Watch your back, Hasbro, 3D-printed games have arrived
September 2, 2012
Pocket Tactics is an open source table top game you print yourself — even the dice (credit: Ill Gotten Games)
Ill Gotten Games‘ Pocket Tactics is the first open-source miniatures game designed to be manufactured on a 3D printer, Wired Design reports.
Consisting of character figurines, tiles, and dice, the pieces can be downloaded from Thingiverse and printed on a MakerBot. A complete set of parts takes several hours to extrude, but games can be played in just over 20 minutes.
The use of Tinkercad, a web based CAD program that works like a set of digital Legos, lets fans expand and modify the game easily. Because everything is designed and hosted in the cloud you can almost magically transform a character like the Dwarven Forge Master into a 1970s cop without extensive software training.
Comments (3)
by Tim K.
MakerBot costs a lot more… NOW.
They should be prepared for the future, prices will decrease like they did for computers and all the tech stuff.
by Gorden Russell
Don’t worry about the Games Workshop. The MakerBot costs a lot more than copy of Warhammer 40,000 so they’ll still make their investment back.
But still, ya gotta love these open-source people. Most of the things we will grow out of sunlight and carbon-dioxide after the singularity will come from open-source designs. Most of us just won’t have the money to buy the big-name designs online.
by Khannea Suntzu
Bad news for Games Workshop who invested in stores everywhere. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landing.jsp?catId=cat440130a&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k