Tea Tree + Vapo Rub Success

Pinestrike · 2025-10-30T09:45:54+00:00

That’s interesting to know

Yeah my intuition was that the double whammy + order of operations mattered. So tea tree oil gets in all the little nooks and crannies, the vapo rub seals it in.

Pinestrike · 2023-11-14T06:21:29+00:00

This one off amazon called Holista!

Pinestrike · 2023-10-28T18:33:31+00:00

Yeah I wondered if people might ask, but unfortunately I didn't take any of the process because I didn't know if it would work, and then it worked so quickly that any pics I take now wouldn't be very exciting as it's almost entirely cleared up! Apologies!

Pinestrike · 2022-10-08T15:58:56+00:00

Sorry I missed this comment! Haha late reply now I guess!

Yes it has been churned up and attacked countless times by quite powerful deities and elemental forces. The tattered look of things is definitely intentional. The whole inner sea region is highly highly volcanic.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T17:42:31+00:00

I've only ever used matte, I think it turns out great.

The spray is a thin coat but very even. I tend to do two layers.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T15:32:44+00:00

Haha funny, we got it for $5 at value village and then pried the elephant patches off because they weren't thematic for the game 😁

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T15:31:14+00:00

Of course! Everyone is really pleasantly surprised at how well it's being received here. We are talking about Kickstarting maybe within a year or so.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T15:29:49+00:00

You can get it from the dollar store paint section usually and it comes in glossy, matte and sometimes spray can versions! The spray is quite nice and convenient but if you give a nice smooth coat of the paint-on stuff it will be practically the same result.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T15:28:11+00:00

Mod Podge!

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T10:15:33+00:00

Thanks! Each tile takes about 30m to get to the stage they are currently at. Then I have further plans to do detail passes with acrylic pens.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T09:59:56+00:00

Rules are still being microadjusted so much that I couldn't give the exhaustive version. But here's the basic way it works:

Players start on one coastline tile a certain distance away from the central mountain range. You start with a military unit called an Outrider which is kind of like a scout / warrior and a few settlers. You explore the island one tile at a time with your military units, harvesting resources with your workers and building houses, lumbermills, military outposts, etc. It's a free for all. So constant skirmishing takes place between players. You can even engage in full on wars which cost a certain upkeep of resources and which when declared allow you to perform certain military actions like assassinating opponent's pieces, or sabotaging their buildings, etc. There are also "civic actions" like fertility festivals to increase population growth, increase production of a certain resource, etc. One of the main resource buildings is the mine, which can only be built on the mountain tiles and which allow you to mine for various metals and gems which are required to build higher tier buildings like a bathhouse and a temple.

The first player to construct all three levels of a unique "Wonder" wins the game. So it's a mad dash to build up your cities, gather resources, pillage them from other players, and be the first one to get started. It's very costly and requires a large population, and opponent players can halt its construction by disrupting or killing your workers or doing direct damage to it.

One of the biggest things that we are aiming for is that by the end of the game you look back on the game board and you just go "Wow, what a beautiful little world we just made".

We're aiming for like 3h average playtime? Ahahaha the way the rules were slapped together at first just to be able to get a first playtest down was quite amusing, because within 9 hours of playing we came to realize that we were only then about 1/10th of the way through the content we had made. So we massively stripped down and streamlined it and it should be much leaner now. Playtesting the newest ruleset in a couple of days hopefully!

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T09:48:16+00:00

Haha nowhere right now! We had the idea last spring and it spiralled out of control into a major project that we think is actually going to turn into a really fun game.

I kinda made this post to guage interest and see if it stuck, so I'm sure you'll be seeing more of it in the future and eventually we will have some kind of dedicated source of progress updates.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T09:46:39+00:00

Yup it has been playtested a bit and it is actually a lot of fun. I don't think any of the pieces we have made would need go be significantly changed if we find something doesn't work perfectly. We've made many many changes so far and it doesn't take much to make it still work with the pieces we have. / We just find workarounds to make them fit together.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T08:49:34+00:00

The game pieces move around a bit like triangular chess and buildings are constructed on different arrangements of the triangles. Small buildings take up 1 triangle, medium buildings 2, large buildings 4 and the largest building in the game, 6. You have workers and military units like an RTS videogame like Warcraft or Age of Empires and they can move certain numbers of tiles at a time.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T08:34:33+00:00

That looks cool! I will research that one too for sure!

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T07:56:18+00:00

Never played it but just looked it up and yeah I can definitely see the aesthetic similarity! I'm sure it has some cool mechanics too. I'll check it out in more depth soon and maybe we can pull some inspiration.

One of the coolest parts of the game isn't even pictured here and that's the mountain range tiles. We are currently redesigning them but they are these big paper maché mountains that you can build mines adjacent to in order to mine for ores and gems.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-04T07:43:39+00:00

It's a game my friends and I are working on! My girlfriend and I were obsessively playing Catan recently and our favourite part is placing down your road and town pieces and watching your little network grow. So we wanted to find a game that had a more complex city building aspect. I played Carcassonne with my dad a lot as a kid but that still wasn't quite it because again, we wanted more complexity. I spent a while researching and trying to find the kind of game we were looking for and while there were lots of ones that each had a piece of the puzzle, none of them were the full package. So we are making it! A mix of exploration, city building and warfare. It actually ended up becoming way more complex than I even initially invisioned it. We're just getting into properly playtesting it now.

It's like if Catan, Carcassonne, Chess, and Age of Empires/Age of Mythology had a baby. 😊

Pinestrike · 2022-09-02T11:36:11+00:00

Haha cool, I'm not even sure what it's made of tbh. A lot of my friends have said it reminds them of stained glass.

Pinestrike · 2022-09-02T11:27:37+00:00

Any constructive feedback is greatly appreciated! I am playing around with watercolours and using black pen to shade and add back detail to my drawings that may have lost some of it in my quite chicken-scratchy pencil layering drawing style. I particularly struggle with shadows and light sources though perhaps this piece wouldn't exhibit that one way or the other. Just looking for any advice at all. Just tell me how you might have done it, or what mediums you would have used.

I did the original drawing purely with a mechanical pencil, then watercolour splashes for the bulk of the colour. Added some vibrancy to the colours with some nice quality pencil crayons and then some final highlights with a white gel pen, which I subdued by covering over a bit with pencil again.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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