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Space minimod is up. Coming soon for not-yet-backers, because everything is free, because this is ENGINE HEART.

Last night Viral was going over the icons for all the Features and Defects and agreed to print /tg/'s contributions if they beat out his design. So make some icons. It's never been this easy to get published.

Beyond that: Cute little robots, no people, non profit FLGS distribution, KS, yadda yadda yadda
<-- Here, have a free game.
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Never heard of it?

I don't believe you.
Here's the links.
http://pastebin.com/Qrk4YpvT
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>>24453954
Thanks Wally.
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>>24454035
>Eany Taime Sur
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I might try my hand at some icons after my morning class. I had fun with the little robots in the video.
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>>24454056
Why do I hear Star Wars Battle Droid when I read that line?
>Roger Roger

anyways, speculation! leakages! About the space minimod! What do you guys think is in it?
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Here's the list of Features and Defects that wants to be illustrated. The minimods are not in, yet. Please check if I missed something.

http://pastebin.com/fJ2UJ83R

>>24454315
Backers should have it.

I don't, because it's my friend's paypal and his KS account. But I will later tonight.
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>>24454315

Space minimod's already up bro, no speculation needed.
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>>24454529
I am forced to speculate owing to not being able to back.
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>>24454315
>anyways, speculation! leakages! About the space minimod! What do you guys think is in it?

I bet it has a new adventure where the player robots help restart a space program that's been languishing since the humans disappeared.

It also might have new outer-space based features like Vacuum Propulsion and Solar Sail, and a new defect called Spaceborne.

>>24454389
Hey, thanks for putting that list together!
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>>24454185
Yes, please!
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>>24455397
Could you post the names of the other minimod Features and Defects? I'd put them in alphabetic order like a good little librarianbot.
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>>24455455
I'd even take a picture.
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On the KS page, the only way to learn that backers already got minimods is on the backer page. Maybe tell everybody?
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>>24455484
Nvm, it's in the CINDERBLOCK text. Kinda hidden though.
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>>24455631

Industry Standard:

F:
Claw (grabs robots and doesn't let go)
Electromagnet (durrrrr)
Overclocked
[Reinforced appears as a feature in the advance copy but will not be in the official release because it's basically identical to the Workhorse feature from the main rulebook and was only included as an accident that didn't get caught]
Simple Assembly (easier to repair)
Smelter (already has icon)
Wind Turbine

D:
Partial Casing (increased damage when struck)
Response Lag (penalty to initiative)
Salvaged (harder to repair)
Weak Motor (decreased damage when striking other robots)
In Transit:

F:
Abrader (sandblaster, grinding wheel, etc)
Compactor (steamroller, etc)
Massive (high potential energy)
Rack (not that kind you perv)
Silent Mode (already has an icon)
Turbo (double-speed)

D:
Poor Acceleration (like it says on the tin)
Warranty Worry (cannot repair other robots)
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>>24455661
>Overclocked (can make two interaction checks on its turn instead of 1; inflicts self-injury if it attempts the second interaction check)
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>>24455671
Check my work.

http://pastebin.com/06Nrje1R
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>>24455754
Looks like everything's in place!

Thanks again for making the list. This'll be really handy.
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Hey guys

Are you ready for the next stretch because it's dice.
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>>24455997
Kekekeke
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>>24455997
Actually, it's not even gonna be a stretch. More like an amendment.
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>>24456389
We realised that if we order a billion dice, economy of scale actually makes it practical to throw in a few hundred dice with every order. We were initially worried about extra shipping costs, but then we realised that if we built a giant catapult and just flung them across the by the cartload in the direction of the orderee's address they'd probably get as many dice as they asked for. Maybe even more! And shared with their neighbours, too, which is a great way to get even more people to play the game with you!
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>>24456446
Hey, you're not my project manager!

I can tell because of seeing him a few times, and from the fact that he doesn't spell neighbor with a "u"
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>>24456472
Then you and your project manager are insufficiently British.
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>Battering Ram and Biofrequency Scanner
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>>24456908
Delicious.

How long will this chance to submit icons be available? I shant have a chance to try my hand until tomorrow evening, but I'd really like to help out.
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>>24456971
>How long will this chance to submit icons be available?
Until the KS ends, I guess. That's when the new editions need to be finalized.
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http://strandgamers.com/engine-heart-part-1/

Podcast from Games & Gizmos is up!
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>>24456908
I like these. These are excellent.
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>>24458816

Awesome.
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>>24462144
Indeed.
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>>24458816
this inspired me to make 2 versions of for rare model and one for Nuclear Battery.
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>>24467031
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>>24467039
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>>24467045
my version of power dock
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>>24458816
Finished listening to this... I really like the idea the GM came up with for defensive actions.
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>>24467210
derp forgot pic
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>>24467039
>>24467031
I always imagined it to just be a bot with one o those stamped on the chassis.
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>>24467234
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>>24467245
And this for common model.
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>>24467222
better version i just made there is a middle version if you want to see it Viral
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>>24467312
lol 110V
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>>24467342
Viral and I are American

also happy danish version
I'm not making any of the stupid looking plugs that don't use triangulation for better grip, or the Chinese angled one, or Switzerland's monster. and south Africa's has no soul.
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>>24467461
chapcha ate my pick this time
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>>24467461
Superior technology is superior.
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>>24467538
I think pics are just broken today...
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>>24467474
Here is my version of Power Leech

the holes are the holes in the "fangs" are the holes in a US power plug.
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>>24468633
and with a vampire cape
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>>24468643
here is my version of Secondary Battery
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>>24468895
here is my idea for Simple Programming
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>>24469027
this version is a little cleaner
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>>24469048
my bad
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>>24469027
>>24469052

Why not a dunce cap?
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>>24469130
Because that doesn't visually show they are easy to hack which is what the mechanics are my initial draft had 2+2=??? in the thought bubble.

Plus to a human consumer this is appealing and says I am easy to reprogram and is good marketing. As opposed to implying the robot is dumb and incompetent which is not implied by that drawback.
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>>24469307
here is my Wireless Transceiver idea
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>>24469813
Solar Powered idea 1
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>>24470383
Solar Powered idea 2
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>>24469813
What about something like this?
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>>24470388
I flipped the signs on the power leaching bot to show that it is charging.
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>>24470401
that is like 100* better i am slleep deprived and am going to bed now. More in the morning as i make them.

also swapped signs on no cape
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>>24470413
What about this one with one of those balls on the antenna?
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>>24470451
that looks a little better maybe put in some incoming waves to show the receiver half of the transceiver.
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>>24470487
EH does not distinguish things on such high resolution. I think 2 concentric waves are too much.>>24469813
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>>24469813
Waves decay by inverse square law in AMPLITUDE, not in WAVELENGTH!

The radii should be increasing in a linear fashion, not an exponential one. Unless you want to go all out Roadrunner physics.
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These are pretty adorable.

My phone has no bars, so afk for about eight hours.
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>>24470451
Definitely picking this one. Simple, expressive... love it!
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>>24470797
How's this concept for the giant trait?
Maybe the house should be smaller?
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>>24470870

I'd say make it be two robots side by side instead, the other noticeably larger and more imposed than the other.
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>>24470880
...And make the one in the back be the large one looking mean behind a cute front one.

>Don't mess with me while my brother is here.
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>>24470937
>>24470880
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>>24471005
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Lightweight concept.
TinyBot being lifted on scales by a feather.
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>>24471005
>>24471047
This seems like the next logical image in the sequence
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>>24471091
What about adding a bow to the little one for added cuteness?
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Crappy exposed power button concept
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>>24471123
couldn't get it to look right but how's this?
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Prehensile limb
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>>24471182
Looks like a standard limb.

Prehensile limbs are multi jointed or even tentacles.
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>>24471201
Fixing now.
Submersible
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>>24471225
That could also be the icon for wet paper weight.

Maybe he can scoot around a bit.
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>>24471201
Is this more your style?
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>>24471251
>style
No. But it IS more accurate.
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>>24471251
More sensible version
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>>24471247
How's this one?
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>>24471283
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>>24471310
Yes!
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Spacebourne.
Aiming for a satellite look
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>>24471381
How about this?
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>>24471968
Gotta say, the sputnik bot is cooler than the other space bot
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>>24471968
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>>24471992
When we have a symbol for each feature and defect, wouldn't it be useful if each player displayed his somehow. It would make getting to know your party easier and it would look great. Almost like a board game.

...I play too much (pic related)
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Could someone who knows the rules put together some character sheets for various famous robots?
I'd be very interested in reading them.
Johnny-5, T1000, Wall-e, wall-a, eva, Cmdr Data, ect...
Ther might even be useful for GMs to use for encounters
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>>24472093
What about putting all the icons and their associated names together in a grid so they can be printed out and stuck to character sheets?
I'll make a mock up now...
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>>24472143
Johhny-5 and Wall-E exist. I'm not at my home PC though.

Wall-A would be possible with the new features.

T-1000 and Data are possible, but not in keeping with the idea of cute robots. So they'd need quite a few dump stats to make up for size, second limb, Android, ... I guess.
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>>24472143
>Wall-e, wall-a, eva
BURN-E?
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>>24472252
Burn-E's struggle is the epitome of Engine Heart.

I show people the short when they ask about the game.
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>>24472161
Shitty mock up is done!
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>>24472299
Like a mini screen for each player. Could have some tables on the other side and fold down to push it up at the corners.
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>>24472451
Assuming the screens are customised to the players current robot, how would they be put together?

Some sort of papercraft fold up thing that Trait markers slot into?
A script to combine the icons onto a template?
Physical cut and glue shennanigans?
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>>24472516
A GIMP file with a template and all the features and defects as layers?

But scissors and glue are usually at my Engine Heart table as well.
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Cutting Laser
(Official ISO laser symbol)
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>>24472516
Update, here is a mock up for that papercraft idea, it needs someone competant to actually implement it, just like my other contributions.
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>>24472575
Loudspeaker
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>>24472594
Clarification, I'm thinking something basically like this, but made of paper.

>>24472575
>>24472630
Good, but i think they'd be better if someone shoved a little robot icon next to them.
I'll give that a try now
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>>24472630
Nuclear Battery
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>>24472650
The original inspiration is warning symbols that might be on the box of a brand new PR. I like that much more than forcing a cutebot into every icon.

Some require it to convey elaborate concepts. But when there already IS a universal symbol for something... I say use it.
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Display Screen
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>>24472671
You have a good point.
Don't want to overdo the cutebots
It might be nice to make a second set of icons for things that a universal symbol is applicable for if someone makes a miniscreen template though.
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Enhanced Cameras
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Enhanced Microphone
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Fan
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>>24472984
We should probably be saging our posts for these dumps
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>>24473004
this is all new content or proposed content to the game i don't see why.
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>>24473093
So we don't have this thread hogging the front page. Just courtesy really.
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>>24473200
Single thread, posts several minutes apart, etc. It's not like you guys are spamming up the board and it's legitimate content. Don't stress yourself out about it.
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>>24473004
You shouldn't because I love it. I think Engine Heart may get me back into tabletop.
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Telescoping Reach with out cute bot
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>>24473283
with
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Saw
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Mute

Anyways, I'm out.
For now.
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Drill
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>>24473430
Extra Limb
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>>24473473
durp
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>>24473478
Prehensile Limb
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>>24472143
Wall-E's character sheet is already on the wiki.
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>>24472704
Love this one!
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>>24474913
I just looked for standard symbols and redid them from scratch to avoid any copyright issues.

>>24473398
>>24473301
>>24472984
>>24472925
>>24472888
>>24472828
>>24472704
>>24472653
>>24472630
>>24472575
So you'll at least have a few standard ones to pick from.
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>>24472828
This one too!

Can't wait to get off my crashy phone and get back to work
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>>24474913
Hold on. You're gonna like our Chaos Computer Club logo.

Derived from the 1980s BTX logo, our corporate pre internet.
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>>24474999
Cable TV, not BTX.
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>>24474963
I'm gonna have to redo them as vector graphics for the book anyway.

>>24474999
Ha!
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>>24475032
Can't you just make Corel trace them?
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>>24475058
I prefer InDesign's native tools; traced vectors never look as clean as I'd like.
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>>24475563
here is a simple telescope for Enhanced Cameras
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>>24475829
and a more elaborate cute bot option for Enhanced Cameras.
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Backup
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>>24475840
Dunno why, but...
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>>24475245
I'm a bitmap guy. Give me Photoshop any day.
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Why the flippin Friday frogfeti aren't the illustrations styled as IOS aps?!
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>>24474963

As far as I know, any symbols from ISO 7001 should be free for general use (though they charge if you want the official vector art). You can even use the official search at https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#home to find iso symbols for damn near everything.
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>>24478849

why would they be? They're based on ISO symbolism, such as the symbols for "fragile" or "keep away from water" or the USB symbol.
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>>24473301

ISO official "circular saw" emblem as a comparison
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>>24478984
Perhaps they should be edged with beveled square/triangle/octagon borders? Just a thought. The whole shtick for the rules just strikes me as overly robo-dorable with just a touch of industrialism.
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>>24479066

the atmosphere is supposed to be as neutral as possible because there are so many different ways to handle a world. Everything from Brave Little Toaster to Wall-E to something crazy dark like There Will Come Soft Rains. So robo-dorable isn't really supposed to be a thing, just lots of people in this thread having an attachment to the "cutebot" for no real reason. See >>24472671

I wouldn't want to do square/triangle/octagon borders on something unless you'd imagine it being an actual warning symbol, since that's generally what those mean.
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>>24478849
>Why the flippin Friday frogfeti aren't the illustrations styled as IOS aps?!
Hmmm... I wonder.
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Well stolen is better than new.
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>>24472653
I don't like this one. It says it is radioactive but it doesn't say power at all.

I see stealing all of these >>24478929 as lazy and uncreative many don't even have the same feel as the non 'cute bot' ones Viral did like >>24456908 if you insist on existing symvols use a little crativith like >>24473301 or >>24479951 dont just phone it in like >>24473398 >>24472925 >>24472888 >>24472653 >>24472630 >>24472575
draw inspiration and make a new symbol like show how >>24472575 isn't just a laser but a cutting laser. or make a nuclear battery like >>24467045 not just a radiation symbol as in >>24472653 take inspiration don't just steal.
Some of the more obscure or estoric symbols are good though because they have the same feel as >>24454004 & >>24456908 like >>24472704 >>24472828 >>24475016.

I will try to revamp >>24472630 & or >>24473398 as even better examples of what i mean.
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>>24480308
This is hard but here is what i have I did one for a speaker a buggy speaker and four different mutes.
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>>24477499
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>>24481370

I'd prefer just the floppy with the bot on it.
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>>24481003
Viral will pick what looks best, that does not mean they have to look like Viral's. The idea is to offer a broader range to pick from.

So anything goes.
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>>24481469
easy
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>>24481472
True I am just voicing my opinion coherent art is something I like. Unless all of the art work will show obviously and hugely different styles I would like consistency. The things I don't like are to different to be consistent IMO and to similar to overwhelm any one sense of style.
but it is ultimately Viral's call and I'm sure it will be good in the end.
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>CRITICAL UPDATE:

Unlimited custom Engine Heart GameScienceâ„¢ precision d10s are now available!

There's also a new tier that includes the rulebook, the Power and Light module, and ten dice!
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>>24472594
I've spent a few minutes putting together a shitty example of that trait display thing.
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>>24484255
I like where your head's at.

>New update: Project Manager says if I give him a sheet of icons he can get STICKERS!
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>>24484274
Here's some more pics of the mockup then.
I can try making more mockup icons when i get back to my main computer.
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>>24484296
Unfolded
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>>24481490
That's good.
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>>24484274

Update from me btw, sorry about the silence, still working on the Excel generator. Work has kept me horrendously busy recently. It's being improved and updated with the new content, will look to have a new version with features and defects out sometime next week.
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>>24484309
Trait cards removed from slots.
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>>24484443
You are forgiven.
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And now, having logged 900 miles on 6 hours' sleep and eaten the rest of my delicious Minneapolis Asian food microwaved on a plate I got from the Days Inn bar, it's time for me to go to bed.

Tomorrow will probably be spent doing nothing but refining icons. If you submitted one and didn't attach an email or a name, lemme know!

DICE!
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>>24485044
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!
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Wow, look at all the icon that got made.
I was made to be a bit busy but now I can have fun and make some too. I'll try to pick stuff I haven't seen other people do.
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Maybe Viral can post a list of features and defects that are still in trouble. So we can direct our efforts towards that.
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>>24488026
Viral needs to get more than five hours of sleep before he does that.
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>Cutebot
Expression coined
Just as planned
Now on to the next phase...
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>>24487987
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>>24488040
Take your time.
Rest easy on your bed of d10s.
Count some cutebots.
Must be almost 6am over there.
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>>24485044
I made a bunch of the ones on this thread, i can send you an email i guess.
Is the email on your website correct? The domain just goes to some linkfarm thing
http://programmer.net/
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>>24488121
the @programmer.net email is valid, I have conversed with Viral via this address before
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>>24488137
Thanks.
Also joke cutebot design for drill, just for fun.
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>>24488062
Fuck it, my sleep pattern is more of a scribble. Gonna eat a terrible hotel breakfast and get back to work.
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>>24488241
How do you make these?
I'm just fumbling around in photoshop and I'd appreciate any advice on how to improve.
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>>24488318
Grab a photo of what you want.
Trace it with paths.
Remove anything uniconic.
Make selcteion from path.
Grow selection / border selection.
Fill tool.

I'll post my source next...
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>>24488318
I just do white shapes on a white background then set a layer style with a black outer glow. Pretty easy to build stuff in Viral's EH style that way.
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>>24488340
And here's the GIMP file with layers and paths and all.
http://www.mediafire.com/?7do9qnn4th14x7k
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>>24488061
>kinda looks like
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>>24488379
>>24488318
derp
Forgot Adobe hasn't heard of GIMP yet.

Here's the .psd
http://www.mediafire.com/?dos4b8ce828q21i
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>>24488659
>derp
...which contains no paths.
Just get GIMP. It's free.
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>>24485044
What color are the dice?
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>>24488747
Tentatively aquamarine gem. I was thinking of doing a poll after the KS ends to see if people would rather have another color instead (I picked that one because it fits the Engine Heart shades-of-blue scheme).
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>>24488773
>doing a poll
So we should back individual $10 pledges to gather up some votes?
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>>24488773
Will the icons be etched or printed?
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>>24488773
Just went to mediafire. That link on 1d4chan I put up last week when yours was down for 15 minutes had 59 takers since then, if you're keeping score.
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>>24488813
>Will the icons be etched or printed?
Etched and then the grooves will be painted by the GameScience people. Or their machines. Either way, you won't have to do it yourself.

>>24488802
I think the way it works is that after the KS ends, I can send out surveys to specific groups of backers/ every backer/ individuals, to find out specifications like this.

>>24488824
Good to know!
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>>24488773
If you let people vote you are probably going to end up with something Stupid like "Black with Red numbers" Or something equally cliché or ugly. Just stick to the game's color theme, people can get any color dice they want from Game Science on their own.
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>>24489025
Maybe you're right...
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>>24489025
>Just stick to the game's color theme, people can get any color dice they want from Game Science on their own.
yes I agree with Freeheart use your best judgment at least limit the selection to a few variates you personally like for the project.
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>>24489977
I doubt different color is in the budget.
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>>24490081
yes i know i mean limit the voting options if any to "a few variates you personally like for the project."
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>>24490909
>>24489977
That's a pretty good idea!
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DICE
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>>24491047
If someone submitted icon ideas with an email are you sending rejection emails as ell as acceptance ones the tension is killing me on my ideas.
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>>24491177
Sorry, I've been driving and not sleeping since Thursday afternoon, so I haven't had a chance to do ANYTHING with the icons until right now (and right now I'm emailing a store in Latvia to tell them we don't have any more room on the list and looking through foolz for the email for the neckbear in Latvia who wanted me to email the store in the first place to tell him that they finally got back to me but too late).

Gimme a sec and I will announce the front-runners.
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>>24491219
>Gimme a sec and I will announce the front-runners
what ever works for you i am just eager for info.
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>>24488061
I like the idea for this.

>>24475910
Might switch the robot in the though bubble to a non-square robot for more clarity

>>24472828
>>24472704
Both of these are perfect. Just gotta clean 'em up

>>24470451
Just replied to an email affirming this one.

I already decided that the Mute defect is gonna be a speech bubble the same size as the thought bubble with an X in it. Both bubble templates were made at the same time for just this occasion.

>Pic related: this is what a butterfly looks like in Engine Heart. Definitely my most challenging icon to date.
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>>24467045
I also really love this one

>>24468895
and this one
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>>24491470
how about
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>>24492265
Yep, that's what I was thinking. I like the idea of square/ triangle being used to symbolize "this means different types of robots"
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>>24492324
so do you like my rare model idea? >>24467039
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>>24492396
Fishing much?
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>>24492396
Yes, especially with its take on the Common Model icon. I might tweak the layout a little, but I like the concept.

>that feel when 10 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours
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>>24492460
Did you send me my 100 dice pack yet that I already paid for? After that you can go to bed.
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>>24492489
Oh sorry sure lemme do that real qui-

HEY

WAIT A MINUTE

did you already pay for the shipping too
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>>24492441
a little

Iv never been accepted for publication before it has me giddy and foolish.
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>>24492526
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New Buoyant
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>>24492833
i like it a lot
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>>24492833
Could you
>>24488026
maybe?
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>>24493098
Here's the master list:
>>24455754

I'm cleaning up the ones I picked out of this thread, but then I'm just going down the list alphabetically, so if you see something you're inspired about, make it!
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>>24493184
New Model Error and Electromagnet.

nono's original Electromagnet icon for comparison. I think I did a pretty accurate job of reproducing it.
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>>24493259
Great! I just stole that somewhere. So the little inaccuracies are actually a good thing. And I think the bolt looks more in keeping with EH.
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>>24493259
another idea for solar powered
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This one took extensive use of the Scissors tool.

>>24493722
Nice!
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>>24493794
wind solar sail and slow and fas charber are next

>>24478702
if you add a grappling hook feature this would be great for it.
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>>24493863
*wind turbine, solar sail, slow & fast charger are next
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I cleaned up the Wireless Transceiver icon.

Update: Project Manager has been finagling with the sticker producer, so we might have something else fun to give all the backers!

>>24493896
Neat!

>>24494114
I had to do a double-take on that one - thought it was a vacuum at first glance!
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>>24493722
The side of the battery with the 'nub' is the + side.

Although all the batteries (nuclear/wind/solar/etc) would looks best with only the corresponding symbol and no +/-
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>>24494217
Yeah, I found that Plasma Arc Welder is kinda hard to get across in an icon.
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>>24494309
I agree, but it also sorta looks like a nuclear iPod this way...

I guess that's not a bad thing?
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>>24494350
>Yeah, I found that Plasma Arc Welder is kinda hard to get across in an icon.

I was thinking of something that showed a close-up of the flame welding a crack closed.
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>>24494309
Why not have both?
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>>24494528
I might change the Solar Powered to a picture of a cutebot outside in the sunshine.
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>>24494528
Maybe, looks a little busy to me. Maybe have the symbols outside of the battery.

Here are a few of my quick ideas.
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>>24494750
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>>24494761
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>>24494771
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>>24494750
>>24494761
>>24494771
>>24494786

Those... are really pretty. I'm sold!
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>>24494750
>>24494761
>>24494771
>>24494786
These are nice.
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>>24494114
How about this?

>>24494750
>>24494761
>>24494771
Sold.

>>24494786
Water? A propeller might be more clear.
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>>24494799
>>24494836
Thanks. I feel like i jumped in a little late on the project but figured I'd help out a bit.
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>>24494900
Still too busy imo, but I like the direction it's taking.

>A propeller might be more clear.
I agree.
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>>24494900
Less confusing version.
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>>24494900
Wind, but yeah maybe a wind turbine or something. I just tried to keep them as simple and consistent as possible.
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>>24494979
The feature's name is Wind Turbine, after all.
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>>24494988
how are these? May also work for fan
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>>24495210
Nooo! I wanted the blue pill.
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>>24495120
>Cute bot with solar charger the battery is + side up to show it going up.
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>>24495210
Ahahahahahahaha
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>tfw you will never have a thread with 5+ people Photoshopping your ideas in real time.
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>>24495322
>tfw it wouldn't even matter.
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>>24495210
Not even joking.
wired.com/underwire/2009/07/military-researchers-develop-corpse-eating-robots/
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cute bot wind
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>>24495397
Can I play a hospicebot crematory unit?
It would have a charging bay.
And it can burn anything, not just people.
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>>24495480
>>24495397
CaesarSalad already did it:

>Unit R35T trundled down the broken street, its thick treads helping to further crack and rend the decaying asphalt. Many charging cycles had passed since it was able to fulfill its primary purpose. There were simply no targets left. R35T and its brethren were nothing if not efficient, and even the tremendous workload of those first few months of the plague dwindled to little, then nothing.

>The thoroughfare was silent save for R35T's own functions. Optical sensors scanned for biological remains. Some units had taken to scooping up birds or rats or the occasional bloated feline corpse, flyblown in the sun and processing them in their furnaces. But R35T never lowered itself to such things. Though it had no vocabulary for the concept, it found the greasy soot left from the animals distasteful, nothing like the pure ash it was meant to create from its primary purpose.

>The programmings its creators had blessed it with could not quite grasp other sensations either. Had it the words, R35T might talk of creeping desperation. Despair. Once it crossed paths with a malfunctioning unit, tipped onto its side, tracks spinning in useless frustration. The malfunctioning unit's engine screamed in protest but R35T left it there. It would shut down completely, one day. Never again to do its duty.

>During another cycle, R35T saw two units scrambling to collect and process the same piece of biological matter. A single broken femur, tooth-marked and nearly dried to dust in the sun, had been unearthed by one of the mover-units. And the two collectors each tried to do their duty, neither wanting or able to back down. RE5T had to shut off its auditory circuits to silence the noise of metal thundering against metal, until one of the two units was silenced forever.
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>>24495199
Question: where did you get the fan icon, and if you made it from scratch, do you have a .psd file of it or something I can have?
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>>24495701
Here's what I've got so far for cleaned-up versions
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>>24495322
did someone say photoshop?
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>>24495720
The rounded batteries with solid-color end caps are throwing me off a little bit.
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>>24495750
ditto I like the boxer ones like this better >>24495120
the empty insides are good though plus >>24495120 are the same external shape as the power icon.
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>>24495750
>>24495822
Think you're right. How do these look?
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>>24495938
Less like Nalgene bottles!
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The nuclear symbol isn't centered properly and looks off-balance but beyond that I like them. Maybe do the +/- for the blank one so it's a bit more obvious?
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>>24496011
>The nuclear symbol isn't centered properly and looks off-balance
Yeah, it was a hasty redo

>Maybe do the +/- for the blank one so it's a bit more obvious?
It's not gonna be blank, I'm just waiting for >>24495199 to help me out with the raw file that they hopefully still have from making the fan.
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>that feel when $113 away from ten thousand dollars
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>>24496086
And still 15 days to go!
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>>24496086
Clearly that means you need another space-themed stretch goal...
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>>24495938
much better but >>24496011
is right also i prefer the closed nuke symbol to the open one like pic related
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>>24496110
We really want the next stretch to be free GM screens for all physical-copy backers.
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>>24496260
>then have two or more new stretch goals, spacebots conquer all!
>to $15,000... and beyond!
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>>24496260
are those going to be sold at stores as well? And will you make a free PDF for print on demand / PC use

also that >>24496153 is me

and slow charger
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>>24496326
Too complex. Cute idea, but too many lines inside the battery.
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>>24496326
>are those going to be sold at stores as well?
Probably not. It'll likely be a KS-only thing because we'll barely be able to afford to make enough to give them to the backers.

>And will you make a free PDF for print on demand / PC use
Yep!
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>>24496388
do you agree with >>24496372 or is that fine i have some other ideas but would rather get to the solar sail if that is good.
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>>24496426
I agree; it's too busy. I had a couple ideas for Slow Charger, but right now I'm trying to replicate the fan blades from >>24495199
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>>24496446
K working on it
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I made a fan
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>>24496600
looking fancy
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>>24496600
Only suggestion is to maaaaybe tilt the lightning bolt?
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>>24496823
Like this?
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>>24496958
I think he means make the top of the bolt parallel to the top of the battery but that looks a little better already.
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here are some more for slow charger
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>>24497984
and in grey the diamond is the tragic sign for slow the right one is aligned to the viewer the left to the battery
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>>24498025
*traffic
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>>24498025
You keep getting me to try my designs out.
I picture something more iconic, it should explain itself.
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We have a lot of features, but what about defects?
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>>24498236
Really like this idea.
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>>24498673
how about
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>>24499015
see
>>24496388
>>And will you make a free PDF for print on demand / PC use
>Yep!
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>>24498801
Excellent.


Almost autosage. New thread?
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>>24499354
Don't forget to put the 1d4chan link in the OP!

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Engine_Heart
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>>24499354
Go for it just link them to each other.
I like putting the arrow in the shaft but if you do it like that the shaft from number 3 was best.

>>24499109
I like >>24468895 way better but it is mine.

Also would someone mind doing aversion of these slow chargers wit the symbols lined up to the battery not the screen MS Paint hates triangles at 45% angle and it is all i have.
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>>24499528
>Also would someone mind doing aversion of these slow chargers wit the symbols lined up to the battery not the screen MS Paint hates triangles at 45% angle and it is all i have.

Don't worry, I'm making a clean vector version as we speak.
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N E W

T H R E A D

>>24499653
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>>24499528
last post
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>>24499791
thanks



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