Monday, 1 August 2011
Make: 3D Dungeon Tiles Pt 1 - The Design
I've designed and built plenty of 2D tiles before, but never in 3D with walls and doors. The biggest change has been to scale everything up to a 1.5" grid as a 1" grid became too cramped and play broke down. Another inspiration was the fantastic drakkon boardgame which has a couple of fun actions like the Rotate a Room and Floating Room which I thought would be nice to have in a dungeon.
This all percolated into an embryonic design of a 6" square standard tile with a 4x4 grid 1 inch high walls with removable wall/door/feature sections which I drew out in sketchup.
In Part Two I'll be pulling out the foamcore and starting to cut.
Monday, 25 July 2011
Movie Watch: Eyeborgs
Adrian Paul (Highlander TV Series) and Danny Trejo (Machete) star in this cautionary tale of technology gone too far set in a near future Chicago.
The eyeborgs of the title are mobile surveillance cameras tasked with the surveillance of society for the Department of Homeland Security, but have they been compromised and if so, by whom? Gunner Reynolds (Adrian Paul) a DHS agent discovers the truth about the real nature of the eyeborgs design.
If you can get past the distinctly "TV Movie" CGI eyeborgs which are nicely modeled but poorly composited, there's a good plot in there and certainly something that hasn't been seen before. The characters, and perhaps Paul's acting, are a little one dimensional but passable and Danny Trejo has the most lines I've ever heard him speak in one movie.
A solid 4 out of 5 for the story and a 3 out of 5 for the CGI.
Friday, 22 July 2011
Beast of the Week: Hydrothermal Worm
Nature proves yet again that it can evolve animals which would fit quite nicely into any RPG scenario. Meet...
The Hydro Thermal Worm
This photo was taken by Philippe Crassous at FEI (makers of Electron Scanning Microscopes).
I think that this is a suitable image for my 100th post
Thursday, 21 July 2011
...meet Leonard of Quirm
I'm beginning to feel a bit like Leonard of Quirm, too many projects and not enough time to finish them...