Developing Interest

So, with some small measure of work, I have managed to more or less get myself back to where I left after before my flash drive crash; and I even managed a little progress.

The hex tile number tokens, card backs, building cost card face, and resource cards faces are all rebuilt and waiting till I'm ready to print the cards.

The one and only element I did not rebuild was the soldier's face that I had started on. The reason I have not rebuilt the soldier's face is that it was far more detailed than necessary for the size the soldiers will end up on the cards; so I saw little point in going through all that work again for something that would not be very visible in the final product.

Instead, I chose to forge ahead with preparing the card faces for the development cards. All the development card faces, including the text, but excluding their illustrations, are done. I need only add their illustrations, and they'll be ready for printing. I've included the largest army and longest road cards among this development card set for purposes of getting them drawn up.

So now, what I expect to be the most difficult, longest, and most arduous task of all the card graphics work is now ahead of me; that being the illustrations for the development cards.

As I did before, I will likely begin with soliders. I've got at least three different soldiers I want to draw up; possibly a fourth, in fact. Is it more than necessary? Yes. But doing so will enrich the final product in the end, I think; so why not?

Drawn of the Dead

Believe it or not this project is still not dead; it just goes into frequent hibernation.

I pulled my graphics files off my flash drive onto my laptop's hard drive, making them more conveniently accessed. Consequently, I've gotten back into the swing of rebuilding the card graphics again.

It's slow going; there's a lot to rebuild. The last couple of evenings saw me make progress in the form of rebuilt Card Back designs, and reasonable progress on rebuilding the resource card faces. The resource icons are done; they were fully recovered, thankfully. But the actual resource card faces were not fully recovered; on a positive note though, there was one complete resource card face, and a partially complete resource card face recovered after the flash drive crash.

Last night, I prepared all five resource card faces for completion. The titles, shield colors, and main icons are in place; all that remains to complete them is to appropriately revise the building cost lists in the lower banners. Where the resource card faces are concerned though, that's actually the tough bit.

Hopefully I'll get the resource card faces rebuilt this weekend, ready to move onto something else soon afterwards. I know I still have to rebuild the Hex Tile Number Chits; those will be easy enough once I get to them.

Well, enough rambling from me for now; I ought to get back to work on it all.