Shadowrun
Catalyst Game Labs => Catalyst's Shadowrun Products => Topic started by: AJCarrington on <12-15-14/2203:25>
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Some pretty stunning map work that looks to be coming with the Seattle Box set (late) next year over on the Tumblr page (http://catalystgamelabs.tumblr.com/post/105300081506/when-artists-blow-you-away).
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Woah.
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Very, VERY nice!!
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Holy smokes... that's really impressive as hell. I've spent a lot of time working on geospatial mapping data, and to do all that work by hand is insanely amazing. The amount of dedication and hard work that was put into just a few of those amazing pictures is mind boggling.
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I'm hard pressed to think of many other posts from Randall where his utter "enthusiasm" simply leaked all over the page. He work looks simply phenomenal. It would be really cool if they also looked into releasing this as a sophisticated digital product (not exactly sure *what* kind of product) that one could annotate and tweak for your home campaign. I think that this would easily sell as its own digital release, separate from the box set.
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A "Made for iBooks" eBook would really make something like this pop. imagine a map where taping any pin in it brings up putties or text about that point of interest. highlight text or color text that scroll through their boxes rather than take 2-3 pages if column space. Crop a picture to showcase one character but when taped it opens up to become full page with a whole second theme behind it. Un Shadowrun things like the comments section could be collapsable, the use of small icons could be used inline with text to allow GMs more info about a subject and the entire document can be hyperlinked within itself and to the internet to allow traders to click a word in a weapon definition and be taken to the appropriate rules page. Once you except that a "page" in a "document" no longer has to follow the old ideals everything becomes possible. The iBooks Author tool is free to use and and very easy to understand, especially if you've done page layout.
Pick up one of the "Made for iBooks" from Games Workshop to see just how much that medium can be expanded.
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Oh yeah - great ideas. I think I would love to have this as a digital background for my Wikia site too. If we could overlay this image into our own Google Map... wow. I would pay handsomely for a digital iBook file of this map.
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Excellent ideas...really close to what I was trying to get across. The only "concern" I have is that an iBook is a very limited format...fine for your iPad/iPhone but no good on your desktop/laptop/Android/etc. devices. To be honest, not exactly sure "what" the format could/would/should be... :(
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Given that Lone Wolf Development already has a license to make Shadowrun files for Hero Lab, the most immediate idea that comes to mind would be to make this a map for Realm Works.
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Ooooooooooooo!!! ;D
That sounds rather interesting...though it would require another license...sigh... ::)
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Downtown Seattle is a motherfucker to drive through, especially the single lane residential streets.
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Excellent ideas...really close to what I was trying to get across. The only "concern" I have is that an iBook is a very limited format...fine for your iPad/iPhone but no good on your desktop/laptop/Android/etc. devices. To be honest, not exactly sure "what" the format could/would/should be... :(
actually it works on all Apple formats including desktops but yes it is apple only. You can use the author to build iBooks only and ePub at the same time so that any ePub reader could support it many of the truly amazing features need that extra umph that iBooks adds. I would strongly recommend that CGL look into starting their book design process as ePub and then build out from there. The digital design choices make for a much more flexible design and writing process and allow the final document to be flowed into several final formats all at once.
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Found this on the SR Berlin FB page:
(https://cdn.artstation.rocks/p/assets/images/images/000/265/775/large/klaus-pillon-worldmap-final-low.jpg?1414090741)
Some info on it from Gizmodo (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-amazing-photo-of-a-city-is-actually-a-game-world-m-1672001790/+caseychan). Some other snap shots of the artist's (Klaus Pillon (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-amazing-photo-of-a-city-is-actually-a-game-world-m-1672001790/+caseychan)) work here as well (really nice, IMHO).
I would love to see this give take a crack at Seattle... ;)
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The only "concern" I have is that an iBook is a very limited format...fine for your iPad/iPhone but no good on your desktop/laptop/Android/etc. devices. To be honest, not exactly sure "what" the format could/would/should be... :(
Yeah, if eBooks are ever really to dominate there will have to be a standard and portability and future proofing. At the moment it seems more to be a way of giving books a shelf life and tying consumers in to a particular product/channel. Glad deckers don't need a range of decks for accessing different content!
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The only "concern" I have is that an iBook is a very limited format...fine for your iPad/iPhone but no good on your desktop/laptop/Android/etc. devices. To be honest, not exactly sure "what" the format could/would/should be... :(
Yeah, if eBooks are ever really to dominate there will have to be a standard and portability and future proofing. At the moment it seems more to be a way of giving books a shelf life and tying consumers in to a particular product/channel. Glad deckers don't need a range of decks for accessing different content!
You can read ePub format on any book reader/tablet/laptop/PC that I am aware of. It is DRM that is the limiting factor. Some platforms such as Amazon or Apple will also try to lure you with their custom formats but those are easily converted to any format you like with applications like Calibre. But again it is the DRM that can cause issues with that too.
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I would love to see this give take a crack at Seattle... ;)
Only if he draws the Renraku Arcology/ACHE as being taller than it is wide.
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I like the big-bootied version of the ACHE though! "Cause I'm all about that ACHE, 'bout that ACHE." :P
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I like the big-bootied version of the ACHE though! "Cause I'm all about that ACHE, 'bout that ACHE." :P
No Deus. All about that ACHE, no Deus...
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Brack, Namik, I can and will ban people for that kind of behavior...
Bull -- Who bloody hates that song and all 6 million parodies of it. Fraggin' internet.
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*quietly disposes of the 'SR Greatest Parody Hits' CD from Bull's Xmas Stocking and goes back out shopping*
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(note there should be a smiley there in my previous post. I would never ban people for that. That anyone knows of. :))
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Hey Bull, if you need a hire a team to disappear someone, just let me know. My team's gotten pretty good at that over the past year or so. :P