Malekai

hey guys, I'm not sure if i should ask this here but here goes. I'm looking for an artist for my startup (UK based) to work on board/card/miniatures games. the artwork I need is more like concept work (illustrations for rule books and InDesign work) and I have literally no idea where to meet someone like this, any advice offered is greatly appreciated. Thanks

well, thanks for your time guys. Think I've got my answer for now. Cheers, take care

@freekvd thanks for the answer, it helped me to understand why I was seeing the problems with the randomisation using dice

@Robson no the board is just laid out as a straight road

each tile on the board can be drawn onto a card (ignoring the red and blue lines) and then drawn randomly as we said

(if you havent guessed already by now, the board is a road :) )

aslong as the red lines meet the blue at the board edge, each tile will line up as part of the board

only the terrain actually has an effect on the game

both the red and blue lines are nothing in game terms or rules

and the green dots are the random terrain

the red wavey line is artwork on the board sections

so, basically. the blue line is just an imaginary line

hang on, drawing a diagram

see the board sections will link like that

yeah I have

but in the final thing there will be many different types of terrain in varying sizes

no, typically AT THE MOMENT, theyre about 1in by 2in

the board will be mostly plain, but with a set number (4 is just a test number for now) of terrain pieces on there

well, probably 5-6 different sized tokens

may be over kill lol

not a bad number :)

ah right, i follow

im not following you

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thanks for your time mate, and thats for the help

think we've got it there :)

yeah thats a good idea

true, aslong as we designed the board layouts

each section has one of twelve possible terrain layouts

yeah, sorry by layout I mean terrain

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and all you're doing is randomly choosing a layout from the desk

so each section is one of a possible 12 layouts?

yea

and then you'd add the terrain as the card shows

you'd draw a random section from the card pile

but each seciton would be randomised

yes

then you laid out the section as the card showed

what if we had say 8-12 cards, each had a diagram showing the position and number of terrain pieces?

what do you mean cards? cards with coordinates on?

any other ideas on how we could place the terrain? as I said we were looking for a more inventive way of randomising where to place things

true

yeah in which case we would just have them reroll the result

lol yeah. each player has to have 8, and then we thought 8 was a good number to have for none player related rolling (terrain)

yes the project would come with roughly 40 dice we think

good, we were just looking for a more inventive solution as rolling the dice can be long winded, has minimum values etc

ah ok