Post by agelessone on Jun 5, 2009 13:31:21 GMT -9
I am about 90% complete with a game I have been designing and play-testing over the last 18 months. It is a labor of love. It’s not intended to make me a fortune or allow me to retire. It’s what I do when not designing Datacenters and Storage Area Networks.
The mini-game rules themselves are about 90% done. I have had about 6 playtesters (victims I call “friends” )and about 90-100 test-games completed(mini and RPG). The rules are fast and easy to learn in 10 minutes but someone who has played for 10 minutes won’t last more than a few turns against someone who masters the rules, understands real world tactics and can apply them in the game.
The second part of my labor of love is an actual RPG to support the world. I am about 492,000 words into it. This has been where a lot of my effort has gone. It takes the mini game rules and increases the details, options and of course background dramatically. One cool part is the almost seamless transition for PC’s to the mini game. I have a few people who are working on it with me. Writers, and layout people mostly.
Anyone ever play Hellgate London? It was a MMORPG/FPS and due to a number of reasons is gone, canceled and over. The idea of Hellgates, dimensional rifts and extra-dimensional invasions is not a new concept but they really captured a great sense of the creatures and factions I would like to see in both an RPG and in a Mini Game. The idea of introducing new factions is easy with the gates and portals and tears in the fabric of reality. Well, Hellgate the online game is gone but the world and many of the factions are similar to what I have set up. Right now its a on a post-invasion, apocalyptic mad max -Hellgate London world. The struggle of the game is for the Survivor Factions to regain territory and more importantly close the dimensional gates.
What I need now are some “miniatures” to give playtesting the RPG and the Mini Game a sense of flavor that it needs. I am not delusional that I am going to fund an entire miniatures line in advance. Metal is expensive, plastics are expensive and full time sculptors are expensive.
Then I stumbled on this site a few months ago. I was blown away by what can be done with the paper miniatures. Almost any genre can be created and the amazing artists here really impress me.
However, I am not an artist. So I am looking for one.
So here is what I am looking for.
The first faction would be a secretive order of Knights who were aware of the impending apocalypse and raised warriors, scientists and scholars to fill their ranks. If you look back in History there has been no shortage of secret Cults, mystics and religious organizations. In this world they were right.... In the game this order passed secrets from generation to generation. They have the finest, most advance weaponry and armor. A blend of technology and magic.
For the game -This secret order consists of several specific types of techo-arcane warriors
• Knight Crusader – Dual Sword/Greatword wielding Technoknights. They are the offensive fighters
• Knight Penitent – Sword and Shield fighters more defensive. Think Paladins here
• Knight Umbran – Infiltration, Assassination are more their style with more CQB attacks. Still armored but more stealth like. Cloaks..darker armor etc
• Knight Arcane –Fighters who rely heavily on magic. No shields and can use swords or staffs
I am looking for a page of 8 paper miniatures (2 of each kind described) and the files to manipulate them into custom poses in a manner similar to what Jim does
12 Ranged Weapons
• Flamer
• Heavy Pistol (4 Variants)
• Assault Rifle (4 Variants)
• Special weapons
o Vertical Crossbow
o Sniper Rifle
o Grenade Launcher
10 Melee “technomagic” Weapons with 5 variants of damage/effects on them (if possible)
1. Greatsword
2. Longsword
3. Shortsword
4. Techno “Staff”
5. Hammer 2 Hand
6. Hammer 1 Hand
7. Axe 2 Hand
8. Axe 1 Hand
9. Spiked Mace 1 Hand
10. Spiked Mace 2 Hand
Damage Effects (I am assuming some king of outline or effect can be created to illustrate this)
• Flame
• Electric
• Toxin or Poison
• Energy
• Cold
Some guidelines
• 30mm..or even a bit larger
• Given the dark nature of the world, the Knights and subsequent factions are should have a dark undertone
• Think Techno-Magic Knights in shining armor(except for the Umbran)
• I have tons of pictures and reference material from Hellgate – screenshots from the game, art from the net etc. Weapons Armor etc. This is similar to the style and flavor I am looking for in armor weapons etc. It doesn’t have to be exact nor do I want it to be
• I believe much of the armor could be standardized with a head variants etc. The Umbrans may be a slightly different
• If anyone wants to split up the work that’s fine with me. One person could do weapons, the other could do the actual minis.
• I am the most flexible guy in the world
• I pay(well)
Additional Factions (work tbd later, but to see where I am going)
• Military -see Hunters and and Engineers in Hellgate. Special Ops/Back Ops guys
• Undead…I use the zombies and stuff I found online here
• Mechanicals..typical Terminator stuff here. I like they Cyborgs Jim did..amazing
• Demonic..demons
• Cultists and Collaborators ;-)
If things work out I am expanding to larger scale stuff. (if you play Heavy Gear…this along the line of what I am thinking of..more mobile exo-armor suits than massive warmachines that shake the earth) Something for the Knights to ride in battle….to take out the masses of undead and demons and those filthy collaborators…
If you are interested, we can discuss price, timeline, etc.
I am willing to pay for each stage of work with half of each stage up front.
Stages
• Rough Draft and Concept
• Completed Faction
• Files for creating custom minis
Contact me: medina-house@comcast.net
The mini-game rules themselves are about 90% done. I have had about 6 playtesters (victims I call “friends” )and about 90-100 test-games completed(mini and RPG). The rules are fast and easy to learn in 10 minutes but someone who has played for 10 minutes won’t last more than a few turns against someone who masters the rules, understands real world tactics and can apply them in the game.
The second part of my labor of love is an actual RPG to support the world. I am about 492,000 words into it. This has been where a lot of my effort has gone. It takes the mini game rules and increases the details, options and of course background dramatically. One cool part is the almost seamless transition for PC’s to the mini game. I have a few people who are working on it with me. Writers, and layout people mostly.
Anyone ever play Hellgate London? It was a MMORPG/FPS and due to a number of reasons is gone, canceled and over. The idea of Hellgates, dimensional rifts and extra-dimensional invasions is not a new concept but they really captured a great sense of the creatures and factions I would like to see in both an RPG and in a Mini Game. The idea of introducing new factions is easy with the gates and portals and tears in the fabric of reality. Well, Hellgate the online game is gone but the world and many of the factions are similar to what I have set up. Right now its a on a post-invasion, apocalyptic mad max -Hellgate London world. The struggle of the game is for the Survivor Factions to regain territory and more importantly close the dimensional gates.
What I need now are some “miniatures” to give playtesting the RPG and the Mini Game a sense of flavor that it needs. I am not delusional that I am going to fund an entire miniatures line in advance. Metal is expensive, plastics are expensive and full time sculptors are expensive.
Then I stumbled on this site a few months ago. I was blown away by what can be done with the paper miniatures. Almost any genre can be created and the amazing artists here really impress me.
However, I am not an artist. So I am looking for one.
So here is what I am looking for.
The first faction would be a secretive order of Knights who were aware of the impending apocalypse and raised warriors, scientists and scholars to fill their ranks. If you look back in History there has been no shortage of secret Cults, mystics and religious organizations. In this world they were right.... In the game this order passed secrets from generation to generation. They have the finest, most advance weaponry and armor. A blend of technology and magic.
For the game -This secret order consists of several specific types of techo-arcane warriors
• Knight Crusader – Dual Sword/Greatword wielding Technoknights. They are the offensive fighters
• Knight Penitent – Sword and Shield fighters more defensive. Think Paladins here
• Knight Umbran – Infiltration, Assassination are more their style with more CQB attacks. Still armored but more stealth like. Cloaks..darker armor etc
• Knight Arcane –Fighters who rely heavily on magic. No shields and can use swords or staffs
I am looking for a page of 8 paper miniatures (2 of each kind described) and the files to manipulate them into custom poses in a manner similar to what Jim does
12 Ranged Weapons
• Flamer
• Heavy Pistol (4 Variants)
• Assault Rifle (4 Variants)
• Special weapons
o Vertical Crossbow
o Sniper Rifle
o Grenade Launcher
10 Melee “technomagic” Weapons with 5 variants of damage/effects on them (if possible)
1. Greatsword
2. Longsword
3. Shortsword
4. Techno “Staff”
5. Hammer 2 Hand
6. Hammer 1 Hand
7. Axe 2 Hand
8. Axe 1 Hand
9. Spiked Mace 1 Hand
10. Spiked Mace 2 Hand
Damage Effects (I am assuming some king of outline or effect can be created to illustrate this)
• Flame
• Electric
• Toxin or Poison
• Energy
• Cold
Some guidelines
• 30mm..or even a bit larger
• Given the dark nature of the world, the Knights and subsequent factions are should have a dark undertone
• Think Techno-Magic Knights in shining armor(except for the Umbran)
• I have tons of pictures and reference material from Hellgate – screenshots from the game, art from the net etc. Weapons Armor etc. This is similar to the style and flavor I am looking for in armor weapons etc. It doesn’t have to be exact nor do I want it to be
• I believe much of the armor could be standardized with a head variants etc. The Umbrans may be a slightly different
• If anyone wants to split up the work that’s fine with me. One person could do weapons, the other could do the actual minis.
• I am the most flexible guy in the world
• I pay(well)
Additional Factions (work tbd later, but to see where I am going)
• Military -see Hunters and and Engineers in Hellgate. Special Ops/Back Ops guys
• Undead…I use the zombies and stuff I found online here
• Mechanicals..typical Terminator stuff here. I like they Cyborgs Jim did..amazing
• Demonic..demons
• Cultists and Collaborators ;-)
If things work out I am expanding to larger scale stuff. (if you play Heavy Gear…this along the line of what I am thinking of..more mobile exo-armor suits than massive warmachines that shake the earth) Something for the Knights to ride in battle….to take out the masses of undead and demons and those filthy collaborators…
If you are interested, we can discuss price, timeline, etc.
I am willing to pay for each stage of work with half of each stage up front.
Stages
• Rough Draft and Concept
• Completed Faction
• Files for creating custom minis
Contact me: medina-house@comcast.net