The Great War as a boardgame.
I have heard that impgames is trying to release "The Great War" as a boardgame. Does anyone know when it's coming out or have any information on it? I appreciate it .
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I know, I know, but I'd rather do that than raise false hopes, which seems to be the trend among so many game manufacturers.
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I just finished designing a custom font for the game's money...what a chore! I have new respect for folks that do it full time/professionally. Every letter and symbol (about 150 of them) is essentially a separate piece of art needing attention.
I'll probably release this little family of fonts as freeware after the board game is out. It's got some historical value, since the font (called by the tongue-in-cheek moniker "ImpsBankNote") was tightly based on post-WWI lettering on a 50-mark bill (a ReichsBankNote). I've not seen a font like it, and I have thousands!
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Imp,
WOW!!! so The Great War will have it's very own currency, that's fantastic dude!
Keep up the progress, we are all waiting as patiently as possible for the release of TGW!
Later,
Thoes426
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
- Adolf Hitler
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Glad to hear TGW will provide exclusive IPCs. However, please keep in mind:
"Wer Banknoten nachmacht oder verfälscht, oder nachgemachte oder verfälschte sich verschafft und in Verkehr bringt, wird mit Zuchthaus nicht unter zwei Jahren bestraft."
(Don't copy any Reichsbanknote except you are authorized by the Reichsbankdirektorium. Otherwise you will be imprisoned - 2 years at minimum.)
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Fortunately, a 1920 banknote falls wells outside the copyright era, and I bet a bizarre 50 mark note printed on 30 weight paper might be just a tad difficult to pass (particularly in the world of the Euro). Although I know you're kidding, I always consider these copyright issues when mining old resources for new ideas. No Zuchthaus for me, please.
By the way, are all nouns capitalized in German, or just some of them?
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All nouns and names are capitalized. Although german is my motherlanguage I still sometimes have problems with the differnt times and words. Japanese can´t be much more difficult to learn :-)
No release dates...
We won't promise a hard release date, as delays may occur even in the final hours if suppliers don't come through, etc. My partner recently commented that an old commercial advertised that their company "moved at the speed of business;" he then noted ironically that the speed of business is somewhere between slow and glacial.
A soft release date is Fall 2004, maybe even late summer if things keep moving as well as they have as late. The mold-maker has been working well with Ian, who is now moving full speed ahead with model design. If you've been following our saga, you know that this has always been the critical missing piece in the production puzzle, so no major hurdles remain.
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so The Great War will have it's very own currency, that's fantastic dude!
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