Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Yeah, there's tons of boobies and dong. It's funny. They also do this thing with the crowd shots where they cut and paste the same 20 extras who are cheering/jeering wildly and fill up an arena with them. You can totally see its the same group of boobs n people.
Man, I remember someone talking about this. Just saw Spartacus: Gods of the arena, a prequel to blood and sand. Definitely pioneers the amount of nudity and soft core porn in a TV series show. Can't wait to watch season 2
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If record execs got their hands on The Beatles today


10 Director's cuts that completely changed the ending of a movie

What happened to Hitler's body?

People who became nouns


Cool disneyland picture

The Office recut as an 80's sitcom
Check out this cool free browser MMORPG: Realm of the Mad God
Some quick old-school fun.

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Don't know anyone at Mickey-Dees, random! :)

Portal 2 was fantastic. Some of those co-op levels were really awesome. I'm going to have to start checking out some of the custom made maps now and find some gems. I guess there are already some good ones.

In Age of Conan as Torgolicious. It's some pretty standard-ass MMORPG, but might be fun with a homiebarian to roll around with. I think the first portion is single player until you're out of the tutorial?

2 Nights off, praise Crom! Gonna sleep now then like play some games n shit. Ordered the Rules Compendium for 4e D&D cause I'm THIS close to going to real-life game sessions, weird! Will post trip reports.
Anyone know anyone in the Mcdonalds purchasing dept? longshot but thought I'd pop it out there.

Monday, July 04, 2011

Finally finished the Portal 2 co-op campaign with Rude troday! Good stuff, but holy crap was that last chapter hard. Took us like two hours I think. Tons of fun, thanks man. Now onward to Magicka and Left 4 Deader!

I picked up Alpha Protocol for $5 which was the one thing I really wanted out of this sale. Supposed to be a sort of diamond in the rough, spy shooter with many different choices and paths through it. Looking forward to trying it out. I also downloaded Age of Conan (free to play MMO) and looked at the character creation for three seconds. Based on that I'd say it's a fine game! It's funny, how they get you is only like half the classes are free, and the others you get either a la carte or by upgrading to a premium account. So the kind of Slaytanic class I thought looked cool isn't available. Oh well, it's free. Probably will create a Stygian Demonologist or something.

(To give them some credit, Barbarian is one of the free classes.)

After a long gap, I'm back to logging games on the game spreadsheet! Since it seems like there's lots of board gaming going on, may I suggest you log yours as well? I may be the only one but I honestly find it fun to see what other people are playing.

peace out bros
Last post for the night, promise! One idea for an instant type card or event-specific would have to be something like "attack of oppurtunity". I just love that concept from Blood Bowl (when you move into/out of someone's tackle zone) and old D&D. So if I move away from Johnny, then if he has that card, he can do an attack? I dunno. I would just love to get something like that in there. I still don't know how we're handling luck. Is their a die or is it something on the cards?
Been fun thinking about making games :) Imagine if we end up with a pretty cool system that's fun, then we could do like different themed sets that use a modified version of those same rules. Then do a kickstarter to make some dough to print them up ;).

There's a site called Artscow where you can have them print custom card decks. On BGG there's a bunch of games that use that service that look interesting. You basically create an image gallery of your cards, then people buy that set. Think it'd be cool for some protype decks or something (although regular printer paper would do the trick too, huh) but in the end, you'd prolly wanna use a real printer and get bulk prices.

Artscow has a sale right now (until 7-7-11) that if you use code 299PLYCRD at checkout, you can get a custom deck shipped free for $2.99. Only works for the regular decks (so basically ones with 1 customized side, other side generic) but there's some games people made using that. I grabbed a Decktet deck, mostly to check the quality. Decktet I guess is made in a way that you can play a bunch of different games with them. Looks neat. :) So you got a couple days to snag one up too. Here's their artscow link: LINK

Sunday, July 03, 2011

Back to Card Game, RE: location/proximity stuff. While with Bang, it makes sense that you play off of where everyone is sitting. After the first round, in a gladiator game, you'd think there would be more movement between combatants. So I was thinking, maybe there are 2 character cards for each character. One that you keep in front of you that has stats/hp and that you play weapons on and then one in the center of the table that gets moved around while everyone is fighting each other. Example, Rudy sidesteps Jons attack, putting Erick between himself and Jon, but now exposing himself to Jonny who was 2 ppl away before. I dunno. That might get weird, but just trying to think how to represent that stuff without going all mini/grid based. Keep it abstract but still visually clear enough that at a glance you know who your biggest threats are, etc.
Fluxx :(

How to play Fluxx

I've never played it but this video bums me out. What elements of this game do you like Erik?
It might be some kind of allergy/sinus thing, because other than gnarly horrible post nasal drip and stuff nose, I don't feel anything cold-like. I hope it's some bullshit like that. I'm miserable! :(

Snagged you Magicka bJorn. It's a funny little game, we'll give it a whirl post-portal 2.

Can't wait to try out your game Johnny! Let's maybe hang out one of these coming weekends and we can try your game and maybe whatever we've got with Glad-He-Ate-Her ;) ... (Working Title)

Saturday, July 02, 2011

Magika does look pretty cool and got a kick off of the video they had on their homesite.

I agree with rude (hope youre feeling better!), think it'll be better with no board, and having the seats as position. aAn idea that can change the positions is if everyone is assigned a position #, example 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5 (5 players) and 1 can only attack positions 5 and 2, and cards can change positions on players. Thats just an idea, to make positions moveable while gladiators manuever with cards rather than "static" spots without having to get up and switch chairs.

On the cards, to facilitate combo manuevers and team assists, we can use CC's idea of having 2 actions on a card. 1 Instant action and another primary action. Typically the primary action is more powerful, but can only be played during a players turn. While the secondary action are instants played out of turn, usually assists, blocks, attk/def modifiers, etc. That way, you'll also save alot on the # of cards in the deck. Just a thought.

BTW i'm done with my game. I'd like to try it out sometimes! It looks fun, BUT i'm sure thats just my enthusiasm talking or my ass.