I got me a scolding for using Internet for non-work purposes. This means my online time has been drastically reduced. I get maybe an hour in the morning and whatever I can spare in the evening in between dinner, homework and other socializin'. I haven't touched my music equipment at all in forever.
I mean, I was already pretty much absent from a lot of online chatter due to school, but now I'll be a rumor of a trace of a wisp on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea.
My latest puzzle in game developness -- currently game is in my good favor -- is the map and weighing 'cool and useful' vs. 'WTF do we do with it in between games?' If you have a dedicated game table, no prob. But what if you eat dinner at that table? I don't want the game to require a digital camera.
Some options include numbering or naming tiles. Or using an actual folding map instead of tiles, but that's lower on the cool factor. Or maybe having a sheet on which you draw a mini version of the map for record keeping, but that sounds like work. What to do... I dunno yet. Suggestions are welcome.
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I'm working on a similar problem (well, basically, I stole your idea and it has the same problem) so when you figure it out, let me know, so I can steal that, too.
My best plan was -- number the tiles, have a little sheet to write down the numbers on. It makes re-assembly about a 10 minute task or so.
That's still pretty lame, though.
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--Ben
Hi Matt, you're using a hex map, right?
Number by columns, counting from bottom up (1-3 = 1st column, 3rd hex) and, if you want to keep record keeping from being insane, divvy up the keeping for each player- Joe !-4th column, Tim 5-8th column, etc.
Chris
Inspired by Shadow Wars, I'm using staggered squares. It's easier to cut them out.
One solution I came up with this morning, which would sacrifice some creativity, is to provide the map as an actual pre-assembled map, with named sectors and stuff. That has its own lameness problem.
Ben, what you suggest above is about as far as I've gotten as well.
Okay I would suggest a map grid to place the shit on. Used to play a lot of Twilight Imperium and what we did was get some poster board, print up a space scape and glue it to the posterboard. Then we gridded out the hexes and gave them alpha-numeric coordinates. It added a nice touch and we started giving them "sector names" during play (I'm moving my fleet into the Alpha Sector, system 2). This way we could record the locations of the hex pieces on the map with ease and rebuild it when we played again. You may want to include a fold out map (which are always cool) plus the chits.
Hey Matt,
do the planets etc ever have to move again? You could just have folks tape or glue them to a piece of paper. You could use multiple 8 1/2 by elevenses if it needed to be bigger, with things sticking off the side or what not if need be.
Since people can always download the counters & print them out again, making them into arts & crafts shouldn't be a problem.
Or you could have people tape them to popsicle sticks & have planetary puppetage--like in The Big Night. Steal from Alan!
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