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Hello! I'm new to posting in this forum, but have been lurking for a month or two.  I think I initially read about bitcoin in a forbes article, and thought wow, this sounds like pirate money! Cool! XD

In all seriousness though,  I see the value in accepting bitcoin for doing some freelance illustration, which is where my interests lie.  After I get my portfolio up online, I'll be sure to advertise my skills in the services section.

In the meantime, I thought I'd share one of my projects with the community.  I originally designed Mariopoly for my group of friends, before knowing about Parker Brothers' version of the game.  My version isn't just re-skinned though, it has some slight differences in play (I've included some rules in a zip file).

Here are some sample pictures:

https://i.imgur.com/jJHVXaL.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/a8aiYxn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Fydaymd.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zzDMTuR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Vwy7KAB.jpg


If you're interested in making a printout of the game for yourself, I've included a link to a zip file:


http://www19.zippyshare.com/v/15455346/file.html

The zip contains board game, title deeds, mushroom(community chest) and coinbox(chance) cards, 1ups(houses) and castles(motels), and currency.  There's no printout for the player tokens though, so you'll have to be creative with that. ;)

All files are in pdf format and ready for print.   

If you enjoy the game & would like to make a donation, send to here:

1N9bHdW4V8pG9KTAs5iLoQ6AJEabp6LGsn

Thanks for your time!

That seems very cool; well done. :) As for the player tokens, or any other project that may require it, I would suggest you team up with someone with a 3D printer. I'm sure there are quite a few people in this forum that would be willing to help.

yes very nice. My wife has a friend that loves monopoly maybe i can get her to try a new version :) Any twists in rules?  3d printing is a great idea. Haboro should hire you to do the nintendo edition of monopoly.

Steve
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Welcome to the forums.  It looks like a very nice game modification.

Thanks for the 3-d printing idea! I'll keep that in mind for next time.  Didn't realize they were getting cheap enough for home use, that's pretty cool. It would have saved me a lot of time too, as I made another set by hand for my sister.  I ended up using really cheap terracotta modeling clay designed for kids, so it was kinda difficult and frustrating to work with. lol

As for the rules, the goal of the game is still the same.  There are certainly a lot of twists though.  Travelling the board is a bit crazy.  Instead of the railroads you purchase in traditional Monopoly, you use a pipeline network that jumps you around the board depending on what your dice roll is.  That's one of the ways you get into the Beetle Expressway (the diagonal row on the board). There are also numerous cards you get to hold on to, so that you can be a bit more strategic. Stuff like shells, stars, and fireflowers you can use to target the person in the lead and make them lose coins(mario kart style).  Also the board dimensions are a bit different (11 x 10 squares) which might be frustrating for some players. This doesn't bother me at all, but frustrates my husband who gets a bit thrown off by this when moving his token. :P For example, if you roll a 10 while being on a corner, it doesn't necessarily mean you get to jump to the next corner (you'd go past it on the short side).  Anyhoo, for the full rules, read the text file that I included in the zip file.  If anything doesn't make sense in there or I left something out, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.

Thanks for your kind comments guys. :)

Why not have a tournament with your friends. Make it interesting, and tell them to put up bitcoins per game. "Winner takes all"

Instead of using $ as on your notes, make it Satoshis.  ;D

You could fund this with faucet payments, if they do not have BTC yet, just create wallets for them.

Good work.

That looks very interesting and nicely done, and I like your new rules, specially for the fireflowers. :D

 Great idea! I love boardgames. Hope you can invent more games and sets.
 I'm trying not to advertise, but you should probably try some alt-coins that oriented to start-ups|crowdfunding or business oriented. Not only rely on donations but try to make something bigger. There are some dying cryptos with friendly communities (like Globe) or something still promising - like dolphincoin or swarm... I just mean you have a little chance to be an early adopter and significant player with alternative cryptocoins, not the mainstream bitcoin. but it's always good to accept bitcoin. Digital gold standart ).

 

awesome boardgame lol.

I love yoshi!  :P

You would still need to create the models to print (say, with a program like blender) or download them from somewhere, but yeah, 3d printing would be ideal for this sort of thing, and far easier to use on the long run. As for the rules, they seem quite appropriate to the theme. ;)

That actually sounds like a lot of fun to do.  :)  I love betting on games (do this a lot in Boggle of all games... lol). I'd really like to do something like this, but I've had a hard enough time convincing my husband that bitcoin isn't a scam.  I've offered to send him some bits to play with, but he's really not interested. Maybe he'll warm up to the idea in the future. As for friends, I think I'd just end up seeing a glazed look in their eyes.


Thanks! I really would like to make an original board game when I get the time. As it is now, I have a bad habit of starting projects that only get half finished, so I'm trying to finish those up first.  I'll try to take a look into the alt-coins as you suggest, though I'm not really concerned about being an early adopter. Ideally I would just like to do some side-work for some coin.


Yes he's one of my favs too. =)  Him & Koopa Troopa.


I don't have any experience with 3-d modeling software, so I should probably work on learning that. :) Out of curiousity, are there 3-d scanners available as well?  Or are those pretty pricy?  Either way, I can't afford it, but would be a nice toy for down the road. :P

I'm under the impression that there are some affordable 3d scanners out there, but I haven't really looked into it yet to be honest. On the other hand, you have plenty of models you can download from the net, in sites like thingiverse, for example:

Mario and Bowser - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:338542 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:338542)
Mario figurine stand - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:231246 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:231246)
Yoshi - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:211601 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:211601)
Mario - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:27678 (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:27678)

http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/1c/20/37/cf/19/Mario_Posed_-_UPSAMPLED_preview_featured.jpg

I haven't checked all the models, but they seem to be fairly high quality, and should be printer ready. Have fun. :)

Sorry but monopoly type of game is really boring, you should try the game bang!, its really fun.

So that is your work?
This is really impressive. It is nice that you share that.
Design is really great. I like it a lot.
Have you tried to sell boardgames?
That is just question, cause I think that you are very, very good at that.

there should be a boardgame that can incorporate betting/bitcoin/altcoins into it somehow... this would be quite hawt... like monopoly where each person puts up the same ante say 0.05... get the default set of 'cash'... then play to timer, first to a $ amount, or first to hotel... winner gets all bets

Not buying that you had never heard of Monopoly before. Far too many similarities.  there is also hundreds if not thousands of different types of monopoly, you had to have known. 

As for anyone that says Monopoly isn't fun.  They've obviously not played after a few beers or taken it serious enough.  My g.f. and I play it with my mother often.  My mother is ruthless when it comes to playing.  The games can get pretty heated.

Interesting, there appears to already be a Super Mario Brothers Monopoly board game:

http://www.bitrebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Super-Mario-Bros-Monopoly-3.jpg

monopoly style video game board game. This is awesome.!

Thanks for the links to the models, they certainly would work very well. Are different colours available in 3-d printing?  Or would I have to paint them afterwards?


I admit that Monopoly isn't the most intense board game, but I find it to be very inclusive (it's a happy medium between something like Axis & Allies and Candyland).  It's a simple game to decide on in a large group of friends with varying interests.  Anyhoo, it was my hope that the twists would make it more fun to play, or as others have said you can turn it into a drinking game.  Anytime someone passes go, you take a shot.  That would get kinda dangerous really quickly though! ;)


Yes, it's my work, although character designs belong to Nintendo obviously. :)


I think maybe I didn't word that quite right.  I wasn't claiming to have thought of the concept of Monopoly... the game was invented well before I was born! XD  I was specifically referring to Mariopoly.  I had not seen this version in stores before.  Some friends of mine had talked about making up their own versions of Monopoly and this is what I came up with a while ago.



There are a lot of reasons I won't be marketing this in the future so you won't be able to buy it.  If you really would like to play it, I have all the pdfs in the zipped file that I linked to in OP. They're print ready. You're more than welcome to download them and print yourself a copy for your enjoyment.

Ah, my bad.  With the clarification I see what you are saying now. monopoly is such an interesting concept as a game.  As i mentioned in a previous post. I play it often. It can be played with so many different strategies, and no game seems to play out the same as the last.

personally, I love the game, but I've also been playing it since I was a kid so I may be biased.

I do like the looks of your version, looks like you put a lot of work into it.

No worries. :) I quite enjoy it too and agree it gets fun with the strategy of trading/playing politics. If you're only playing with two people it becomes boring really fast though.  This happened to my husband and I when we were stuck in a small town for a weekend with no internet access & rainy weather.  All we had available for games was Possumopoly (The Red Green Show version of the game).  Was fun at first, but got old really fast. lol

well thanks for this , finally my family got a new toys for saturday evening family time

 ;D good luck and god bless you  ;D

Just wanted to say, nice job on this, lynx :-)  Thank you for sharing the game with us.

Celroc A

This is really cool.  Nice that you're giving for free too. Any other games on the horizon?  I can think of
Some other awesome boar games I really miss..

Wow your work is very cool man!
You really should offer your service in the services section of our board.
Im sure you will get more clients here!
More bitcoins for you bro!!!

GOODLUCK!

I use to play monopoly back high school. Thanks for the mariopdfs!
This will introduce my kid to mario brothers. :D

Well, I think it depends on the method the 3d printer uses, but at least some are capable of producing models in different colors. That said, I kind of doubt the variety of colors and details required by these models would be easy to print; so, the safest bet is, you'll probably still need to paint them afterwards. But I could very well be wrong on that. :)