My son is a railfan, to put things mildly. I've thought for awhile about creating a custom livery for him, but hadn't gotten around to it. Well, the other day I sketched out a concept and fired up Inkscape. After a few tweaks here and there, I finally had a logo/livery he liked. Rail Livery … Continue reading Rail Livery
A while back I tinkered was tinkering with some concepts for blood type and allergy tabs often seen on military combat uniforms. One concept I has was a hexagonal modular concept, where each component was its own patch that aligned with others. Here's a conceptualization of the idea with rank, rate (navy job), blood type, … Continue reading Hex Rank Concept
Normal life has kept me busy of late. However, I did experiment with a way to honor the traditional Goita tile. But instead of just creating a copy of the shape and fitting all the elements in it (aka tile on a card), I went with a little more subtle, but still apparent approach. Subtle … Continue reading Goita (ごいた) – More design adjustments
Decided to test out the prototype deck while visiting family, especially since my wife's family is big on games. After reading through the directions, we gave it a try and it turned out to be a fairly quick and fun game. The directions do make it sounds somewhat daunting, but we think some of that … Continue reading Goita (ごいた) – Testing and Revisions
The prototype decks arrived from MPC. Overall, not bad. I did notice some spots where I will need to revise the design though. Pawn and score tokens Information cards Poker and mini card comparison These will be distinguishable from future versions for a few reasons. First, the MPC cards a little wider than I had … Continue reading Goita (ごいた) – Prototypes Arrived
I just ordered 3 prototype decks for Goita (ごいた). Learned a few things in the process today as well. The printer's templates don't exactly match their online deck builder, so I had to make some adjustments on the files, including some tweaks to the score tokens. Also learned it's much cheaper to use image files … Continue reading Goita (ごいた) – Prototypes
Worked out of the basics of the deck. I decided to use the mini card size from PrintNinja as the basis, which is 1.65"x2.5" (still roughly half a Poker card). As of now, the deck will be 54 cards (32 tiles, 4 information cards, and 18 score tokens). The main card, or tiles, didn't change … Continue reading Goita (ごいた) – Deck Concept
The Goita (ごいた) deck is going well. Worked on a back design, with a change in card size (mini cards versus micro). Mini cards are roughly half the size of a poker card (cut across the narrow part), with the exact size varying between printers. Switching to the micro size might not be difficult, using … Continue reading More Goita (ごいた) Work
My family is a frequent backer on Kickstarter, having helped fund many playing cards decks and a few games. A recent backing (Junior Hanafuda) got me thinking about more Asian-style playing cards. We have a Hanafuda deck I picked up a Korean grocery once, and I started thinking about adapting parts of the Bagua deck … Continue reading GOITA (new card project)
You often hear about 'operators'...mostly wannabes. In the military, there are many nicknames for them depending on where they are. One of them is "chairborne ranger," a play on "airborne ranger." I recently picked up a couple of "chairborne ranger" patches to add to my collection. It also sparked a though about a naval version … Continue reading Yeah, I operate… (naval version)
