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‘Tis the Season!

November 2, 2020 / / 0 Comments

An Exciting Week!

Welcome back! We had an exciting week at 3D Orcs, with the release of a brand new set of Catan game pieces, and a fun Halloween activity. I’m going to keep you in suspense just a little longer about the new Catan set (Hint: today’s blog title is a clue), and tell you about our Halloween fun first.

GISH Halloween Hunt

I hope you had a fun Halloween! At 3D Orcs we suspended operations for the weekend to take part in GISH – the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt. If you’ve never heard of it, I encourage you to check it out. Although it’s called a scavenger hunt, it’s more about creating fun things than finding them. There were dozens of items on the list, but we tackled just a few of them while our team mates worked on others. Here are some of our favorites…

We made this charcuterie Ouija board (essentially a themed meat tray) featuring pepperoni and ham.

And this evidence that the “unbread has risen” for the zombe apocalypse.

We also discovered the secret desires of a storm trooper.

And made ourselves into custom Tarot cards.

One of our most challenging tasks was creating this socially distanced trick-or-treat “aid”. It needed to be a Rube Goldberg device that could deliver candy from 10 feet away. The difficulty arose from needing to set up those dang dominoes over 30 times before we got a video where everything worked correctly!

We also enjoyed the new definition of “monster mash” – a classic movie monster made out of mashed potatoes. We were quite happy with our Frankenspud!

Did you do something fun for Halloween? Was your spookiness challenged because of COVID-19? Let us know in the comments below!

It’s Christmas in Catan!

Here’s our new set of Christmas-themed game pieces for Settlers of Catan!

Each set comes with 4 Christmas tree cities, 5 Christmas gift settlements, and 15 sled roads.

And anyone who buys four of these sets gets this FREE snowman robber as a special bonus!

The Catan board looks great decked out for Christmas!

Missed Our Halloween Sets?

Halloween may be over, but you can still get our Halloween-themed game pieces for either Settlers of Catan or Ticket to Ride.

More Christmas Fun Coming!

Those Christmas Catan pieces are great, but we’re working on more fun Christmas-themed game pieces. Come back next Monday to find out more!

Open for Business!

October 26, 2020 / / 0 Comments

We Did It!

Our Etsy shop is now up and running! It was another learning curve, but Etsy does a good job of walking you through the set up process. We launched with four different sets of game pieces available in ten colors.

Our Halloween Sets

I love the design we created for our Halloween-themed Settlers of Catan game pieces! The tombstone cities turned out especially well, and the pumpkin settlements and coffin roads are also fantastic!

We also have some great Halloween-themed Ticket to Ride game pieces, with coffin trains and pumpkin scoring markers.

These pieces all look amazing on the game boards, and are very fun to play with!

We Have Standard Sets Too

While the Halloween sets are our favorites, we also have standard sets for both Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride, for players who may need replacements for lost pieces, or just want to play with fun new colors.

A Peek Behind the Scenes

You may be interested in how we create designs like these. The simple pieces like the standard Catan pieces and Ticket to Ride scoring marker were pretty easy to create in Blender. The coffins and train took a little more work, but were still possible with the basic Blender tools. The pumpkins needed some special techniques, which we learned from this video by YouTuber TutsByKai and then adapted for the look we wanted.

For the tombstone Catan city, we had a vision, but needed some help. We found what we needed on CGTrader, a website full of excellent 3D models. The license terms prevent us from simply downloading models and then printing and selling them as-is, but we’re allowed to use them commercially if we modify them significantly and/or incorporate them into a larger work, and give attribution to the source designer(s). So we built the actual tombstone ourselves, and then added the skull, rat, and stones from models acquired from CGTrader.

New Sets Coming!

With Halloween nearly upon us, we’re already working on designs for our next themed sets, and some of them are almost ready to go! We expect to announce a new set in next week’s blog, but if you’re eager to see it as soon as it’s ready, follow us on Twitter, where we post everything the moment it’s available.

See you next week!

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