Topic: Greetings from a boardgame lover! (Read 2359 times)

Thanks for the links to the models, they certainly would work very well. Are different colours available in 3-d printing?  Or would I have to paint them afterwards?

Ah, my bad.  With the clarification I see what you are saying now. monopoly is such an interesting concept as a game.  As i mentioned in a previous post. I play it often. It can be played with so many different strategies, and no game seems to play out the same as the last.

personally, I love the game, but I've also been playing it since I was a kid so I may be biased.

I do like the looks of your version, looks like you put a lot of work into it.

I think maybe I didn't word that quite right.  I wasn't claiming to have thought of the concept of Monopoly... the game was invented well before I was born! XD  I was specifically referring to Mariopoly.  I had not seen this version in stores before.  Some friends of mine had talked about making up their own versions of Monopoly and this is what I came up with a while ago.

I'm under the impression that there are some affordable 3d scanners out there, but I haven't really looked into it yet to be honest. On the other hand, you have plenty of models you can download from the net, in sites like thingiverse, for example:

Mario and Bowser - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:338542
Mario figurine stand - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:231246
Yoshi - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:211601
Mario - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:27678

http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/1c/20/37/cf/19/Mario_Posed_-_UPSAMPLED_preview_featured.jpg

I haven't checked all the models, but they seem to be fairly high quality, and should be printer ready. Have fun.

Sorry but monopoly type of game is really boring, you should try the game bang!, its really fun.

So that is your work?
This is really impressive. It is nice that you share that.
Design is really great. I like it a lot.
Have you tried to sell boardgames?
That is just question, cause I think that you are very, very good at that.

Not buying that you had never heard of Monopoly before. Far too many similarities.  there is also hundreds if not thousands of different types of monopoly, you had to have known. 

This is awesome , hope you let me buy one in the furture

I don't have any experience with 3-d modeling software, so I should probably work on learning that. Out of curiousity, are there 3-d scanners available as well?  Or are those pretty pricy?  Either way, I can't afford it, but would be a nice toy for down the road.

Why not have a tournament with your friends. Make it interesting, and tell them to put up bitcoins per game. "Winner takes all"

Instead of using $ as on your notes, make it Satoshis. 

You could fund this with faucet payments, if they do not have BTC yet, just create wallets for them.

Good work.

Great idea! I love boardgames. Hope you can invent more games and sets.
 I'm trying not to advertise, but you should probably try some alt-coins that oriented to start-ups|crowdfunding or business oriented. Not only rely on donations but try to make something bigger. There are some dying cryptos with friendly communities (like Globe) or something still promising - like dolphincoin or swarm... I just mean you have a little chance to be an early adopter and significant player with alternative cryptocoins, not the mainstream bitcoin. but it's always good to accept bitcoin. Digital gold standart ).

awesome boardgame lol.

I love yoshi! 

You would still need to create the models to print (say, with a program like blender) or download them from somewhere, but yeah, 3d printing would be ideal for this sort of thing, and far easier to use on the long run. As for the rules, they seem quite appropriate to the theme.

Thanks for the 3-d printing idea! I'll keep that in mind for next time.  Didn't realize they were getting cheap enough for home use, that's pretty cool. It would have saved me a lot of time too, as I made another set by hand for my sister.  I ended up using really cheap terracotta modeling clay designed for kids, so it was kinda difficult and frustrating to work with. lol

As for the rules, the goal of the game is still the same.  There are certainly a lot of twists though.  Travelling the board is a bit crazy.  Instead of the railroads you purchase in traditional Monopoly, you use a pipeline network that jumps you around the board depending on what your dice roll is.  That's one of the ways you get into the Beetle Expressway (the diagonal row on the board). There are also numerous cards you get to hold on to, so that you can be a bit more strategic. Stuff like shells, stars, and fireflowers you can use to target the person in the lead and make them lose coins(mario kart style).  Also the board dimensions are a bit different (11 x 10 squares) which might be frustrating for some players. This doesn't bother me at all, but frustrates my husband who gets a bit thrown off by this when moving his token. For example, if you roll a 10 while being on a corner, it doesn't necessarily mean you get to jump to the next corner (you'd go past it on the short side).  Anyhoo, for the full rules, read the text file that I included in the zip file.  If anything doesn't make sense in there or I left something out, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.

Thanks for your kind comments guys.