Post by Koruam on Sept 20, 2007 17:27:44 GMT 1
When I was sorting and finding my cardgame scattered across my room, I found out a great fact....
The Chronicles of Eesgo exists 5 years this year =D *Celebrates* I didnt know the exact year anymore but I found on one of my cards that I was busy with it from 2002 untill now XD time sure flies...
Anyway here's a quick review of all these years of my hard work.
It was 2003 when I started working on the cardgame and as you see below, on the Koruam card and the Jinn card, these where just handdrawn and handwritten.
I didn't have any knowledge whatsoever on paint/photoshop/paintshop so I had to draw it.
The card measurments where 8.8 cm by 6.3 cm just like a magic card.
The first set concluded of 60 cards.
The second and third sets where handdrawn as well in mid 2004.
It was late 2004 when I started remaking the first set on the computer, using paint.
I used the existing art because it was still in the testing phase.
As you can see I removed the Movement box below, because I found out that it was too complex and the testers didnt like the mechanic.
Note that these remakes where printed with a card back seen below, I accidently printed them with a Dutch back, which had to say: The Sword of Koruam (the old title of my book, afterwards I changed it to The Chronicles of Eesgo) I never printed cards with backs again because of the huge amount of black ink.
Only 5 cards where actually printed because I didnt like the cheap look of the cards.
2005:
I finally got my guts together and started experimenting with painstshop.
Also I cleaned up all the unneccesary rules like the lvl box on the left, the Speed box on the bottom right and the HP/Flag/Magic box.
This was the first print to be printed on cardboard and only 15 cards made it into reality because I found out once the cards dried that the text wasnt very readable anymore.
Later that year I joined a forum of cardgame creators and I asked for help with my templates. One of them offered his help and he created a template I would use for the next 2 years.
Below you see two versions of Koruam, the first drawn by Guido Soetens missed the heart, shield and sword in their boxes. Guido soetens drew me another Koruam which you can see in my avatar, after that he was too busy with school and I lost my only artist at the time.
Time went by and I wasnt sure if I should continue now that I didnt have an artist left. It was 2006 when I met Antonio Hoogervorst and told him about the cardgame, I found out that he was an artist and I asked him if he could draw me a Koruam art which I could use for my cardgame. He agreed and I was very proud at the time to show the guys at the cardgame creators forum his work.
Note the Heart, shield and sword in their boxes.
It was only yesterday that I decided to try paintshop again and this is what I got out of it, I reduced the space needed for each text so that there is more room for the art (which is very important to me, a cardgame is made popular by it's art.) and again I used the infamous Koruam art by Antonio.
This is just a preview of what my cardgame is all about and this was just the history of it. Next time I will explain the elements of a card.
See you then!
The Chronicles of Eesgo exists 5 years this year =D *Celebrates* I didnt know the exact year anymore but I found on one of my cards that I was busy with it from 2002 untill now XD time sure flies...
Anyway here's a quick review of all these years of my hard work.
It was 2003 when I started working on the cardgame and as you see below, on the Koruam card and the Jinn card, these where just handdrawn and handwritten.
I didn't have any knowledge whatsoever on paint/photoshop/paintshop so I had to draw it.
The card measurments where 8.8 cm by 6.3 cm just like a magic card.
The first set concluded of 60 cards.
The second and third sets where handdrawn as well in mid 2004.
It was late 2004 when I started remaking the first set on the computer, using paint.
I used the existing art because it was still in the testing phase.
As you can see I removed the Movement box below, because I found out that it was too complex and the testers didnt like the mechanic.
Note that these remakes where printed with a card back seen below, I accidently printed them with a Dutch back, which had to say: The Sword of Koruam (the old title of my book, afterwards I changed it to The Chronicles of Eesgo) I never printed cards with backs again because of the huge amount of black ink.
Only 5 cards where actually printed because I didnt like the cheap look of the cards.
2005:
I finally got my guts together and started experimenting with painstshop.
Also I cleaned up all the unneccesary rules like the lvl box on the left, the Speed box on the bottom right and the HP/Flag/Magic box.
This was the first print to be printed on cardboard and only 15 cards made it into reality because I found out once the cards dried that the text wasnt very readable anymore.
Later that year I joined a forum of cardgame creators and I asked for help with my templates. One of them offered his help and he created a template I would use for the next 2 years.
Below you see two versions of Koruam, the first drawn by Guido Soetens missed the heart, shield and sword in their boxes. Guido soetens drew me another Koruam which you can see in my avatar, after that he was too busy with school and I lost my only artist at the time.
Time went by and I wasnt sure if I should continue now that I didnt have an artist left. It was 2006 when I met Antonio Hoogervorst and told him about the cardgame, I found out that he was an artist and I asked him if he could draw me a Koruam art which I could use for my cardgame. He agreed and I was very proud at the time to show the guys at the cardgame creators forum his work.
Note the Heart, shield and sword in their boxes.
It was only yesterday that I decided to try paintshop again and this is what I got out of it, I reduced the space needed for each text so that there is more room for the art (which is very important to me, a cardgame is made popular by it's art.) and again I used the infamous Koruam art by Antonio.
This is just a preview of what my cardgame is all about and this was just the history of it. Next time I will explain the elements of a card.
See you then!
