It validates our idea, builds a community working with us and demonstrates to potential investors that their is a demand out there. It’s been difficult to convince investors and we need more funds to continue developing, so the crowd funding has several benefits beyond the money itself. So, our long term aim is not to make money from the models, but from empowering people to create for themselves. Later this year, we will have an application that will allow you to construct completely unique new models of that quality yourself. We’ve been working on the next two applications that do that, and your seeing the current result of that work in the models you have in this campaign. That’s our long term business focus, to build applications that allow anyone to construct their own models for 3D printing.
Fluff’s Robot Factory, an application that allowed kids build simple robots using a genetic algorithm. Salt tells me: R2D bots printed in nickel- and gold-plated steel. Among the first approved MakerBot-Ready Apps, Robot Factory allows users to create fun robots whose designs evolve based on user preferences through the company’s “evolutionary algorithm based engine.” Both Robot Factory and OBG are the result of a larger goal for ThinkerThing, that of making the design of 3D printable models an easy and fun process for everyday individuals. Fluff’s Robot Factory, covered on 3DPI last year.
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Salt’s company, ThinkerThing, is responsible for the Android App Mr. OBG isn’t Salt’s first 3D printing rodeo. Backing the campaign also gets funders access to the OBG members site, where they’ll also have access to Miomon, a Pokemon-style card game.
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Though three of these robots are available for free download, backing OBG on Indiegogo earns funders access to more of the game’s printable files or, for a little bit more, the game pieces themselves, printed via a pro 3D printing service. Like the tile pieces, the R2D pieces are meant to be 3D printed without any difficulties. The strategy game sees clans of various robots, the surviving members of a dying civilization, fight with different movements, strengths, and weaknesses. To kick things off, OBG created its own example game called Rust to Dust (R2D). And, through the community, members will be able to hack and modify each other’s pieces to extend gameplay even further – a genius idea! I can imagine, eventually, the merging of worlds, with all games folding into the same universe. OBG members can upload their own creations for others to download, greatly expanding the gaming possibilities for all members. OBG’s community serves as a venue for sharing further board game characters, cards, and ideas. R2D figures printed on MakerBot and Ultimaker 3D printers, demonstrating the ease of structureless prints. All tiles are meant to be 3D printed without support structures, to minimize hassle. The pieces are designed in such a way that they can be stacked, for vertical, 3D gameplay, and OBG has designed tiles that make room for servos and sensors to create interactive pieces.
The board has been designed with a hexagonal pattern that allows for the easy interlocking of pieces, but OBG has added some unique elements to the board pieces to allow for exciting new gameplay ideas. It’s called Open Board Game, an online platform and community for the easy design and construction of boards, pieces, and characters for tabletop gaming. But, rather than pursue the works of a large manufacturer, why not invent your own board game? Or, better yet, create a platform for anyone to create and share their own tabletop game? That’s what Bryan Salt and his company ThinkerThing are working towards, via a new Indiegogo campaign. There have been a number of Makers that have pursued the 3D printing of game pieces for such popular games as Warhammer 40k and Carcassonne, perhaps infringing on the IP of one major manufacturer or another.
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