Re: [piecepack] SixPacks, OnePacks, and drawing new users

[Ava Arachne Jarvis <ajar@...>]

[Ed Thorn - Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:46:37 AM PST]
> I could see a marketer offering 'onepacks'. 
> Everything of one 'suit', all together, buy four suits
> and you have a functional (if perhaps non-canonically
> suited) piecepack.  Need a fifth suit?  Absolutely
> _must_ have that bunny-head suit for your young niece?
> 
> Not a problem.

I rather like this, and have been contemplating writing up a perl script
to create sheets of piecepack labels given an image, preferably a
scalable image, or perhaps two images (one large, one small for dice and
pawns and such).  The wooden JCD Piecepack set shown in the photographs
on the group homepage are made from applying clear labels (Avery's got
clear full-sheet labels, and so do other Avery-alikes) to standard wood
turnings you can get from Michael's or an online wood turning catalog
(often for cents)---2"x2" wooden squares, 3/4" wooden discs, 1/2" wooden
blocks, wood pawns (for which would be created pawn bands, because
painting them takes more time... but people could do so if they wished).

So you just cut 'em and stick 'em and go.  You could sell a sheet of
labels and enough wooden bits to make a piecepack suit for less than $3
and still make a profit, if you so desired, not taking into account
shipping costs.  Definitely not as nice as Mesomorph's, of course, but
that would require more money and more time.  :)

I have the pretty animal pawns from the most recent American version of
Pacheesi, and wanted piecepack suits to go with them, hence the idea....


> This is sort of related to the pitch I made way back
> for strongly-themed PP graphics to get the 'glitter'
> buyer, who then is informed inside the box that "By
> the way, your FNL ("Football, like... not.") Football
> game set can be used for a hundred other games, check
> out this website..."

And, of course, sports mascots make ideal icons for piecepack suits.

As do University/College logos, at least the iconic ones (Spartans,
birds, letter I's, what have you).

On an entirely unrelated note, I have noticed that the numbers on the
back of the coins almost count as a separate suit.  Why not have the
number side be black, with a white numeral on it?  It would make it
easier to play things like reversi or checkers, and would make it easier
to distinguish between numbers and suits in games like Froggy Bottom.


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