I hope you
guys like them; I can produce pretty much anything we can think of and
have it be ready for print production. I'd say it takes about 2 hours to
do a card from start to finish using the template/stationary document
I've got set up now.
I've been talking with Galactus about getting some of the cards we've
done printed, but we want to play-test them before we do. I've got
some ideas about how to do that and I think the two of us can come up
with some playable prototypes, but they wouldn't be production level,
and we want to make sure any cards we'd pay to have printed would be
balanced and workable beforehand.
I'll talk some things over with him in the next few weeks and see about
getting some prototypes printed up; maybe we can send you guys some
so you can play test them as well. The more feedback we get on them
the better.
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Oh, forgot one thing...
With respect the card art, not the actual layout program (OGP), I've just
been surfing around the internet, primarily wallpaper sites, and been
using images I've found out there. I know some of them are
copyrighted, so Galactus and I have tentatively decided we wouldn't sell
anything we produced that used such art; rather we'd trade them for
other cards.
Much of the art I've found that I've used for the cards is stuff I've
already had in my personal wallpaper collection (I'm a bit of a GUI
junky), but occasionally I've found wallpapers that inspired ideas for
cards. The B7 Economic Base I did was just such a case; I saw the image
and it immediately made me think of a urban commercial center, etc.
Same for the Black Ops Base I did.
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-For those with Windows, paint.net can do this as well. I have found (over the whole 2 days i've been playing with it) that paint.net is very easy to use once you get over the mild learning curve. Once you get the hang of it, templates that can be used and reused are very easy to do.
The only trouble i have is the actual card art, as i am no artist. But i've made a bunch of neat cards sans the artwork! For now just been plugging in pictures i find online.
I haven't put any GE cards together (at least not for use with the old game rules, have some using slightly revamped rules, Star trek and some others) but this has inspired me to give it a try. Thanks for posting the link and your thoughts on this Mogwai.
Lobo
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I can easily generate just about anything in terms of cards for the game,
and export formats that any professional printing company could use to do
final output. I'm not sure about this paint.net thing, but OGP has a
tremendous amount of power and flexibility, and as I'm a Mac user, it's the
most logical choice for me.
As time goes on, provided I have time... I'll see about making more card
images and posting them. I'll let you know.
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Very Nice but what is the black diamond with the number next to the command point mean
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ceejee wrote:
Very Nice but what is the black diamond with the number
next to the command point mean
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That's armor. I know it's not the same symbol as what's used on Leopan
ships, but I wanted it to be different as a way to distinguish it from supply.
My assumption is to run armor for Dragons the same way it works for
Leopans. And, I know it's the same as what's currently used for repair; it
seems logical to me to do that, but I'm trying to think of a different symbol
that will stand for armor.
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I like the idea it would make the Dragons more playable. How about using a little dragon scale instead of the repair symbol. With the ability you have i am sure you could make one. I on the hand have no artistic ability at all.
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I was thinking something like a little shield symbol... I don't have a pre-fab
symbol in my graphics program, so it will take me a little bit of work to
make one, and I'm totally swamped with work and family responsibilities
right now... I'll get one made and revise the cards as soon as I can.
In the mean-time, I'm trying to get enough new Dragons made, and
revisions to existing ones, to make some prototype cards and proxies out
of old cards to build a deck to play test with my group. I'll report back
when I can how that turns out.
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I've had to take down the card images I had made as the account I used
was compromised. It is still intact but I cannot access and google will
not release it to me as I can't remember when I started the account. :P
go figure.
I will start a new blogger site specifically dedicated to the reworked
dragon cards I am producing.
To facilitate the process, high res scans of existing dragon cards would
greatly facilitate the process for me, as I do not have a scanner.
I will try to do a couple of cards a week, and post them each week.
Anyone got scans of dragon cards i can use?
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i can try to scan them with my scanner. do you want the highest res I can get and which cards would you like first, providing i can do them?
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I've been thinking I should start with the existing ones, and revise them to
make them more playable. In other words, give them armor that follows
the same rules as the Leopan armor systems.
It occurs to me to try using the images from Eric's card museum. I'll copy
a few and see if they're high enough resolution to make it workable. I'm
also handy with Photoshop so I can do color corrections, contrast,
airbrushing, etc. to gussy them up.
Not sure when I'll have a lot of time, but I should be able to get a few
done in the next few days if I manage my time right.
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Sorry, forgot to include the link.
I need to resize the images too... they're much too large.
http://b0wz3r.blogspot.com/
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F***ing awesome Please do more
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Some time ago I attempted to start working on the Federation as a
GE empire and did a handful of ships and some equipment cards
and rule cards. I've posted just a couple here:
http://b0wz3r.blogspot.com/2011/01/speculative-federation-
ships-for-ge.html
They're older than the ones I did for Dragons, so don't have the
same design elements, and are the same as traditional GE cards.
Some day I'd like to update them, but I don't really have time for
anything like that anymore... Sadly, I can't say if I'll ever have time
for GE again. :-(
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Wow Mog I did the same thing and in fact did the whole Fed Fleet and oddly I choose the same color as yours but yours is a little more powerful then mine 1 less heavy, 1 less shield and 1 less phaser and yours also looks much better then mine.
I also did a Klingon fleet as well.
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Ceejee...
I chose the design elements I did for the card because I was going
for a Star Fleet Battles type of look/feel with the cards. I tried to
make them true to the fact that the Fed ships in SFB had some of
the heaviest firepower in the game (although they are really barges
when it comes to maneuverability...)
I also designed some equipment cards based on the SFB rules as
well, emergency deceleration, positron flywheel, drone racks, etc.
I'd love to do some Klingon cards, and more, but I have no wish to
run into any copyright entanglements that would result... Galactus
and I had talked about finding a print shop to do SFB races for us,
and we'd decided that we'd only trade them and never sell them if
we did have them printed, because that should hopefully keep the
copyright sharks off us, but you never know...
Again, I'd love to be able to put more time into this, but with all
the grown up stuff I have in my life now, it's practically impossible.
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