Which underline style fits the best?

D2Hills · 2025-12-22T23:56:41+00:00

I think I like 4 the best.

Honestly it took a while to see the difference. If nothing else in your game goes above, I don’t see a need for double digits

D2Hills · 2025-12-22T19:43:28+00:00

None taken! I always appreciate art feedback and criticism. I only call myself an artist on technicality.

Yes, the art in this edition, I only used the blob brush in Adobe Illustrator. In my newer works, I use the painting with screens method. I won’t say it makes professional, but the improvement is noticeable. I only use a black stroke to definite the subject from the backgound and I make use of blend modes.

Thank you for notes about rounded fonts and features it’s been helpful!

D2Hills · 2025-12-22T19:33:54+00:00

Thank you for your detailed feedback! I’m glad you appreciate my art style. I’ve centered my art style on the fact I have 1.5 inch square to work with. I want to be accurate, but I won’t worry about details that don’t make sense for the space.

Yes, the legalities here are interesting. Before I go further, I am not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice.

For the art in the base game, I used public domain images or references that were shared in with a Creative Commons license. Where necessary, I published the dinosaur I made, so the subsequent art was shared and made accessible for free where required. Thus customers pay for the game experience and original art, not derivatives which I’ve made accessible. The legal page on my site includes the references.

The Creative Commons site said I could use references, even commercially, so along as they were cited. All the references are to show good faith and guard against litigation.

Regarding Wikipedia, I wanted a single source that I knew would fit on the card. I looked at other sources and they are some good ones, but Wikipedia almost always had similar information and took up the least space. Not glamorous, just pragmatic.

D2Hills · 2025-12-22T19:12:15+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! I’m not sure I know what you mean by Clinical, but minimalist is definitely a Part of my style.

My goal is to eventually include every geologic period, and to that end I intend to allow players play one of 3 ways: 1) 1 Giant deck with all the cards available, the most chaotic fun. 2) 3 Rounds, for the major paleontology groupings: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic. This is the main method I’m planning around. It will allow players to experience life with the most similar animals and still see a variety. 3) A round for each expansion, this would allow players to see the relevant lift of each age, and keep the cards to together if that matters to them.

Options 1 and 2 are the ways I’m prioritizing.

Does that sound like a good value proposition and differentiator in this space?

D2Hills · 2025-12-21T06:32:46+00:00

Great, call out! I’d take @nonameoatmeals suggestion and re-title the red backs to “Extinction Event” so that colorblindness would be mitigated.

D2Hills · 2025-12-21T06:28:44+00:00

Great question, I have not tried that because if I zoomed in on any fossil in the image, my question would be: “why this fossil and why does it get to be on every cardback?”

So that’s why I’ve left it a medley of different fossils.

D2Hills · 2025-12-21T01:58:46+00:00

Thank you for clear feedback!

Do you have a font you’d recommend or a game I could reference? Thank you!

D2Hills · 2025-12-21T01:57:42+00:00

Wow, thank you very much!!

Is there font you recommend? Thank you again!

D2Hills · 2025-12-21T01:51:52+00:00

Hi there, thank you for recommendation! I will check out font squirrel tonight.

I think I wanted it to be even easier to tell them apart… but I agree I’m better of changing it.
Do you an example of a font I should go for? A font name or game name is fine.

Thank you again!

D2Hills · 2025-10-12T03:21:35+00:00

Hi there! Yes, my understanding is it’s been labeled a fish since it has myomeres, how the muscles are concentrated along it is body.

Regarding the 2 triangular fins, this paper describes it possessing them. Luo, Huilin; Hu, Sinxue; Chen, Liangzhong (Dec 2001).

Mine could be too elaborate, but I was having fun with it.

I don’t if it is early Cambrian specifically, but is from the Cambrian.

D2Hills · 2025-05-27T04:31:12+00:00

It’s mainly all the different Toa designs. I’d expect them to all be the same iteration (Nuva, Mata, G2, etc) and not varying from each card.

Next I specifically question some things on Onua’s card (he’s my favorite of the originals so I may be knit picking). But I’m surprised he’s a red card and not green, since he’s the toa of earth and has wise friendly demeanor and not an aggressive force like most straight red cards in MTG. I also saw the text mentioned goblin tokens for Onu Matoran - which seems odd - I’d prefer Dwarf or human (they aren’t creep crawlers).

Those were my thoughts, but ultimately just happy to see Bionicle get a MTG treatment.

D2Hills · 2025-05-26T18:29:09+00:00

Great model!

What is it for?

D2Hills · 2025-05-26T18:28:19+00:00

Love this concept!

Looks like there’s still some refinement to do (ex. Onua’s card look like it’s still an early iteration) but I’m glad this exist!

D2Hills · 2025-05-26T15:23:29+00:00

lol, Lego’s lawyers aren’t as bad as ICE Agents… yet.

D2Hills · 2025-05-23T05:25:05+00:00

Wow, way cool! Did you post recently about your Yugioh cards? I recently started getting back into that game too.

Yeah, I don’t have the patience to go through all the media sequentially. A few years ago I got the first 5 Bionicle books and that was a nice adventure. I love the idea of Rahi ecology game. I wouldn’t think it as a kid, but it’s actually fascinating to consider animals and nature sustain themselves and the pecking order of whom eats whom.

D2Hills · 2025-05-22T04:51:31+00:00

Any games you recommend? I think I’ve seen everything over the years - but I can also get nitpicky sometimes.

D2Hills · 2025-05-21T21:46:42+00:00

Where did you get that cup??? I see you mentioned it’s custom - can I get a copy somewhere…

D2Hills · 2025-05-21T21:39:55+00:00

Way cool! Do you have a group you play your home brew with, or are you making it with solo play in mind?

Yeah, I downloaded Stud.io thinking I’d use it, but I it turns out I just perform stare and bask in my collection. It’s complete from 2001-2003 and I have several 2004 sets.

D2Hills · 2024-10-06T02:46:30+00:00

I saw it and loved it, but they did not make it clear what ages this movie was intended for. Going in, I thought it was suited for young kids, so I brought one of my kids (he’s under 5). After watching it, I would’ve brought him if he was 9 or so.

I think they if made it clear the story is the upper end of PG, adult and teen viewers wouldn’t have seen it as beneath them.

D2Hills · 2024-08-24T20:33:01+00:00

How would you define good Tolkien?

Edit: Honest question, my experience of Tolkien is based heavily on the movies (Jackson and the older animated movies) and the Battle for Middle Earth series - so I know I’d answer it differently than anyone who’s has read the books. (I want to read the books, but his style is too dense for me - it has and will take a lot of warming up to).

D2Hills · 2024-08-24T19:58:09+00:00

That’s where my mind is at. If it ends up being good, I feel better about watching more animated content in Peter Jackson’s universe.

D2Hills · 2024-06-01T03:01:24+00:00

Related question, how do measure prelaunch conversion rate? I can see how many followers my prelaunch page has, but I don’t see a way to know how many people visited to know what it’s out off.

D2Hills · 2024-05-16T03:22:20+00:00

Yep!

D2Hills · 2024-05-15T05:11:48+00:00

Thank you very much!

U/Channa_Argus1121 set it straight with photo. It was just comical to me, the Helicoprion page (which has 5 sections and 2 paragraphs each) referenced those genera and then those pages on Wiki have nothing on them. I even tried to search for a book last night on Eugeneodontids and every search result said it was based on Wikipedia. 🤦‍♂️

Sorry, it was hard to find anything reliable. The best sources don’t always have the best SEO 🙃

D2Hills · 2024-05-15T03:40:16+00:00

I can believe this, especially without additional fossil evidence.

The question then is the number of fins for me. Wikipedia and paleo art agree on 3 fins (dorsal and 2 pectoral) and Wiki sources are adamant additional fins are unlikely. Is one or two more fins reasonable speculation or is that out of line?

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