62 lines
1.6 KiB
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62 lines
1.6 KiB
Markdown
# What this is
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These are files to print and play a detective game my family enjoys.
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It's entirely in black and white.
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I don't own a color printer,
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but I do own colored pencils.
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The rooms are big open spaces
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and the suspects and weapons are just clip art.
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I'm not good at art,
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so I had to use stuff other people made.
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You wind up with a kind of generic looking game.
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However,
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you should feel encouraged
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to draw your own decorations
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on everything.
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There's lots of empty space for this!
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# How I made mine
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I printed everything but the weapon tokens on
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something that felt like about 80-pound glossy card stock.
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The cards were run through a Cricut CNC machine using the
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`card-cuts-4x4.svg` file,
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to give them nice rounded edges.
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The board pieces I cut by hand with a scrapbooking paper cutter.
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The weapon tokens were sent through the Cricut.
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I used the Android version of their app,
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which doesn't allow print and cut,
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so I just ran it through twice:
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once printing both layers,
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and once cutting only the circles.
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We colored the bands on the player and weapon cards
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using some colored pencils,
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and my daughter drew furniture in the rooms and on the room cards.
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# Parts you can't print
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* A six-sided die
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* Different-colored pawns or tokens, for players/suspects
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# Why tiny cards?
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Cheapass Games made a fun game called "Kill Doctor Lucky"
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which uses tiny cards.
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Kill Doctor Lucky is,
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as of this writing,
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offered for free download from the
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Crab Fragment Labs game preserve.
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I actually made the 4x4 template for Kill Doctor Lucky.
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I thought it would be cute to have the detective game
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use the same size cards as the murder game.
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