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sundancer 4 years, 2 months ago.
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@blinky465 Swanky find for tabletop games. I think that the variability of playing areas might be a bonus for regular terrain over the pop up though the compact nature of the popup really makes it interesting. I think that there’s something to be said for the battleboard concept that SAGA brings up and I think that 40K has as well with scenarios.
Thinking about terrain setup and how it can affect play I thought back to good old Mordheim. The grimdark fantasy setting was great as a parallel to Necromunda. The over the top medieval madness from the artwork was always a treat to behold and still entertains when I think about heraldry for The Old World.
I think stepping into the hiveworld doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination once you get the Damned City concept. After watching some videos on it I pushed into Dredd and then thought some mood music would be good. Enjoy.
A very good producer of ambient music for the idea
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Terrain painting has commenced!
A change of pace to work on just a single miniature at once. I think I’ll do another nymph next. I chose this one by picking up a box at random and will pick the next one the same way. Full project here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav
I’ve been making tiny circuits again. But wait… before you roll your eyes and shout at the screen “we get it, Blinky, LEDs in miniatures, yawn, show us something new” let me explain….
It’s got a PIC microcontroller in it (perfect for robust, low-voltage stuff and much more reliable than the Arduino-friendly Atmel/AVR atmega chips) The other thing on the board is a voltage regulator (but I got the pinout on the pcb wrong so had to use actual wires to put the right pins onto the right components!)
The PIC means the LED inside the miniature doesn’t just light up but can flash! Yes, Blinky makes blinky LEDs!
The miniature is for a cyborg who works in a nightclub (in my cyberpunk game). But here’s the best bit….
I recently hired a few voice actors to record some audio to use in the game. So when your character interacts with any of the NPCs on the board, the app triggers the appropriate audio clip to advance the story (yep, @sundancer, @avernos, it’s much more than just a boring old “battle royale” I proposed to you guys a while back).
So now, when this character speaks, a signal is sent to start and stop the LED blinking. It looks something like this:
It’s not pefect (the signal is sent when the audio plays and a stop signal when the audio finishes, so the flashing doesn’t perfectly synchronise with the actual words). But it does look very pretty on the tabletop!
As well as tiny electronics, I’ve been trying to get some terrain for “cyber city” finished. Here’s a little news-stand
Shame the headlines aren’t more legible through the grills on the front.
Now to find a suitable NPC miniature to stand inside it!
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