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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Race For The Galaxy Computer Game

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Race For The Galaxy is a fun little commercial card game that now has been turned into a freeware computer game.

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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Free Fonts For Your Self Published Game

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Dafont offers more than 13,000 Fonts. That’s a lot, but they’re categorized and offer previews of your custom text.

Font Squirrel offers a selection of fonts which are cleared for commercial use.

Lost Type has a small number of vintage style fonts. Not technically free, instead, it’s pay what you want.

The League of Movable Type aims to offer an elite selection of open source fonts.

Fontspace has more than 15,000 fonts.

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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Battle Scribe Computerized Army Builder

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Battle Scribe is a free software application that allows you to build point based armies.

WHAT IS BATTLESCRIBE?

BattleScribe is an application designed to make it easy for wargamers to build and maintain their army lists - similar to Lone Wolf’s Army Builder. BattleScribe can handle almost any game system or faction, and is constantly being improved with new features.

Quickly and easily work out your army list
BattleScribe works out your points totals and tells you if your list is valid. If there are problems, it highlights the unit in error and tells you what’s wrong. All you need is the data files for your game and army.

Outputs army lists for printing or the web
Army lists include profiles and rules (if the data file contains them). Layout options let you choose what’s printed and how it’s layed out. Copy the result as text, HTML or print it out.

Easy to share data files
BattleScribe can automatically download and update it’s data files from on-line “repositories” - all you need is the repository’s URL. Repositories can be easily created with the included tools.

Easy to create data files
Easy to use editors are included to allow you to create or edit your data files - no programming required. It’s simple to fix errors you might find in data files.

Works on any system
BattleScribe works on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android, or any OS that supports Java

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Magic Set Editor Software

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Here’s a bit of free software that helps you create magic style cards. I think I might use the software to create unit cards for my miniatures games.

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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

FilesTube

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There’s a lot of miniature wargaming goodness on file sharing sites such as MediaFire and MegaUpload, but its hard to find them. FilesTube is a search engine dedicated to those sites.

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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

XenoSquad Flash Game

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For a nice diversion, try XenoSquad, a turn-based flash game. It puts you in command of a squad of space marines in a fight against an alien menace.

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Villainous Flash Game

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Villainous is is a flash tower defense game with a neat twist. In this game, you control the waves of villains who pass by the towers to assault the town.

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Savage Worlds Apps

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Here’s a web app designed to help you play Savage Worlds. With the proliferation of smart phones, I’ve wondered in recent months why someone doesn’t put together a set of gaming rules with the calculations done by phone.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Inkscape Vector Illustration Program

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Inkscape is

a free Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Desktop Dungeons

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Desktop Dungeons is a small, free, random dungeon crawl computer game. Fun stuff, especially because it plays so quickly.

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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.

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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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