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Making Your Own Board/Card Games?
wrinkledshirt writes "I've been growing interested in creating my own set of board games, and I was wondering if people knew of good resources for how to go about doing this? I'd love to know information on good places to get cards printed, manuals printed, plastic pieces manufactured, boards created, that sort of thing. Many companies online offer to do all of these things for you, but I'm considering doing it all separately in order to cut costs. Since I've never done this before, I'm also wondering about sources that'll give you good ideas to consider as well as gameplay pitfalls to avoid. I know google is my friend, but I'm also wondering about people's experiences in trying to do this stuff on their own...?"
1. Get a popular show
2. Have a popular character on the show make up some rules for a game (they don't need to make sense)
3. Have determined fans make up rules that fit the above specified rules, yet provide some logical game play
4. You now have your own card game
I've had an idea for a few years I'm getting ready to set up:
Have a board in which people move their pieces (say.. a hat, train, etc) around a board with street names. Let the users buy the squares (or "properties") and build houses and hotels on them. If another user lands on the property then the owner can charge rent. Ohh... this just popped into my head, have a corner square labelled "GO" and give each user $200 when they pass it.
I'm going to be a fucking millionaire over this one!
Trolling is a art,
- a guy made a USB menorah
- a guy made a web interface to 4,000 xmas lights and a rotating camera w/ pan & zoom
- guys are making spacecraft in garages by hand for xprize
- ??? [and etc]
And you are telling me you can't print your own manual and make your own little plastic figures? SHAME ON YOU!Tom: The guy made a million dollars! Y'know, I had an idea like that once.
Peter: Really? What was it, Tom?
Tom: Well, all right. It was a Jump to Conclusions mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to.
Michael: That is the worse idea I've ever heard in my life, Tom.
Samir: Yes, it is horrible.
Tom: Ah, look. I, I gotta get outta here. I'll see you guys later, if I still have a job.
*snicker*
The name of the game is 1000 Blank White Cards. Now, maybe its just as much fun with green cards, but that would be a completely different game :)
Is that the deluxe version of "52 card pickup"?
I never much cared for that game....
1 - Buy the exclusive right for a Harry Potter board game for $500M to J.K.Rowling's publisher .
2 - Replace the street names in Monopoly with Potter stuff
3 - Have it manufactured by 12 years olds in the Phillipines (their small hands are good at grabbing the small game pieces and put them in the box)
4 - Profit.
I LOVE capitalism.
Hahaha
What a game that would be
i) Player would say something about the news
ii) Next Player would say the same thing
iii) Next Player would scream "FIRST POST FAGGORTZ!!!1!111!!!"
iv) Players would then alternate between incredibly biased views on the subject, unrelated garbage or running jokes.
v) At the end of each round, the players take turns patting each other on the backs and giving themselves imaginary ranking points, and then calling each other morons.
vi) The first player to get hired to do so in real life wins.
You think I don't see your Racism? Think again.
You misspelled trivial.