EricThe Shed | 25 Apr 2015 10:31 a.m. PST |
Hi Folks Just loaded up 120 pictures of ALL the games at Salute. Fabulous day – thanks to all the organisers… Pictures can be found here link If I have missed any game apologies |
Solzhenitsyn | 25 Apr 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
Great photo series, thanks for sharing. |
Von Trinkenessen | 25 Apr 2015 10:48 a.m. PST |
Thanks Eric great photos Maybe next year? |
Red3584 | 25 Apr 2015 11:00 a.m. PST |
Have you won the race to have the first blog report?? |
shadow king | 25 Apr 2015 11:01 a.m. PST |
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EricThe Shed | 25 Apr 2015 11:06 a.m. PST |
AlastairJ – I think that was the plan..;-) I left around four so was there for most of the day..home at five |
Chris Rance | 25 Apr 2015 11:13 a.m. PST |
Thank you very much – wish I could have been there. |
nevinsrip | 25 Apr 2015 11:18 a.m. PST |
No pix of Steve Jones' "Guilford Courthouse" game? |
Ryhopeoldboy | 25 Apr 2015 11:21 a.m. PST |
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Captain Gideon | 25 Apr 2015 11:37 a.m. PST |
Very nice pictures. Of the games I like the StingRay game(watched that when I was young),the Hoth game and the Galactica game. |
The Colonel | 25 Apr 2015 11:40 a.m. PST |
I was very sorry not to be going to Salute this year. So thank you for such an excellent range of photos. While I can see what I missed, it is still some small comfort! What look like some great games, but what great scenery! The boards and models are just excellent. The Colonel |
Cardinal Ximenez | 25 Apr 2015 11:43 a.m. PST |
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tigrifsgt | 25 Apr 2015 11:47 a.m. PST |
GREAT PICS, thanks for sharing. |
Tom Reed | 25 Apr 2015 12:43 p.m. PST |
Some beautiful games, thanks for sharing. |
Ben Lacy | 25 Apr 2015 1:17 p.m. PST |
awesome pics…I look forward to seeing them each year. thanks, ben |
The Gray Ghost | 25 Apr 2015 1:39 p.m. PST |
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wrgmr1 | 25 Apr 2015 1:41 p.m. PST |
Thanks for posting, great pictures! |
clifblkskull | 25 Apr 2015 1:42 p.m. PST |
Thanks a million Eric! Clif |
Vespasian28 | 25 Apr 2015 1:51 p.m. PST |
"No pix of Steve Jones' "Guilford Courthouse" game?" Pretty sure I saw a GCH pic there but whether it was Steve Jones'…. |
clarkeshire | 25 Apr 2015 2:07 p.m. PST |
Nice one…thanks for sharing:) |
scrivs | 25 Apr 2015 2:08 p.m. PST |
Steves game – that I had the great honour to play in – is on there, about the 16th shot down with Steve in the picture.
That is my hand on the left :) |
seldonH | 25 Apr 2015 2:31 p.m. PST |
fantastic album, thanks for sharing… |
20thmaine | 25 Apr 2015 3:01 p.m. PST |
Wow – I was there all day and I never saw the Star Wars game….. That's Salute for you! |
plutarch 64 | 25 Apr 2015 3:09 p.m. PST |
Very enjoyable, thanks for posting. |
John Treadaway | 25 Apr 2015 3:48 p.m. PST |
Wow – I was there all day and I never saw the Star Wars game….. That's Salute for you! grin Me neither :(:( John T |
jgibbons | 25 Apr 2015 5:46 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know how the Dambusters game worked?? Taht setup looks intriguing! |
yarkshire gamer | 25 Apr 2015 7:08 p.m. PST |
Cheers for that, didn't get a chance to get there this year, so great to see a picture of all the games. Regards, Ken yarkshiregamer.blogspot.co.uk |
bandit86 | 25 Apr 2015 9:59 p.m. PST |
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Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 26 Apr 2015 2:47 a.m. PST |
"A Town Called Malice" isn't in the pics. 28mm Wild West game. |
EricThe Shed | 26 Apr 2015 2:59 a.m. PST |
Apologies…obviously missed a couple |
WarWizard | 26 Apr 2015 4:30 a.m. PST |
That is the most impressive collection of gaming I have ever seen. |
warhawkwind | 26 Apr 2015 8:38 a.m. PST |
Thanx so much for posting, afraid I cant get to cons so I love looking at the pics. Terrain building has gotten very sophisticated these days! |
EricThe Shed | 26 Apr 2015 10:48 a.m. PST |
Thanks guys for looking – over 4000 page views in the last 24 hours !! |
boy wundyr x | 26 Apr 2015 12:48 p.m. PST |
Great looking games! There were a couple I wanted to ask if anyone knew anything more about – the castle gate with the underground caves and the massive spaceship.
Some folks truly went above and beyond on those! |
mikeygees | 26 Apr 2015 1:06 p.m. PST |
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FriedlandUK | 26 Apr 2015 3:18 p.m. PST |
Another Salute write-up complete with a few photos. Enjoy! link |
FleetfootMike | 27 Apr 2015 3:44 a.m. PST |
The short summary on the Dambusters game (the rules are largely my fault, so…) It was aimed to be a bit of lightweight fun, since we are firm believers in participation games that people want to, and have time to, play. You start at 260 mph, 100' and a bit off to one side of the dam, and the aim is to pass the drop point at 60', 220mph. You have a stick/yoke which you can move one 'notch' each turn which changes your height/sideslips you, and a throttle (with similar rules) to speed up/slow down. Flak is placed semi-randomly with a fairly generous hand (after all, the aim is to entertain folks, not kill them) and had varying effects on a dice roll ranging from buffeting the plane sideways though taking out engines to killing crew…. There was also a bombsight (eyehole and two pins to line up with the dam towers to indicate when you should drop) – since we couldn't move the player's view, the pins were fixed by magnets so we could move them as the plane advanced. There were also some LEDs driven by an Arduino in the plane, but my tablet and the control software refused to play ball all day, despite another phone working fine in the test on Monday. Oh, and we had a small amplifier and a phone full of samples from the film and the theme music :D :D And that's pretty much it: there were a set of 'grown up' rules we didn't play where throttling back is more realistic in that it also causes you to lose lift, and vice versa. Ask us at another show and we'll let you play by the grown up rules :D
More details on my blog: link |
FleetfootMike | 27 Apr 2015 3:48 a.m. PST |
I should also add that we won the award for Most Innovative Game, and I'd like very much to publicly thank James Bachelor (who built the plane, even if my own ineptitude with Android caused it to not work) and Andy Miller, whose purpose in life seems to be to take my grandiose ideas, absorb my enthusiastic rambling and handwaving descriptions, and then turn them into a better physical reality than I ever could. All the woodwork on the dam and the pilot's controls are his, and I take my hat off to him. My sole contribution in physical terms (apart from the display items) was a 6m roll of blue lino :D |
Nadir Shah | 27 Apr 2015 4:52 a.m. PST |
Truly envious! What an amazing convention :) |
Oudinot | 27 Apr 2015 1:27 p.m. PST |
Played this first thing in the morning. Great fun!! Thanks Guys |
jgibbons | 27 Apr 2015 5:46 p.m. PST |
Thank ypu for the Dambusters summary Mike! I was half thinking it was a motorized stand given the wiring :-) |