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Living Room / Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2012, 12:19 PM »

I'd like to request your help in improving my Culinary-themed card game that I would like to try funding on Kickstarter.

Cooking Party Cards

DOWNLOADS:

Everything including rulebook, one page description, and complete print-to-play pdfs for cards: https://www.donation...ngPartyCardsGame.zip
Or just rule book: https://www.donation...rty/GameRulebook.pdf
Or just one-page description of the game: https://www.donation.../GameDescription.pdf

Here's where the game currently stands:

I have a draft of the basic rulebook.
I have a complete set of about 150 draft prototype cards.
I have playtested the game with a few friend and family, and it's gone over great -- my 8yr old niece who likes cooking shows loved it.

And here's what I know I need help with:

Coming up with a better name.
Adding additional variants of gameplay.
Adding a main gameplay mode that does not depend on subjective culinary judgement. That is, I want to add an alternative, more traditional card game that can be played with the cards, for people who may not love the idea of a subjective social party game. Adding small amount of extra indicators on cards to facilitate this is possible (numbers, etc.)
Coming up with kickstarter goals, "perks" etc.
Finding an enthusiastic partner who likes the game and wants to handle the kickstarter parts like making a high quality kickstarter video, etc. and handling all of the work involved in the kickstarter and "markering" aspects.
Playtesting.
Writing an ingredient guide and glossary (basically some info+trivia about each ingredient and general culinary tips).
Funding it if/when it gets to kickstarter!
Inventing new Assignment Cards
Creating expansion packs (like a Thai food pack of cards, a pack of cards for making mixed drinks, a spice/fish/cheese specialty pack, etc.)

I would really love some help from the gang here.. It's a simple game idea, nothing ground breaking, but I still think it's a fun idea and I'd love your help in exploring the possibility of using kickstarter for a fun little project.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SonicPhoto

« Last post by mouser on September 01, 2012, 09:13 AM »

fun stuff

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Living Room / Join us for a game of Crack the Case on our irc chat channel

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2012, 04:31 PM »

At 6:30pm forum time today Friday Aug 31, join the irc chat channel (#crackthecase on efnet), or click the "CHAT!" button at top of forum page, to join us for a virtual game of "Crack the Case".

All are invited for a good time; rules will be explained in the chat channel, there is nothing to it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2012, 02:55 PM »

Thanks for understanding

What I was trying to get at with the comment about "real" thread is that I think politics+religion don't really belong on DC, but they especially doesn't belong in active threads that are productively discussing some other issue. Injecting such issues into an active thread is harmful and likely to derail things -- even if the diversion to politics and religion starts out harmlessly and without controversy -- because it inevitably gets ugly.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2012, 01:54 PM »

Guys and gals, please do not bring another real thread into politics debate land please.

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2012, 06:39 PM »

My next mini-boardgame-review is of "Survive: Escape from Atlantis"

Once a year I've been getting together with my family for a week, and it's my job to bring board games for the family to play. This means bringing games that will, first and foremost, appeal to my beyond-cute 8yr old niece, but also my 70+ yr old parents.

This year the biggest hit was Survive: Escape from Atlantis, which was purchased based on the numerous recommendations on Board Game Geek saying that it was a fun family game.

To be honest, after reading the rules I had my doubts about how well the game would go over, because it's pretty cut-throat. But the theme goes a long way towards keeping everything lighthearted and amusing. The younger kids loved it, and the older people enjoyed it as well. A great mix of luck and strategy and surprise, and quite easy to learn.

Very highly recommended for family gatherings: 9 of 10.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2012, 03:40 PM »

Next up for me is a book on set theory -- something I haven't read about since I was an undergraduate.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Ctrl-C Copy to Clipboard Question

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2012, 09:30 AM »

You're encountering a confusion that has come up before.. The problem is that Ctrl+C can do a different thing depending on where you are.

Here's what I think happens, perhaps you can verify:

If you hit Ctrl+C while in the main window, you should copy the IMAGE to the clipboard, and pasting it in your email will paste inline.

BUT if you are in the lefthand thumbnail panel, when you hit Ctrl+C you are copying the FILE to the clipboard, and pasting it will be like dropping a file into your email, as an attachment.

Does that make sense? I could change it, but there is some logic to the way it works.

So if you want to copy and paste an image inline, it means you have to click in the main window area after selecting an image from the thumbnail panel, or use the Edit->Copy image to clipboard menu item, which should always work.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Paste As File 2.1.0.0

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2012, 08:11 AM »

We can help provide web space for freeware/donationware if you need it.

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Living Room / Re: The Unraveling of OnLive

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 07:10 PM »

It seems clear to me that there was some honest-to-goodness impressive technical stuff being done by OnLive, and that they took an inspired risky new idea and made it work, at least to some extent. For that, they deserve some real credit and admiration.

The thing that always sticks in my craw is the common thread I see in internet businesses, the fakery involved in pretending to have enough customers to be profitable in order to make it past one more round of funding, and then just continuing this cycle indefinitely until the inevitable crash.

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Living Room / Re: The Unraveling of OnLive

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 04:26 PM »

A more positive take:
http://arstechnica.c...-only-option-we-had/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 12:27 PM »

I want to note that I love Amazon, and I wouldn't say this issue is Amazon's rotten "core" -- it's absolutely a hugely important and corrupt aspect, but not the core of what makes Amazon special.

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Living Room / The Unraveling of OnLive

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 12:25 PM »

An interesting read about how an interesting technology company could not make a profit. Note the theme we've discussed before -- completely fantastical ginned-up grossly inflated membership/customer numbers, designed to create a false sense of momentum and source of profit, and a giant pile of cash being burned through at an astronomical rate.

The problem was simple. OnLive never made any money, and it was burning through as much as $5 million a month. As Perlman himself explained during the fateful all-hands meeting, the company had deployed thousands of servers that were sitting unused, and only ever had 1,600 concurrent users of the service worldwide. Over the past week, OnLive has tried to distance itself from that 1,600 number, but every former employee we spoke to in a position to know told us that it was true. "We were so optimistic at launch, but the users never came," one long-time staffer said. "There were all these reasons why we were going to be an instant success, but it didn't succeed instantly." Even if the users had come, though, some employees dispute whether the service could scale: OnLive needed a physical machine for each concurrent player, and though Steve continually pressed the team to figure out a method to virtualize the load, the current model might have been untenable.. Officially, the company states it has 2.5 million users, and 1.5 million active users, but staffers tell us those numbers count every single person who ever signed up for a free account, or tried it in the last year. The other thing you need to understand is that many of those users never paid a dime.

http://mobile.thever...274739/onlive-report

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from http://waxy.org/

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General Software Discussion / Scott Hanselman's Posts on Getting the Most from Windows 8

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 12:11 PM »

A nice set of posts by Scott Hanselman describing how to be productive with Windows 8. I've been hard on Windows 8 preview but some of this stuff looks pretty good.

... However, once it's installed, it's initially confusing but I have been using it every day all day since it was released and have got myself productive again. Here's what I ran into and how I realized that there's less reason to freak out than I originally thought.

http://www.hanselman...eeseOhThereItIs.aspx

Screenshot - 8_29_2012 , 12_10_07 PM_thumb.png

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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2012, 09:22 AM »

Finished ME3; it was impressive and good and I can't complain about anything, but ME2 was much more of an enjoyable experience for me.

I don't know if that's because ME2 was "better" or because ME2 and ME3 were similar enough that after playing ME2 all the novelty wore off.

Bottom line, I'd highly recommend playing ME2 or ME3, but probably not both, and I don't know which of the two to recommend more highly.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2012, 11:17 PM »

This baby tiger bounces just like Tigger from whinnie the pooh, and has a little dog as a friend.

from http://www.neatorama...ce-When-He-Grows-Up/

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Living Room / Re: Sansa Clip Zip: Wow!

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2012, 10:26 PM »

Rockbox installed fine, seems to work well and solve both of my complaints. Thank you for this thread

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Living Room / Re: Sansa Clip Zip: Wow!

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2012, 10:11 PM »

Ok i'm off to try Rockbox.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2012, 09:26 PM »

We are going to wake up one day and find out that half of the content on the internet (facebook accounts, twitter accounts, reviews, kickstarter donations, amazon reviews, etc.) is fake paid content designed to manufacture momentum and positive press. Depressing.

Hopefully we will eventually find a way to get rid of this harmful practice.

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Living Room / Re: Sansa Clip Zip: Wow!

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2012, 09:23 PM »

I bought a ClipZip for my recent trip to visit family.. It's ok but i can't say I love it.

Only two reasons, but they are real thorns in my side:

First, it takes the "I'm smarter than you" approach to organizing audio files, which you see in newer audio manager. This means it doesnt matter how *I* organize the folders i put on the machine -- it's going to organize them based on found mp3 tags into Artist/Album/etc. This usually works fine but occasionally is a truly painful obstacle to finding stuff.

Second, a function that i find critical to saving battery life is the auto sleep function, where it goes to sleep after an hour or whatever of playing. The ClipZip has such a function but it resets to being off every time it's powered on. Not cool.

Haven't tried Rockbox so I have no idea if it would address any of those issues.

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