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Post by alloydog on Apr 8, 2020 8:42:43 GMT -9
I was looking at the old Ares Magazine saved on the internet archive. Randomly picked one copy, played around with GIMP and Word for ten minutes, et viola! a playable games   |
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Post by shep on Apr 8, 2020 9:13:28 GMT -9
Great find! I love those old mags, many good adventures in them...
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Post by okumarts on Apr 8, 2020 16:56:07 GMT -9
I was looking at the old Ares Magazine saved on the internet archive. Randomly picked one copy, played around with GIMP and Word for ten minutes, et viola! a playable games Wow, I had some of those issues. Reading them is like a blast from the past. Holy cats! |
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Post by wyvern on Apr 9, 2020 5:14:37 GMT -9
The Ares games could be a bit hit and miss; not always enough playtesting and/or proof-reading (a similar problem applied to many of the magazine-published boardgames of the time). However, there was some very inventive stuff among them, also like a lot of the other magazine and mini boardgames being published around then (late 1970s to mid 1980s). I still have all those I found at the time... For anyone interested in pursuing the make-your-own-version now, I'd recommend checking whatever BoardGameGeek has on each specific game, as you may find better counter and map images, updated counter sheets, access to errata, etc., etc. there. For example, Barbarian Kings is here. |
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