Comments on: Vanity Exposed http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2009/01/08/game-tangent/vanity-exposed/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: J C Lawrence http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2009/01/08/game-tangent/vanity-exposed/comment-page-1/#comment-200 J C Lawrence Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:48:09 +0000 http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/?p=284#comment-200 <p>Yes, those are my Inkscape scribbles. Thanks. It has always been a core goal to make the maps as visually obvious as possible. Moving from the line art (spirals and stars) to simple colour fills for terrain was a big step forward there (and a lot easier to maintain and edit). As regards historical and thematic details, I've asked the artist that is working on the maps to look at making the city art for each city unique and thematically tied to that Real World location. We'll see what he comes up with. Age of Steam: Wales also uses the welsh names for all the Welsh locations and the English names for the English locations (there's a pronunciation guide in the rules).</p> Yes, those are my Inkscape scribbles. Thanks. It has always been a core goal to make the maps as visually obvious as possible. Moving from the line art (spirals and stars) to simple colour fills for terrain was a big step forward there (and a lot easier to maintain and edit). As regards historical and thematic details, I’ve asked the artist that is working on the maps to look at making the city art for each city unique and thematically tied to that Real World location. We’ll see what he comes up with. Age of Steam: Wales also uses the welsh names for all the Welsh locations and the English names for the English locations (there’s a pronunciation guide in the rules).

]]> By: photocurio http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/2009/01/08/game-tangent/vanity-exposed/comment-page-1/#comment-199 photocurio Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:32:29 +0000 http://kanga.nu/~claw/blog/?p=284#comment-199 <p>I assume the posted maps are your "inkscape scribbles". Actually, they are very close to my personal ideal for game maps: clear information design. Perhaps some historical or geographical detail would improve them.. perhaps not. I would happily play them as is.</p> <p>I do not like added decorative textures on hex-style maps much. For me, Queen's very pretty Chicago Express board is not an easy to play design.</p> I assume the posted maps are your “inkscape scribbles”. Actually, they are very close to my personal ideal for game maps: clear information design. Perhaps some historical or geographical detail would improve them.. perhaps not. I would happily play them as is.

I do not like added decorative textures on hex-style maps much. For me, Queen’s very pretty Chicago Express board is not an easy to play design.

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