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Pax Britannica Images
Posted On 2/7/2010
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I've been working on a 2nd edition of Pax Britannica for a couple of months now (ongoing discussion on Boardgamegeek here).
One of the things I like about the modern world is the easy of access to visual resources -- not all public domain, of course. But for a test this weekend, I decided it was otiose to continue using the money from Axis & Allies (and anyway I was running out of bills toward the end-game), so produced my own game money. And I wanted it to look period, so I found a reproduction of the "white" Bank of England five pound note that was used from the late 19th through early 20th century, and had Karen take it into Photoshop to modify it, producing:
...with variants for 1, 10 and 20 pounds, printed on differently tinted paper.
Similarly, I've replaced the "colonial office income table" of the first game with cards for each of the Great powers; a pound amount, with some appropriate legend ("The Chrysanthemum Throne allocates for colonial ventures" for Japan) on the front, and the country name and an appropriate image on the back:
That's an official portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm, of course. Britain has Victoria; France the famous painting of Marianne leading the revolutionaries; the US a period tinted postcard image of the Statue of Liberty; Japan the Meiji Emperor; Russia the Czar Alexander; Italy King Umberto; and Austria-Hungary, the King-Emperor Franz Joseph.
Plus, there's a wealth of vector-graphic images of flags, including historical ones, through Wikimedia and Creative Commons (though I haven't found a good one of the Spanish royal flag), and even a nice illustration of HMS Dreadnought:
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I've been working on a 2nd edition of Pax Britannica for a couple of months now (ongoing discussion on Boardgamegeek here).
One of the things I like about the modern world is the easy of access to visual resources -- not all public domain, of course. But for a test this weekend, I decided it was otiose to continue using the money from Axis & Allies (and anyway I was running out of bills toward the end-game), so produced my own game money. And I wanted it to look period, so I found a reproduction of the "white" Bank of England five pound note that was used from the late 19th through early 20th century, and had Karen take it into Photoshop to modify it, producing:
...with variants for 1, 10 and 20 pounds, printed on differently tinted paper.
Similarly, I've replaced the "colonial office income table" of the first game with cards for each of the Great powers; a pound amount, with some appropriate legend ("The Chrysanthemum Throne allocates for colonial ventures" for Japan) on the front, and the country name and an appropriate image on the back:
That's an official portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm, of course. Britain has Victoria; France the famous painting of Marianne leading the revolutionaries; the US a period tinted postcard image of the Statue of Liberty; Japan the Meiji Emperor; Russia the Czar Alexander; Italy King Umberto; and Austria-Hungary, the King-Emperor Franz Joseph.
Plus, there's a wealth of vector-graphic images of flags, including historical ones, through Wikimedia and Creative Commons (though I haven't found a good one of the Spanish royal flag), and even a nice illustration of HMS Dreadnought:
