CHALLENGE 12/1/2014: Tabletop
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Topic: CHALLENGE 12/1/2014: Tabletop
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Subject: CHALLENGE 12/1/2014: Tabletop
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 12:00am
CHALLENGE: TabletopThis week, create a mockup of an original digital board game. It can be a serious game or something utterly absurd. CHALLENGE RULES
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CHALLENGE VOTING/pixels/poll.asp?id=1426' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!CHALLENGE AWARDSThe Tabletop pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:/pixelart/90857.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Heroes of Eldinia by /p/49212.htm' target='_blank'>Crimso /pixelart/90735.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>Battle of North by /p/49536.htm' target='_blank'>HZoltan /pixelart/90758.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Space Panic by /p/45086.htm' target='_blank'>eigenbom Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge! /pixelart/90858.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Magi Nation by /p/46045.htm' target='_blank'>Iscalio /pixelart/90739.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Terrain War by /p/22337.htm' target='_blank'>TropicalSnowcone /pixelart/90713.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Settlers of Catan system by /p/35540.htm' target='_blank'>sjhwi1a /pixelart/90834.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Chezz by /p/47461.htm' target='_blank'>Drazile /pixelart/90773.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Castle Grab - Digital Minimalist Tabletop Game by /p/40290.htm' target='_blank'>CNIAngel /pixelart/90818.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Colored Tiles by /p/47630.htm' target='_blank'>Sir Cutswood /pixelart/90720.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Ambrosia by /p/49628.htm' target='_blank'>Unyinz /pixelart/90811.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>BOTTT - Battle On The Table Top by /p/48365.htm' target='_blank'>Froste
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Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 2:24am
| I don't quite understand what's meant by "original"- are we supposed to come up with our own idea for a board game, or create a mockup that depicts an existing one? |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 2:32am
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Your own game, however, it can resemble any mechanics there is. The point is, most existing board games already have a digital version. |
Posted By: Finlal
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 4:44am
| It would be funny if created mockup would match upcoming ludumdare theme. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 2:51pm
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I know, I'll do a version of chess with modified rules that I created a while ago (I called it chezz). There are two classes: sword and gun. All players move like a king would in normal chess. Each turn, one player can attack. Sword attacks all 8 adjacent squares, and gun attacks one line of squares. There are also walls and stuff. |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 3:09pm
| Sounds interesting already... |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 01 December 2014 at 11:54pm
WIP The location of those darker knights isn't permanent. It's just me getting their colours straight. The transparency is only there because I don't know what else to put there yet. |
Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 02 December 2014 at 4:25am
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Interesting, though I think you should make the board tiles perfectly square- in these sort of top-down-RPG-ish views, visual appeal generally wins over realistic perspective.
Also, I'm assuming vertical is allowed and the "horizontal or horizontal" thing was just a typo. If not, then I guess mine won't count toward the challenge- assuming I can even complete it on time. I've thought about doing a sort of simplified tabletop RPG-type game with a dungeon as the setting and the generic skeletons and bats and orcs and whatnot, although at this point I've really only planned out the GUI to show cards and options and all that. |
Posted By: Tad-Long
Date Posted: 02 December 2014 at 6:03am
| I have an idea I may work on. It's called "No Farm No Vowel." |
Posted By: sormi
Date Posted: 02 December 2014 at 1:49pm
| Does it have to display whole board? |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 02 December 2014 at 2:47pm
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Originally posted by sormi Does it have to display whole board? That would be a good idea. What are you planning? ------------- |
Posted By: sormi
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 3:44am
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Just wondering if one could just show couple tiles of monopoly board and draw higher resolution pieces instead of fitting whole monopoly board into 320x200 canvas. That would kinda ruin the whole idea of board game mockup, wouldn't it? |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 4:14am
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 5:34am
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Originally posted by sormi Just wondering if one could just show couple tiles of monopoly board and draw higher resolution pieces instead of fitting whole monopoly board into 320x200 canvas. That would kinda ruin the whole idea of board game mockup, wouldn't it? "create a mockup of an original digital board game." Monopoly already exists so you can't use that. ------------- |
Posted By: sormi
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 8:53am
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Originally posted by jalonso "create a mockup of an original digital board game." Monopoly already exists so you can't use that. Well that was not the point. The point was if I were to create a monopoly-like board game and zoom in to couple game pieces (tin soldiers for example) would it still be considered a board game? |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 11:40am
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Originally posted by sormi Originally posted by jalonso "create a mockup of an original digital board game." Monopoly already exists so you can't use that. Well that was not the point. The point was if I were to create a monopoly-like board game and zoom in to couple game pieces (tin soldiers for example) would it still be considered a board game? Of course it would. There are thousands of board games out there that use figures. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 1:20pm
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Originally posted by Mrmo Tarius What is it, some sort of dominoes RPG?-snip- |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 3:37pm
| Yes :) |
Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 04 December 2014 at 7:29pm
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Sorry if this is clear to other people. By original does that mean you cannot base the board game on an existing mythology (ie. Starcraft or Final Fantasy or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be off limits as a subject matter)?
I'd like to use an existing IP like one of the examples above to create an "original" boardgame. Is this acceptable? Thanks. edit: I guess to be specific I'd like to use the MagiNation IP which as far as I can tell has been a card game, gameboy game, and tv show. But never a board game in the sense of what I'd like to make . |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 04 December 2014 at 7:48pm
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Originally posted by Iscalio Sorry if this is clear to other people. By original does that mean you cannot base the board game on an existing mythology (ie. Starcraft or Final Fantasy or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be off limits as a subject matter)? I'd like to use an existing IP like one of the examples above to create an "original" boardgame. Is this acceptable? Thanks. Star Craft has an existing board game, but yes you can use an existing IP and as long as you don't copy the existing board game; it's original. |
Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 04 December 2014 at 8:24pm
| great thanks |
Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 05 December 2014 at 12:18am
WIP1 Kybar's Teeth region. picked my ramps. tested out my light/shadow method thingymadoo. starting to design low res nation symbols.
WIP2 Bograth region. 
An example map of the world I'm referencing here: the Moonlands http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110102060220/magination/images/8/8b/Moonlands.png |
Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 05 December 2014 at 7:40pm
Well, here's the mockup GUI for my entry. 20 colours, done vertically based on the assumption that it's allowed and "horizontal or horizontal" is a typo. I've basically got all weekend to get the actual board done, now.
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Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 1:13am
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Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 4:23am
| I'm not sure if that water is meant to just be a rough sketch or not, but it looks awfully scratchy. I'd suggest putting your shading into larger clumps with smoother, thicker lines, especially around the brightest highlight. What you've done so far is pretty good, though; your colour ramps seem quite nice and I'm interested to see the final version. |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 9:30am
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Originally posted by Crimso I'm not sure if that water is meant to just be a rough sketch or not, but it looks awfully scratchy. Couldn't disagree more. This is more stylish as is to me. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 10:15am
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Originally posted by Gecimen
Originally posted by Crimso Couldn't disagree more. This is more stylish as is to me.I'm not sure if that water is meant to just be a rough sketch or not, but it looks awfully scratchy. I agree. Throw a bit of AA to soften a bit and it will be beautiful. ------------- |
Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 3:38pm
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Originally posted by jalonso That's the thing- I'm not sure AAing is really possible with those colours. And I'm not trying to be critical in saying that; it's just how it is.
I agree. Throw a bit of AA to soften a bit and it will be beautiful. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 4:08pm
 Big gifs are hard. |
Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 4:44pm
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lol yeah the water is still WIP. I think part of the problem is there's still a large blue band that is't blended in. We'll see how much time I have to come back to it, right now I'm not even sure how much it will be visible if I put other elements on top of the water area, so I'm just trying to finish up the land first.
thanks for the suggestions. not exactly sure how to anti alias the water with 4-5 available colors, maybe I could move the colors closer together. I've already toned down the high color. |
Posted By: Crimso
Date Posted: 06 December 2014 at 5:35pm
Pretty much got the board done, just need to add a few more traps/objects.
I've still got no idea how I'm going to do the player and monster pieces; hopefully I'll figure something out in time. |
Posted By: Volrak_Rutra
Date Posted: 07 December 2014 at 8:34pm
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Damn, hours before the end of the challenge I come up with the best game: Hungry Hungry Games. Well, no time now, so may the odds be ever in your favor, all who participates. |
Posted By: Drazile
Date Posted: 07 December 2014 at 9:56pm
| What would 'Hungry Hungry Games' involve? |
Posted By: Iscalio
Date Posted: 10 December 2014 at 12:20am
| Cheetos and Mountain Dew are involved I'd wager. |