❖ Version History ❖ 29th of June 2022Previously on the Librarium Games Design Journal we laid out the whole production process behind creating enamel pins with a manufacturer. Today, we are going to take a moment to appreciate the stunning beauty of our production prototypes that arrived in the mail today (featured in the image […]
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❖ Version History ❖ 15th-21st of June 2022As we had discussed a few chapters back in the Librarium games Design Journal during our conversation on ‘Muychandizin‘ (part 28 of the Calendra Journal), we had started looking into other products that could be made to support the fun of Calendra in stylish ways. One of the
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❖ Version History ❖ 12-15th of June 2022When producing anything on card stock through a professional printer, you have a very challenging choice that must be faced: are you going to laminate it, and do you choose to use gloss or matte lamination on your final designs? Well, while it is unfortunately not as environmentally
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❖ Version History ❖ 10th of June 2022As you may have gathered from the thirty posts we’ve done on Calendra by now, getting a game from the personal ‘print on demand’ prototype to the fully produced item in the professional manufacturing landscape has about 100,000 steps to it. As we have discussed in some recent
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❖ Version History ❖ 1st of November 2021 – 10th of June 2022Throughout the course of this past year, Librarium Games has gone from being a hobby based game design idea to a fully fledged business. In this transformation, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the graphic design that goes into all of
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❖ Version History ❖ 15th of May, 2022As of right now, The Design Journal is still in a bit of a… simultaneous timeline storytelling mode. If you’ve been paying any attention to the dates at the start of these entries… well… I’m sorry. For a while we skipped ahead with the actual graphic design narrative
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❖ Version History ❖ 8th of March, 2022 ❖ Warning: this one is a bit wordy… ❖ Through the last four or so chapters in the Calendra Design Journal, we have been discussing all manor of finishing procedures that needed to be enacted on the graphic design to bring Calendra from its prototype phase into
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❖ Version History ❖ 24th of May, 2022I’m not sure how many times I’m going to have to say it before I feel justified, but man, rule books suck to write. I think by this point in the month, I have gone rightfully insane… like truly, a total loss of sanity. Between rereading every single
Calendra, Part #25: Rule Book, Take Three! Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ 1st of May, 2022Through most of March and April there were two distinct things going on in the design of Calendra: an astronomical amount of work has been going into hunting for manufacturing opportunities (which we will cover soon), and the entire design of the box had been redone up to
Calendra, Part #24: Rule Book, Take Two! Read More »
