Now with the ability to drag & drop images 🥳 Here's a quick test with one I found on Unsplash.
So far it's just HTML, CSS, JS, and SVG. Once I have the SVG elements syncing across sheets (and different layouts, including the option to manually place) I'll add IndexedDB for some data persistence.
I realised I never posted the image / advent calendar we made last year that inspired this project, so, for context:
We made this last year for our board game project @BoardGameBeans
Where we had a different game to play each day.
I thought it could be cool to make a web tool so anyone can create one.
The goal is to provide three files, base layer, top layer, and then a cut layer SVG should folks have a Cricut or similar, and want to machine cut the windows like we did ☺️
@jake4480 ahah thanks Jake ☺️ It's incredibly niche, niche of the nicheeee - but it's been a great way to learn some new stuff and practice. And at the end we'll have a tool we ourselves would use.
This one isn't just for board games of course, so anyone can use it - but I do plan to expand it to use the BoardGameGeek API so folks can fetch games from their collections - but that's like, V2 of this lol. I've never done that before, so that'll be a fun thing to learn
@hejchristian ha! To start, I have this wild vintage Woody Woodpecker one wifey got me- I'll hafta get pics. It's pretty cool.
I have this other wild one that is such a cool concept but kinda weird - have you heard of Shadows in the Forest (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1070/shadows-in-the-forest)? Tried it with the in-laws and didn't have the best luck 😂 but it's a rad look and idea.
I also have this mini one called Boogerpacolypse my friend made - my son and I played. It's a blast, hand sculpted pieces, tokens, AND game board, just an amazing piece- the first pic below.
And then I have stuff like this mini Eek! the Cat one from a fast food prize in the 90s.
And I tracked down a vintage copy of the Tiddlywinks I had as a kid in the 80s (this copy is from 1970!) Gotta play that one with wifey.
Oh yeah and I recently found the complete Buffy game for PENNIES basically at thrift. Like less than $10. 🤯
@hejchristian 😂🤣 heck yeah! Board games - any kind of games are so cool. And it's so wild people have been playing board games like, forever haha
https://asianacircus.com/ancient-board-games-from-around-the-world
@jake4480 Yeah it's awesome! ooo Hnefatafl in that list is one I want - had a chance to pick up a touristy version from Iceland, I regret not getting it now 😅
There is this really cool project to bring new life to some of the ancient games,
https://lemerygames.com/pages/ludos-africa
I think they've done Africa, Asia, and Americas so far ☺️ Each area they've done 4 games from different countries :)
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