To many more decades of board game awesomeness! Cheers to The Game Crafter! (I'm gonna split my order up this month so I can get more entries in the Happy Birthday giveaway!) ...I play X-wing Miniatures and when the game went "2.0", I became the owner of over a hundred obsolete dials but as a game designer, these became more even more valuable. I've used 'em a few times for whipping up rapid iterations of prototypes. The numbers and symbols can be "coded" to whatever result you want AND they're easy to flip around and mark your own data/info. X-wing going into 2nd edition gave me so many great cardboard bits- I'm stocked up. -D.D.
That is a fantastic mindset, 1,000 Year Beard, I’m glad you’re set for a versatile component for the next 1,000 years! Hopefully TGC can keep up too. 😁😁 A very simple and intuitive tracking method, I love seeing especially younger players interact with dial wheels.
Metal grommet, not ratchet. We used them in sign making for banners and whatnot. I'm actually very interested in this for a game I'm working on. I like the weather condition dial with the ships' wheel.
I knew I was looking for a different word, Joshua, thank you for the correction! How were you toying with a dial in your head? :) And I’m glad you stuck around to see to it! I’m rather pleased with it myself.
You’re right on the money with the physicality of dials, N20 Games; I think that aspect plays a huge factor in player engagement, aside from their utility!
Please create an easy edit template for these. I could use all of these products but I'm not good with Photo Shop type editors and component studio has been a dissapoinment.
Thank you for the comment, Sean; for a template, do you mean something pre-prepared for simple editing (art/graphic design already complete)? You might have some luck under Game Assets on TGC for something like this, in addition to the downloadable templates, though it sounds like you weren’t have luck creating what you wanted with those.
@@benjaminmoy2669 Thanks for the reply. Something easy to edit that does not require photoshop. I tried component studio but it seems they are in the middle of an identity period. Was not quite what I was looking for. I have bought assets from TGC before. I'd love to see something in a .png format in multiple generic "themes" with a simple "click here" to change text, "click here" to change or add image, "click here" to change color. If you offered this I believe you would find your sales go through the roof. Even if you only did this in generic templates without themes. A lot of the process can be intimidating for those of us who are technically limited. Thanks for considering.
@@TheGameCrafter No -- more like a knob that you would find on an amplifier. A dial that has numbers on it (whichever number is facing "up" (top of board) is the active number. Like a volume button.
To many more decades of board game awesomeness! Cheers to The Game Crafter!
(I'm gonna split my order up this month so I can get more entries in the Happy Birthday giveaway!)
...I play X-wing Miniatures and when the game went "2.0", I became the owner of over a hundred obsolete dials but as a game designer, these became more even more valuable. I've used 'em a few times for whipping up rapid iterations of prototypes. The numbers and symbols can be "coded" to whatever result you want AND they're easy to flip around and mark your own data/info.
X-wing going into 2nd edition gave me so many great cardboard bits- I'm stocked up.
-D.D.
That is a fantastic mindset, 1,000 Year Beard, I’m glad you’re set for a versatile component for the next 1,000 years! Hopefully TGC can keep up too. 😁😁
A very simple and intuitive tracking method, I love seeing especially younger players interact with dial wheels.
Metal grommet, not ratchet. We used them in sign making for banners and whatnot. I'm actually very interested in this for a game I'm working on. I like the weather condition dial with the ships' wheel.
I knew I was looking for a different word, Joshua, thank you for the correction!
How were you toying with a dial in your head? :)
And I’m glad you stuck around to see to it! I’m rather pleased with it myself.
I'm sure there are lots of clever uses for dials. Plus, they are just fun to handle and manipulate. Also, Happy 10th Birthday GC!
You’re right on the money with the physicality of dials, N20 Games;
I think that aspect plays a huge factor in player engagement, aside from their utility!
Please create an easy edit template for these. I could use all of these products but I'm not good with Photo Shop type editors and component studio has been a dissapoinment.
Thank you for the comment, Sean; for a template, do you mean something pre-prepared for simple editing (art/graphic design already complete)?
You might have some luck under Game Assets on TGC for something like this, in addition to the downloadable templates, though it sounds like you weren’t have luck creating what you wanted with those.
@@benjaminmoy2669 Thanks for the reply. Something easy to edit that does not require photoshop. I tried component studio but it seems they are in the middle of an identity period. Was not quite what I was looking for. I have bought assets from TGC before. I'd love to see something in a .png format in multiple generic "themes" with a simple "click here" to change text, "click here" to change or add image, "click here" to change color. If you offered this I believe you would find your sales go through the roof. Even if you only did this in generic templates without themes. A lot of the process can be intimidating for those of us who are technically limited. Thanks for considering.
How would you make a dial that sits on top of a gameboard (i.e., not sandwiched)?
Do you mean a spinner like this? www.thegamecrafter.com/make/products/SpinnerMat
@@TheGameCrafter No -- more like a knob that you would find on an amplifier. A dial that has numbers on it (whichever number is facing "up" (top of board) is the active number. Like a volume button.
@@JackieFox1976 You can create that using custom punch outs like this: help.thegamecrafter.com/article/204-custom-punchouts-rivets-dials