Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Steampunk Writers Guild looks like an interesting group. I’ve been into Steampunk/Victorian Sci Fi since I first saw Space 1889 back in the early 1980s. That’s still one of my favorite RPGs.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Zamzar is a neat site that will extract video files from YouTube, convert them to whatever format you choose, and then email a link to download the file.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
JayCut is a full featured online video editor like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Best of all, it’s free.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Kickstarter is a new internet project with an interesting idea. It lets you post descriptions of an artistic project and basically beg people for the money to do it. If enough people pledge to meet your goal, you get the money, less 5% taken by Kickstarter. If it falls short, all pledges are off.
In either case, the creator retains all rights to the project. The donated funds are not investments, but gifts. To encourage gift giving, however, creators can offer perks, such as autographed copies, and whatnot.
There are quite a few gaming related projects here. Just use the search function to find them.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
You can now get into the miniature wargaming manufacturing business with Shapeways. It’s an online company that takes your 3d computer models and then “prints” them with their 3D printers. They also allow you to set up a web store to sell your products, while Shapeways handles the order taking and shipping.
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Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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