I dont know a lot of board games that have characters that lend themselves to being redesigned for a game model. I can imagine chess pieces being redone, but how about a mutant soldier or cannon for risk? Will that be off limits. I think its hard to find clear limits in what is allowed, and what not? An Aston Martin might be out, but if its an oldtimer Aston Martin, it would fit with monopoly really well.
All in all, I think maybe we should just go for chess pieces. Not that my vote counts since I never started or finished any competition over here. Heh.
I started this forum on the idea of challenge and not contest. To be challenged to create something given an idea. Form-fitting the topic to what you WANT to model kinda nullfies that point. The original intention I had planned was to be given a subject matter, no matter how ridiculous, and produce something it out of it to give those not in the industry, but are trying to get in, an idea of what it is like to work out problems with modeling something that you may not be particularly interested in. Obviously, this place has taken on a life of its own since it began (and this is a GOOD THING ).
As for the next event, I REALLY dig the game piece idea. I mean, damn, just scour Amazon for board games. Monopoly, Chess, Risk, Stratego, Candyland, Chutes and Ladders....hell, I can think of PLENTY to expend some creative juice on.
Keep this place going, folks! You have made it more than I expected. =D
I think it would be cool to make the designs easily recognizable as board pieces. Like, require a base that fits in with the design. Going with chess pieces would be fun, and every base have the title of which piece it is. I like the custom chess boards you find in hobby shops.
I know it was my idea and I'm biased, but it really does sound like the majority is interested in the board piece redesign.
One thing we *could* do, is limit it to games from a certain manufacturer before a certain year. Honestly I would hope we could just say "use your own judgement" but I don't know if people would play nice. Obviously a game like Chutes and Ladders or Cooties would be ok. Warhammer 40k, or the He-Man edition of Uno, not ok. If you try to think of the spirit of "classic board games" like you would play as an eight year old with your parents and sibblings, that's the general idea that would keep this away from being a standard GIANT SPACE MARINE OMG BOOBS challenge. Or you could just have to post your idea in this thread and get the general consensus from Kub or someone who could be the judge of what would be appropriate or not, before starting.
What about limitations? I think 2,000 - 2,500 is a good poly limit, and one 512, one 256 is good texture. That gives plenty of room to play, but is low enough to still be managable as a side project.
i think the limitation of the boardgame character should be it has to be an IP created specifically for a boardgame. so no dora the explorer version of dont break the ice, but the orginal dude from dont break the ice would be fine. seams like a simple rule that would keep things interesting and there wouldnt be an era in game history contraint. to tell you the truth there might be some new boardgame IPs i dont know about that could be fun to make.
I think this will be my first comp here... So... here is what I think. Maybe we can have a list of... let's say... 10-15 board games from which we can chose. This way we can do what we want but not what the others don't want
actually no... there was some Sea World game I remember playing as a kid but I can't find any info on it. That and candyland where the only board games I could remember playing before finding pong in my aunt's attic.
Chutes and Ladders
Monopoly
Candyland
Clue
Chess
Don't Wake Daddy
Don't Break the Ice
Cooties
Parcheesi - [The Royal Game of India]
Battleship
Go for Broke
Risk
Mousetrap
Life!
Payday
Operation
Hungry Hungry Hippo
Hm, just to make sure: We're modelling the pawns, not the mascots, right? So from Monopoly we'd model the car, the hat and whathaveyou, not that geezer with the top hat?
never played that one, but yes i do remember it. I am having a really hard time figuring out what to do for it though...In theory this is a really good idea as i stated before....but now im having second thoughts, because there is such a limited choice. If i'm wrong help me out here.
I guess if no one has called it, ill do that schnauzer from monopoly
Well, warhammer quest wasn't the same as warhammer, you only played it with 2-3 miniatures, on top of a set of layed-out boards and you had to move your pieces to specific parts of the boards.
It wasn't a true tabletop game, but I guess similarly it wasn't a true boardgame.
Ah well
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He's well rested because he didn't exert himself on the last one. OH SNAP.
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I'M WORKING ON IT!!!
p.s. thanks for the comment MoP!
All in all, I think maybe we should just go for chess pieces. Not that my vote counts since I never started or finished any competition over here. Heh.
I started this forum on the idea of challenge and not contest. To be challenged to create something given an idea. Form-fitting the topic to what you WANT to model kinda nullfies that point. The original intention I had planned was to be given a subject matter, no matter how ridiculous, and produce something it out of it to give those not in the industry, but are trying to get in, an idea of what it is like to work out problems with modeling something that you may not be particularly interested in. Obviously, this place has taken on a life of its own since it began (and this is a GOOD THING
As for the next event, I REALLY dig the game piece idea. I mean, damn, just scour Amazon for board games. Monopoly, Chess, Risk, Stratego, Candyland, Chutes and Ladders....hell, I can think of PLENTY to expend some creative juice on.
Keep this place going, folks! You have made it more than I expected. =D
I know it was my idea and I'm biased, but it really does sound like the majority is interested in the board piece redesign.
One thing we *could* do, is limit it to games from a certain manufacturer before a certain year. Honestly I would hope we could just say "use your own judgement" but I don't know if people would play nice. Obviously a game like Chutes and Ladders or Cooties would be ok. Warhammer 40k, or the He-Man edition of Uno, not ok. If you try to think of the spirit of "classic board games" like you would play as an eight year old with your parents and sibblings, that's the general idea that would keep this away from being a standard GIANT SPACE MARINE OMG BOOBS challenge. Or you could just have to post your idea in this thread and get the general consensus from Kub or someone who could be the judge of what would be appropriate or not, before starting.
What about limitations? I think 2,000 - 2,500 is a good poly limit, and one 512, one 256 is good texture. That gives plenty of room to play, but is low enough to still be managable as a side project.
Tabletop != boardgame. No warhammer, DnD, etc
need any more ideas? =]
actually no... there was some Sea World game I remember playing as a kid but I can't find any info on it. That and candyland where the only board games I could remember playing before finding pong in my aunt's attic.
Monopoly
Candyland
Clue
Chess
Don't Wake Daddy
Don't Break the Ice
Cooties
Parcheesi - [The Royal Game of India]
Battleship
Go for Broke
Risk
Mousetrap
Life!
Payday
Operation
Hungry Hungry Hippo
Scrabble
Sorry
Trouble
Pictionary
Stratego
Checkers
Backgammon
Barrel of Monkeys
Guess Who?
Not sure if Im going to be able to enter in this round but we'll see.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/11938
-DK =^..^=
I guess if no one has called it, ill do that schnauzer from monopoly
- BoBo
Does Warhammer Quest count as a board game? You played with pieces, on boards...
Or are we sticking with mainstream, "family" board games only?
so, no warhammer.
It wasn't a true tabletop game, but I guess similarly it wasn't a true boardgame.
Ah well