Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category

Last Night on Earth: Custom Game Boxes + Tuckboxes

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

last night on earth custom boxQuite similar to my Arkham Horror box but in this case the boxes take into account for all the main expansions released so far (Hero Pack One, Growing Hunger, Survival of the Fittest, & Zombies with Grave Weapons). All the components can fit into one big box given the insert is completely tossed but its not easy. The box will literally be filled to its limit with no space to spare. Because of this, I used both big boxes to keep components organized, secure and easy to get to and put away.

The first big box (base game) contains all the main components: card decks, scenarios, character sheets, and some of the more frequently used counters. These all go into the custom wooden insert. Construction is exactly the same as the Arkham Horror one with poplar sides and plywood bottom. The board pieces, soundtrack and rulebooks get layered on top of the insert.

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Last Night on Earth: Painting Minis using the Dip method

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

last night on earth minisFirst real venture into painting minis and ironically with ones that have their share of horror stories. Apparently the plastic molding on the Last Night on Earth minis reacted strangely with certain primers and paints causing them to become sticky for many. I didn’t have these problems although that’s probably thanks to following someone else’s successful tutorial on how they did it beforehand.

The tutorial can be seen here off BGG and the results in my opinion are quite good given the relative lack of skill required. Priming is straightforward and not even sure if its a necessary step. My spray coverage wasn’t complete on some of the minis and the paint seem to adhere fine to parts that were bare of primer.

Like in the tutorial, the acrylic paints were applied extremely rough with no details or shading of any kind, just block colors for individual sections. The Minwax Polyshades did wonders for taking these ugly paint jobs and turning them into something quite appealing.

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Tuckboxes for various other games

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

tuckboxesYet more tuckboxes I did for other boardgames (Claustrophobia, Forbidden Island, & Pandemic). Feel free to use however you want. These will also be up on BoardGameGeek as well.

Some things to consider though for anyone that plans to use these. I sized the Claustrophobia one wrong with the online generator but didn’t realize this until I had completed the design in Photoshop. Not wanting to redo it, I simply edited the sizing roughly by hand. Because of this, some of the inner flaps may be off slightly but this shouldn’t cause any problems. You may simply need to trim a bit more then where the lines tell you to do so.

For Forbidden Island, the Island Tile box expands outside of the size of regular paper so flaps 1 & 4 are cut-off. Simply just eyeball it and cut out a bit more past the line breaks. Also, the tuckboxes do add a bit of thickness to the tiles so it will be tougher to get it back in the plastic molding. Just get a dense object like a glass bottle to stretch out the compartment a bit and they should slide in fine.

Claustrophobia Tuckbox
Forbidden Island Tuckboxes
Pandemic Tuckboxes

Fresco: Tuckboxes

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

fresco tuckboxesThere aren’t too many components to Fresco, but having tuckboxes for the various tiles and expansion modules does help, as the stock box doesn’t have any sort of pre-built storage compartments to keep things organized. It’s just the one card-stock divider down the middle leaving those nice punch-outs to freely get tossed around.

Like with the Arkham Horror tuckboxes, these were designed within Photoshop with the use of the online Tuck-box Generator to make blank template pdfs to work off of.

For those in need of some Fresco organization, provided below as one convenient pdf. This includes tuckboxes for fresco, market, portrait, special blend, and bishop’s request tiles. Also up on BoardGameGeek as well.

Tuckboxes can be Downloaded Here.

Arkham Horror: Custom Game Box + Tuckboxes

Monday, February 14th, 2011

arkham horror custom boxA simple yet much more practical box then the one FFG packages with the base game. Designed roughly to accommodate just the base game components many of which, I also did custom tuck-boxes for utilizing some of the game’s artwork.

The box itself is built from pieces of poplar finished with Feed’n Wax and pva glue that fits snugly into the original cardboard box. Tuck-boxes were done in Photoshop with the help of the online Tuck-box Generator and a handy scanner.

All the game pieces such as various tokens, money, stamina, and sanity markers fit into its own smaller box that pulls out so it can be placed closer to the actual gameplay.

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Web Design: JaniceL.com

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

janicel.comWanting something a bit more sleeker and minimal, Janice asked me to redo the design of her website. The old version which I had done was done around the aesthetic of her published work Kerotakis utilizing the illustrations from the work itself. The design reflected this, with a more harsh and grunge-like layout made up of grids, alchemical symbols and scribblings.

The updated design aims to be less specific and more functional. A very simple two column layout boxed out yet still very aesthetically pleasing. For the most part, black/white with green for the links and background. Its also all done in serif fonts which I hardly ever do but it was requested and turned out quite nicely in my opinion.

JaniceL.com can be visited here.

Web Design: Cinémezzo

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

CInemezzoAdam Cook had expressed interest in doing a Wordpress install and migrating off the now retired The Bronze. Not much was asked in terms of design parameters, simply that he wanted something black/white and ultra minimalistic. Instead of doing a design completely from scratch we decided on utilizing the ever so popular thematic framework and one of its more popular child themes Neutica+.

For the most part, he wanted the theme as-is so no major changes were done to the overall design. Dropped in a logo and slightly tweaked the header for social buttons and a sidebar nav. Most of the other implementations were done through premade plugins such as the link nudging. Overall its a good example of how one can achieve a very professional and unique design without a large knowledge for code.

Cinémezzo can be viewed/read here.


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