Date: 10/13/2009 6:46 pm
Rating: 5
I've got great news and sad news. The sad news is this will likely be the last parts update for 2009 (or at the very least, the last major one). The great news is that this is a HUGE one. We've lowered the prices on many of our parts, and introduced a whole pile of new ones.
Lowered Prices
Hotel (0.04 cheaper)
House (0.10 cheaper)
Bowling Pin Pawn (0.11 cheaper)
Large Bowling Pin Pawn (0.03 cheaper)
Avatar Pawn (0.10 cheaper)
Rocket (0.01 cheaper)
Token Chip (1-1/4”) (0.01 cheaper - absolute lowest we can go for you token creators!)
New Parts
Game Stands (aka Card Stands, in much requested full color! Also less likely to damage cards than the clear ones.)
One more thing. I know a lot of you have been wondering if you can use our images in your documentation. We have retaken all of our photographs to ensure that we own all of them. So now, you can feel free to use them in your documentation. We've also included a quarter in every photo so you can easily get a sense of scale of the item.
I'm sure you creative cats will come up with all kinds of crazy new games that can use these parts. And many of you will enhance your existing games with parts you wish we had when you first uploaded your game. Enjoy!
Date: 10/13/2009 7:28 pm
Rating: 1
I wish I could "thumbs up" that post half a dozen times.
Avatar is from the card "Secrets Of Infinity" from game-in-progress Bad Trip. Art by Jade E. Henderson (c) 2007. Used under license. Member of the Game Artisans Of Canada
Date: 10/13/2009 7:44 pm
Rating: 0
This is great news... I know of several people here who have been asking for certain items on this list, and several more ideas are sparked by these. I love all the options for people wanting to do war games, on land, air or sea.
I noticed that the race cars only mention two measurements, but they are not square, so I was wondering what their height, width and length are. Could be important if you are trying to design a game where the fit would be relatively tight on the board. I am sure the same could be said for some of the other vehicles too, but I only looked closely at the race cards since I have no plans to do a war game at the moment.
In fact, precise measurements of all the three main dimensions could be useful on nearly all items for those who like to carefully design things. This is why I purchased a small number of the usable items last time you introduced new things, so I could not only see them but have precise measurements for game layout reasons. Including the quarter is helpful, but not exactly precise or a clear indicator in all images.
Also I do hope the inclusion of the new colored game stands doesn't mean the discontinuation of the clear card stands, as the new ones are significantly larger. I see uses for both and would hate to see either of them go away. I also noticed you didn't have a quarter in the picture of the clear stands. I hope this was an oversight and not an indication of their leaving. If they are sticking around (please) it might be nice to have a "related" link between the two stand options on their information pages.
Date: 10/14/2009 12:23 am
Rating: 0
The clear stands will be leaving once we run out of our existing stock. The manufacturer we purchase them from has discontinued that item.
That's too bad... the new ones are cool for some purposes, but too large for some others. I mean they are a whole half an inch wider, which is significant real estate on a game board. I hope you find something smaller to replace them with at some point before they run out.
If not it also seems the TGC exclusive mini-expansion I put out a couple weeks ago will end up being a limited release.
Date: 10/15/2009 3:02 am
Rating: 0
Wow that really does suck for the small card bases.
Ive been designing a game using 1" squares and those things are just too big. I'm going to have to order some of the large ones and see if theres anything i can do about it, but as of right now i either need to have the buyers cut them down to size or make things bigger. Probably the latter. Man this sucks.
