What are you working on today?

[alyndavies]

A few months back I printed out a 30 mm board and the original tiles one or two squares in size are okay but I needed the right size for the room overlays. The other day I printed out the tiles for the Game System, Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord sized for 30 mm squares onto sicking label sheets. I'll stick them onto thick card when I can find some more. I'm not looking forward to guillotining everything but it's a necessary evil

This is what I want to do! I'm guessing that Heroquest tiles are 1000 microns (1mm) in thickness for tiles. Ideally I want the grave yard stones from the return of the witch lord expansion, I want to print a few out to make some kind of grave yard quest.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271479305848? ... EBIDX%3AIT

I'm going to give this card a try and print on it.

[whitebeard]

Somebody complained that they couldn't use my Questimator difficulty approximator because they didn't have Excel on their machine. All I can say in response to that is:


Writing Visual Basic code is slow going for me, so don't expect anything resembling a finished product for another few weeks at least. Progress is definitely being made, though!

Mac and Linux users will be unable to use your VBA app (perhaps with Wine?)

If you are going to teach yourself a new language, I recommend Python.

[slev]

Have been working on the books for Advanced HeroQuest Reforged. Almost finised "fixing" the last of the quests (Return of Lichemaster)!

[Count Mohawk]

Mac and Linux users will be unable to use your VBA app (perhaps with Wine?)

If you are going to teach yourself a new language, I recommend Python.

I hadn't thought of that. I know a little VBA, whereas I don't know Python at all, which is why I defaulted to VBA for coding purposes.

What language, or languages, are Patroclus's programs written in?

[Anderas]

Python is a totally different kind of animal. If you want to reuse some experience you have, then don't do it. Control structures are not embraced by brackets, but determined by tab spaces. Everything that is on the same insertion distance is regarded as belonging to each other like in brackets.

If you have the opportunity to compile your code, it doesn't really matter. If you can do it Web based, it doesn't matter.

[knightkrawler]

Python is a totally different kind of animal.

Nifty little wordplay there.

[knightkrawler]

I just rolled out my full printed board on the floor.
3.7 cm squares, double hallways. It's 82 cm along the short edge. My kitchen table is 86 cm.
Hmmm... I think I'm gonny buy me a nice black or dark gray tablecloth and go modular to grant my players some space for their decks and playthingies. Gonna get them some kind of tray either way for flexibility on the table. I really don't wanna play on the floor. Which I've done. As an adult. Still hurts my back.

There. I worked on something today.

by the way, for those interested... SorcApp's (Gametilewarehouse's) HQ standup cards work nicely for this size. The long furniture pieces take two squares which work with HeroScribe's 'MiniFurniture' setting and helps with uncrowding the board even more. Just don't know what to do with the overlays. They are too small.
I guess I really need to work on getting tiles done in my size, eh.

[sorcerersapprentice]

I just rolled out my full printed board on the floor.
3.7 cm squares, double hallways. It's 82 cm along the short edge. My kitchen table is 86 cm.
Hmmm... I think I'm gonny buy me a nice black or dark gray tablecloth and go modular to grant my players some space for their decks and playthingies. Gonna get them some kind of tray either way for flexibility on the table. I really don't wanna play on the floor. Which I've done. As an adult. Still hurts my back.

There. I worked on something today.

by the way, for those interested... SorcApp's (Gametilewarehouse's) HQ standup cards work nicely for this size. The long furniture pieces take two squares which work with HeroScribe's 'MiniFurniture' setting and helps with uncrowding the board even more. Just don't know what to do with the overlays. They are too small.
I guess I really need to work on getting tiles done in my size, eh.

[edit] Thanks very much for the plug KK and for your support of GTW. But what do you mean when you refer to the overlays? The tabletops? or the floor tiles?

Here are some bookshelve tiles from GTW placed within a heroquest board with the 0.75" floor tile (square and round) sizes shown in white:



There is only a few mm difference from a GTW square tile vs say, a pittrap supplied with HQ.

And here are both the smaller and larger card tiles shown on a heroquest board:



The smaller cards fit 1 and a half game squares - so yes they aren't sized to board parameters exactly but if treated as 4 square objects and placed in the middle of 4 squares so there is some edge around them, it should be a minor amount of edge whilst still giving you the representation needed. The larger ones, shown in red, and used for such tiles as the sarcophagus, tables, etc should fit exactly 6 squares.

Obviously it's a concern to me that you say you are unsure what to do with overlays and that they are too small - as I certainly don't want you to think I sell kits that aren't sized correctly - or consider the possibility your set wasn't printed correctly - so could you please explain a little better?

[sorcerersapprentice]

If you check Project Forge you'll see I'm making a new heroquest board with a new arrangement of rooms - which will help in matching my tiles to the board more exactly. Unfortunately, I have to work with what I've got atm, but I am hopeful of improving GTW tiles as soon as I am able.

[sorcerersapprentice]

@ KK. Just picked up on the 3.7cm change to your board squares... that explains the issue had me worried there for a second mate.