Last Day of Class

Whats Due:

Project 1 - Hand in your Journal and Game Reviews by the end of class on friday. You need to have a total of 26 Game Reviews.


Project 4 - Tabletop game mockup. Your game needs to be in playable form by the beginning of class on friday. You need to have all your pieces, dice, cards and boards printed, cut and assembled. You need to have a draft set of your rules ready and the game should be playable on a "beta' level. You also need to fill out a game review for your game.



Today:

9:30am - 1:30pm - Play your games, refine your rules

1:30pm - 2:00pm - Print your final rules, Take Photos of your game.

2:00pm - Present your games, eat food

In class Thur Jan 21th

Work on your games
- Create and print cards
- Create and print game boards
- Create and print Dice
- Create and print Game pieces



Play games
- Play mock ups of your games
- Play Stratego 
- Games you may have missed

In class Tue Jan 19th

RPGs (Role Playing Games)

- Talking about "Roles" in games. What role do players play in your game?

- Tracking Stats

- General to Specific?

For your Game!
- how many game pieces & dice do you require and what  colors do they need to be printed in. (the dice you need might just be regular dice)

- basic mockup of your game board

- how many cards do you need and what does each card type represent




Work on your games




Play Games
Dungeon 
Stratego
Catan




For Thursday
- Create a Dungeons and Dragons Character. Have it written out, ready for class on thursday.

- Have a playable mock-up of your game ready. This includes:
      - a basic list of rules
      - enough cards to try out a round or two
      - a basic version of a board that can be used for play

- You should also be collecting images and information for your game. This includes imagery for your theme, questions and answers for trivia, images for cards and dice, ect......
- You should be thinking about the design for game cards and game boards. Create a template to work from in photoshop.

- You should be trying to play your game in your head while keeping notes in your journal. Go through a round, what are the steps in each round? What problems do you encounter? How long does a round take? What is the strategic part of the round? What is the luck part of the round?

In class mon Jan 18th

Due Today
1) For your Game!
- details on the amount of game pieces & dice you require and their colors. (3d printed or regular dice)
- basic mockup of you game board
- a starting point for the amount of cards you may need and what each card type represents


2) Project 3 (game piece) is due as a '.svg' file labeled with your first name. i.e... joe.svg, due at the beginning of class

3) Assignment 3 (dice) is due as a printed object at the beginning of class




Looking at board games!
*Design is key

Questions to ask:
- what does the game board do for the game?

- is the board integrated into the theme by the way it works in game play or is it just designed to present a theme?

- is the game board just a count down?





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Play Games

Board Games

Stratego 2 player

Dungeon 2-8

Game of Real Life 2-6

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For Tuesday:
1) Learn rules for Catan

2) Work on creating pieces, cards, dice and game boards four your games
3) Start thinking about rules for your game

In class Fri Jan 15th

Using the Makerbots

Safety Precautions
1) Never put your hand in the print area when the printer is  printing! The printhead is very hot and moves quickly.
2) Don't wear loose clothing near the printer while it is printing.
2) Do not sand PLA plastic with out a proper respirator. The dust is harmful to your lungs. 

Makerbot Replicator 2.1
1) How to turn it on
2) Navigating the menu with the touch pad
3) Loading and Unloading filament
- Follow the on screen directions
- Make sure to always hold the filament with one hand!
4) Taking an object of the print bed



Working on your game.
You need to be making a mockup of your game. Play with board designs, card text, and dice. Create enough parts to test the game. Track game rules and issues that come up. 




Play Games 
- Werewolf
- Mille Bornes - rules

- Pixel Glory - rules

- Boss Monster - rules

For next week:

Board Games

Monday:

Stratego 2 player

Dungeon 2-8

Game of Real Life 2-6

Tuesday:

Catan 3-6

RPG introduction

Wednesday 

RPG - Character Creation

Thursday:

RPG - Adventure

Play your games

Friday:

Anachronism 2 player

Play your games

In class Thur Jan 14th

What is your game?

The easy way to get images on your dice!

1) Use Photoshop to:

1a) make the image black and white using "Threshold" 

1b) change the "Image Size" to 300 pixels on the longest side

1c) "Save As" a jpeg with your name one it.

2) send it to Joe for processing into an STL

Making 3D game pieces

- Same as making a dice except for with multiple pieces being put together.

- Make sure parts are touching if not embedded into each other a little

- Export 3D as an STL . Choose the "Fine" and "Combine Objects" options!

How to use Makerware

Prepare for Printing:

Rafts: used to make a small island for your model to be built on. 

Supports: hold up areas of a model that are unprintable otherwise.

* no long rises 

* 45 degree angle or higher

Shells: Outside layers of a model.

Infill: Percent of the interior of a 3d model that is filled with plastic.

Layer Height: layer thickness of each printed layer of plastic.

* Low Resolution (Faster*) is the best choice for most models

Preparing your 3d models for printing

1) open Makerware

2) Click on 'Prepare' and "Add File" to import your .STL's to the print bed

3) Use the 'Move' tool to separate the models from each other

* remember any models that are touching will be printed as a single piece

4) Use the 'Scale' too to resize the 3d models to the proper size

a- scale the piece to the proper hight and width. Set the model at the correct hight and adjust for the width if necessary.

5) Use 'Save to Library' to save your .Thing file to the desktop 

6) Change your 'Settings'

For Game Pieces 

Resolution - Low(Faster)Infill - 10%# of Shells - 3Layer Height - .30 mm

For Dice 

Resolution - Low(Faster)Infill - 45%# of Shells - 2Layer Height - .30 mm

7) Export Print File or Save Your File

- Take a screen shot of the Export Info and keep it with your .x3g file. You will hand in both to me.

8) Show Joe your .stl, .thing, .x3g & Export Info screen shot to be approved for printing. Your files should be labeled with your first name and last initial ie.. joevs.thing

We have 3 Makerbots. Two Replicator 2's and a Replicator Mini.

Replicator Mini:

Print Bed Size 3.9" L x 3.9" W x 4.9" H

To print: 

1) Save your file as a .Thing set up for the Replicator Mini. 

2) Use your USB thumb drive to transfer your file to the iMac in the FabLab

3) Open your file in Makerware and print to the Replicator Mini

Replicator 2.1:

Print Bed Size 11.2" L x 6" W x 6" H

To print: 

1) Export your file as a .x3g. (Make sure it is set up for the Replicator 2)

2) Use the SD card reader to transfer your file to the SD card for the printer

3) Insert the SD card into the printer and use the menu on the front panel to print the file

Replicator 2.2:

Print Bed Size 11.2" L x 6" W x 6" H

To print: 

1) Save your file(s) as a .stl

2) Use your USB thumb drive to transfer your file to the Mac laptop in the FabLab

3) Open your file in Makerware, Set up your file for printing and print to the Replicator 2

PLA Color Choices (some colors can only be printed on some printers)

- Red

- Yellow

- Forest Green

- Bright Blue

- Dark Blue

- Purple

- Black

- Grey

- Brown

- Khaki

- Drab Green

Special Request 

- Gold Translucent

- Sparkly Translucent Dark Blue

- Silver

- Neon Green

- Neon Orange

- Neon Pink

Pick a color that is important to your overall ideology for the game's design! 

     
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Play card games

- Star Munchkin - rules

- Zombie Fluxx - rules

- Catch up on any games you may have missed!

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For Friday

Learn games for Friday

- Mille Bornes - rules

- Pixel Glory - rules

- Boss Monster - rules

Ready Chapters from the Book

Refine your Game outline

In class Tue Jan 12th

Critique Project 2


Project 3 Assigned


Making a custom Dice in 123D design.
1) Get a cube
2) Round the edges (if you want)
3) Extrude image or text to be used for dice sides
4) Subtract extrusions from dice sides



Review Assignment #2




Review Joe's Game
Custom Card Game 

Theme
- Giant monster destroying a city

Game Mechanics

- Dice Rolling

- Modular Board

- Set Collection

- Memory

Exceptions

- Monsters can upgrade for new attacks and to fight each other

Goal
- collect the most element points by destroying city blocks, Military Defense Units (MDUs) and defeating the opponents monster

Other Info

- 2 player
- 2 decks of cards 
- 30-40 min play time



Things I like:
- Card collection to track points
- Card flipping to track damage to City Locations
- MDU cards interaction with City Locations
- The game is color coded. 'Elements' and 'Monsters' are based on the color wheel. Opposites effect each other. 

Things I don't like:
- Need to track life points with pen and paper
- Monster Battles


Rules





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Play games
- Uno
- Werewolf

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For Thursdays Class

1) Read Chapters


2) Learn Games

- Zombie Fluxx

- Star Munchkin

3) Write up an outline for your game

In class Mon Jan 11th

Whats Due Today!


Hand in Project 1 & Assignment 1 at the beginning of class.

(Put your psd's in a Folder labeled with your name on it and hand it in on your USB thumb drive.)

Assignment 2.  Pick a game you know well and like. Then create an  alteration/expansion to the game by altering/adding rules and creating new exceptions. Write down your alterations in your Journal ready for presentation on monday!

What is 3d Printing
- the printing of virtual objects through an additive process







3D printing and design - day 1
1)Steps in 3d Printing


Get or Create a 3d Model

3d file Types
.stl - like the JPEG of the 3d world, almost universal file format
.obj - slightly less universal 3d file format
.mix - Meshmixer's file format
.thing - Makerware's file format (& Replicator Mini)
.x3g - Replicator 2 file Format


Get
- 3d Scan/3d Imaging Apps
3d Image capturing Apps: 123D Catch or Caperture

- Download a model
thingiverse.com or redpah.com


Create
- Create a model using a 3d software programs or 3d Apps
Apps (Free)
- Printshop
- 123D Sculpt
- 123D Design
- 123D Creature


Software (Free)
- Meshmixer
- 123D Design
- 123D Make
- Rhinoceros
- Sculptris
- MatterControl ($10)
- Sketchup



Modify your 3d Model
Meshmixer
123D Design
123D Make
Makerware
- Scale, Turn your 3d model
- you can add models together on the print platform







123D Design
Main Menu
- New 
- Open
- Save
- Import
- Export
- Exit

Undo/Redo

Primitives
Sketch
Construct
Modify
Pattern
Grouping
Combine
Measure
Text

Material 
Help

Assignment 3 assigned
Create one custom dice using 123D Design. The dice should be 15mm to 25mm in size. 

Due Printed Monday the 18th 





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Play Games
- Poker (5 card draw, 7 card stud)
- Cards Against Humanity (Crabs Adjust Humidity)
- Uno (Spiderman Uno)


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For Tuesday 

1) Learn Tuesday's Card games
- Werewolf 
- 
- 

2) Ready Chapters ?????


3) Learn the basics of Autodesk 123D design
Download the program and check out the how to videos on their Youtube channel





Work on Projects & Assignments

In class Fri Jan 8th

Photoshop Day 3

Advanced Selections

- Polygon Laso, Magnetic Laso

- Adding too and Subtracting from selections

- Single Marquee 

- The Clone Stamp

-- These are 2 part tools. Hold down 'Option' while clicking on the area you wish to copy. Move to where you want to place the cloned visual data and click and hold to draw.

-- Blend Mode / Opacity

-- Air Brush / Flow

-- Aligned

-- Sample (Layer)

Image Adjustments

- Color Adjustments

-- Histogram

-- Levels

- Color Correction

Advanced Layer controls

Transforming a Layer

- Edit —> Transform —>

Layer Styles

Creating a Group.

Advanced Layout in Photoshop

*Single Row Marquee tool - good for making cut lines!

Printing in Photoshop

- Choose a Printer

- Print Settings

--- Paper Size

--- Layout and other Options

--- Making a PDF from the print menu

- Layout - Horizontal & Vertical

- Color Management - controls wether printer or photoshop handles color correction

--- Check out what happens when I check "Match Print Colors"

- Position and Size - resize and change the position of a design

- Printing Marks - registration and crop marks for layout and cutout

--- Unprintable Border



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Start generating game ideas?

- What is the 'Theme'?

- What 'Game Mechanics' are you going to use?

- How many players do you want to be able to play?

- What age group is the game for?

- How long do you want the game to take?

- What do you need to print in 2d?

- What do you need to print in 3d?




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Play Games

- Pass the Pigs
- Mars Attacks, 10  min takedown
- Frenzy
- Zombie Dice w/Expansion

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For Monday 

1) Learn Monday's Card games
- Poker (5 card draw, 7 card stud)
- Cards Against Humanity (Crabs Adjust Humidity)
- Uno (Spiderman Uno)

2) Learn the basics of Autodesk 123D design
Download the program and check out the how to videos on their Youtube channel


Whats Due Monday Jan 11th at the beginning of class.



Project 2 & Assignment 1

(Put your images in a Folder labeled with your name on it and hand it in on your USB thumb drive.)

Assignment 2.  Pick a game you know well and like. Then create an  alteration/expansion to the game by altering/adding rules and creating new exceptions. Write down your alterations in your Journal ready for presentation on monday!

- Examples... Zombie Dice, Spiderman Uno, 10,000 with zombies.



Work on Projects & Assignments

In class Thur Jan 7th

Todays games:

Catan Dice - 2007, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

Bowling Dice - 1985?, 1-10 players, PT 10 min +/-

Poker Dice - year ???, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

Cosmic Wimpout - 1975, 2-12 players, PT 20 min +/-

Zombie Dice with Expansion set

Hipster Dice - 2015, 2-20 players, PT 30 min +/-







Lets take a look at examples of Cards from Card Games through out history.

Photoshop Day 3

Advanced Selections

- Polygon Laso, Magnetic Laso

- Adding too and Subtracting from selections

- Single Marquee 

- The Clone Stamp

-- These are 2 part tools. Hold down 'Option' while clicking on the area you wish to copy. Move to where you want to place the cloned visual data and click and hold to draw.

-- Blend Mode / Opacity

-- Air Brush / Flow

-- Aligned

-- Sample (Layer)

Image Adjustments

- Color Adjustments

-- Histogram

-- Levels

- Color Correction

Whats Due
Hand in Assignment 1 by the end of class today! Put your images in a Folder labeled with your name on it and hand it in on your USB thumb drive.


Project 1 Due Monday Jan 11th at the beginning of class.


Assignment 2.  Pick a game you know well and like. Then create an  alteration/expansion to the game by altering/adding rules and creating new exceptions.
- Examples... Zombie Dice, Spiderman Uno, 10,000 with zombies.

Work on Projects

Learn Fridays games: (make yourself familiar with the games tonight!)

- Pass the Pigs (rules)

- Mars Attacks, 10 min Takedown (rules)

- Frenzy (info)

note* we will also have a chance to play any games you might have missed.

In class Tue Jan 5th

Photoshop Day 2

Setting Preferences
Photoshop --> Preferences --> General

Navigation

- Hand tool/Hand Rotate Tool

- Zoom tool

- Change Screen Mode

Color Picker

- Foreground/Background Color

- Eye-dropper tool

Drawing Tools

- Pencil/Paint Brush

—- Color Replacement Tool/Mixer Brush

- Paint Bucket/Gradient

- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser

- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge

—- Depth of Field - How much of the image is in focus in front of and behind the image

- Burn/Dodge/Sponge

Text Tools

- Horizontal Type Tool/Vertical Type Tool

- Horizontal Type Mask Tool/Vertical Type Mask Tool

Selection Tools (they define a workable area)

- Square/Circular Selection Tools

- Move Tool

- Laso/Polygon Laso/Magnetic Laso

— Tolerance

- Magic Wand/Quick Selection Tool

- Crop Tool

Layers

- Making Layers

--- New Layer

--- Cut/Copy/ Paste

--- Move Tool

--- Duplicate a Layer

- Delete Layer

- Layer Visibility

- Moving a Layer

- Opacity

- Modes

- Locking 

Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop
1) paper size
2) single or multiple designs on the page?

in Photoshop
3) size and resolution
4) define print area 
* Offset press - requires cut lines, a bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer -  1/4"on all sides
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer -  1/4"on all sides
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the Middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately, as a .psd 
ex 3.5_card_Template.psd



Walk Through. Creating 1.5"x2" mini cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper.




Get your cards printed professionally:
makeplayingcards.com



Assign Projects and Assignments






Understand and Discuss Games

- What are the basics: # of players, Game Duartion, Difficulty, Age Group, Year Created?

- What is the Theme?

- What are the Game Mechanics?

- What are the Roles players play?

- What Category does it fit into?

- What are the Exceptions
- Describe your Experience playing the game ?

- Strategy to Luck Scale

Dice Games

Todays games:

- Dungeon Roll - 2013, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Martian Dice - 2011, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Ninja Dice - 2013, 2-5 players, PT 30 min +/-

- Zombie Dice + Double Feature Expansion - 2010, 2-12 players, PT 15 min +/-

What you need for the class:

• Downloadable Book on Amazon
• Journal / Sketchbook
• A Board Game

Work on Assignments

Learn Thursdays games: (make yourself familiar with the games tonight!)

- Catan Dice - 2007, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Bowling Dice - 1985?, 1-10 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Poker Dice - year ???, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-
- Cosmic Wimpout - 1975, 2-12 players, PT 

Welcome Day 1

Intro to the class

*What is this class about?
*Syllabus
*What kind of games are we making?
*What do you need for the class?

• Downloadable Book on Amazon
• Journal / Sketchbook
• A Board Game

How to use a Mac

Turning on the Mac
- Login
- Restart
- Shutdown

The Finder (navigating the Mac)
- Loging In
- The Desktop
- Main Hard Drive
- Applications
- the Dock

- Creating a New Folder

- Deleting Files & Folders
-- Emptying the Trash

- Cut/Copy/Past
- Network Drive - lab-drive.local

USB Thumbdrives
- Where to plug it in
- Ejecting your drive

Web Browsers on the Mac
- Safari
- Chrome




Understand and Discuss Games

- What are the basics: # of players, Game Duartion, Difficulty, Age Group, Year Created?

- What is the Theme?

- What are the Game Mechanics?

- What are the Roles players play?

- What Category does it fit into?

- What are the Exceptions
- Describe your Experience playing the game ?

Dice Games

Todays games:

- Yahtzee - 1956, 2-10 players, PT 30 min +/-

- LCR - 1983, 3-12 players, PT 20 min +/-

- 10,000 - rules - year ???, 2-8 players, PT 45min +/-

- Skulls - 1981, 2-8 players, PT 15 min +/-

Tomorrow & Thursdays games: (make yourself familiar with the games tonight!)

- Dungeon Roll - 2013, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Martian Dice - 2011, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Ninja Dice - 2013, 2-5 players, PT 30 min +/-

- Zombie Dice + Double Feature Expansion - 2010, 2-12 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Catan Dice - 2007, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Bowling Dice - 1985?, 1-10 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Poker Dice - year ???, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

Learning the Rules:
Each night you will be expected to learn the rules for the games we will be playing the following day. Keep notes in your journal about how to ply the game and any difficulties you had understanding the rules.


Rules and  how to game play can be found on youtube:





 



Intro to Photoshop

Free Photoshop
- Fire Alpaca & the Gimp


Photoshop Basics 1
- Starting the Program / Quit

Whats Where?

Hot Keys

- Opening a file
-- Browse in Bridge or Mini Bridge
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --> New


* Resoultion
72 dpi traditional screen resolution
180 dpi lowest printing resolution
300 dpi + good printing resolution
600 dpi + high resolution printing


* File Types
- File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep forever

-- End Product Files
---- JPEG = .JPG = web and email (Flickr) file
---- GIFF = .GIF = web file
---- TIFF = .TIF = full quality print file
--- RAW = .RAW = raw camera data uncompressed file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file


Setting Preferences
Photoshop --> Preferences --> General

View
- Rulers, Grids & Guides
- Show
- Snap


Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop
1) paper size
2) single or multiple designs on the page?

in Photoshop
3) size and resolution
4) define print area 
* Offset press - requires cut lines, a bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the Middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately as a .psd 
ex LP_cover_Template.psd


Walk Through. Creating 1.5"x2" mini cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper.


Assignment #1:
create a template for the following list:
- 11"x17" Game Board
- 8.5"x11" Pamphlet Page
- 2.5"x3.5" Cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 
- 2"x2" Card on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 

* Resolution should be 300 dpi at size
* Use "guides" to designate the print area



Work on Assignment