Got a shiny new toy in the mail today.
About a week ago, I placed an order with Print and Play Games to have some prototype sheets made for Stellar Drift. Not for a full game, but just for the important parts; the various writable sheets and the energy sideboards. The graphic design is still in progress for everything else.
I got the notification that this was in the mailbox, so I ran out to grab it like a kid on Christmas Day. Got it inside, tore the packaging open, and found this.
Wow. This is amazing!
No, that's not right, let's try that again...
This. Is. AMAZING!
Okay better. :)
This puts everything my home printer puts out to shame! Compared to what I can make at home, the colors on this are so vibrant, the gradients show up well, the symbols are clear, and everything just pops out of the page! I remember they did a good job before with making prototypes for Manaforge, but I think this one might even be better. :)
Can't say everything came out 100% perfect, though. While they did do an outstanding job with the print quality, the sizes of the components are slightly off. I don't know where the source of that mismatch is, but the size miss is suspiciously close to the amount of bleed we provided around the source image; I'm thinking there was a miscommunication about how all that should have worked.
Still, that's the entire point of this test run, flushing out any glitches like that so I can get exactly what I'm expecting when I do finally order a large batch of preview copies. So, a successful failure? With this print quality though it's hard to call it a failure.
This also serves the other intended purpose; I now have a high-quality prototype that I can show off at game stores and conventions. And there just happens to be plenty of those to work with. Counting this as a win! :)
About a week ago, I placed an order with Print and Play Games to have some prototype sheets made for Stellar Drift. Not for a full game, but just for the important parts; the various writable sheets and the energy sideboards. The graphic design is still in progress for everything else.
I got the notification that this was in the mailbox, so I ran out to grab it like a kid on Christmas Day. Got it inside, tore the packaging open, and found this.
Wow. This is amazing!
No, that's not right, let's try that again...
This. Is. AMAZING!
Okay better. :)
This puts everything my home printer puts out to shame! Compared to what I can make at home, the colors on this are so vibrant, the gradients show up well, the symbols are clear, and everything just pops out of the page! I remember they did a good job before with making prototypes for Manaforge, but I think this one might even be better. :)
Can't say everything came out 100% perfect, though. While they did do an outstanding job with the print quality, the sizes of the components are slightly off. I don't know where the source of that mismatch is, but the size miss is suspiciously close to the amount of bleed we provided around the source image; I'm thinking there was a miscommunication about how all that should have worked.
Still, that's the entire point of this test run, flushing out any glitches like that so I can get exactly what I'm expecting when I do finally order a large batch of preview copies. So, a successful failure? With this print quality though it's hard to call it a failure.
This also serves the other intended purpose; I now have a high-quality prototype that I can show off at game stores and conventions. And there just happens to be plenty of those to work with. Counting this as a win! :)
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