Rock Hunters

Looks great. Is that game any fun?

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It’s my own game design :slight_smile:

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I’m biased, I designed the game. However those who have play-tested it for me say it is.

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So coooool! I’m friends with a few RPG designers. Game design is not easy!

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This looks amazing. Having the evafoam really makes it pop!

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I like it. Just wondering if success is gonna spoil it…*

(*Dad Joke: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) - IMDb )

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Nice!

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Gniess!

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I needed to create some bases for the asteroids. Turns out you can print a lot of them from medium clear acrylic. The only pain is removing the mask :joy:


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The mask sticks to sticky stuff far easier than any other. I use masking tape, or a larger piece of masking if I have it and drag it across the parts needing weeding. if an edge curls just a bit It will weld onto the passing sticky and be easily pulled off :slightly_smiling_face:

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If you are making sheets of circle bases in the future, consider making sheets of Gorilla Tape: Make Gorilla Tape Sheets -- Best way to remove lots of small bits of masking

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Damn, that is just genius level thinking right there - I’m going to give that a go next time! :heart_eyes:

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Watched the Tic Tac video. She have the nicest speaking voice. Very soothing for my ears. You need to do audio books!!

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Starting to see copies of the game out there in the wild. It’s a heart warming moment that’s only possible because of my Glowforge.

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Looks cool. Good luck with it!

I just hope success doesn’t spoil it…

(Yeah, I know. Same joke, different day.)

Heh, I’ve had a number of people and a couple of stores looking to stock it - which makes me realise that my life for a while is just replicating this game…,

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So I finally got to the stage where I was ready to sell copies to people. I’d built up a small stock cache in readiness but I still didn’t have a store page. That didn’t stop people asking to buy it, they paid via direct PayPal and Bank transfers and I ran out of stock within a day - I’m now having to scramble to make more. It’s a really nice problem to have but also an exercise in not underestimating how many you can sell.

The other lesson is that people really want unique Christmas presents they can’t get anywhere else.

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We have a member here who was very successful at selling puzzles, @jbmanning5 . He had to step up to a bigger commercial laser to keep up. Hopefully you have a copyright to that, you may find a commercial retailer that would be interested in buying it from you.
The CEO of glowforge kickstarted a game called “Robot Turtles” to teach the fundamentals of coding, and the rest is history. :sunglasses:

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It’s an outlet for my creativity more than anything else. I used to run my own games studio for 2 years making video games but then PlayStation hired me to go work on their Global Developer Technology Group to help make the PS5 and due to the nature of my work I can’t make video games while there. However I can make tabletop games.

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