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Los Rudos: Rules

Cards:
Character: The player’s pawns; pimps, hos, drug dealers, hackers, etc. Played at the home base location.
Item: Modifies the character attributes; gives bonuses, skills, etc. Played on a character at the home base location.
Location: Makes up the playmat. They modify actions, characters, and item attributes.
Action: Allow character actions such as movement, attacks, hacking, drug dealing, etc. These actions score points.
Los Rudos Times: Acts as a chance card in Monopoly. Enters the game after a player scores points. Overcoming a Los Rudos Times card scores points.

Game Setup:
Each player lays out 2 rows of 3 location cards and 1 adjacent location as a home base.
Players shuffle deck, draw 7 cards.

Game Play:
Each player has 15 points to spend per turn. Each card has a point value. Example: If the Icepirate420 character card has a point value of 10 and the gun item card has a point value of 5, a player can play both on their turn. The turn would end and shift the opposing player. However, if the gun item card had a point value of 10, the player would have to choose between playing the item or character since the total point value would add up to 20.

When an item card’s ability is used, it’s discarded. When a character gets killed it gets discarded. Action cards return to the player’s hand after use.

How do I score points?
The main way to score points is to complete successful actions. Actions could include hacking into databases, pimping opposing characters, attacking opposing characters, stealing items, setting up a gambling ring at a certain location, etc. Point values are determined on either the action card and/or the opposing card total. For example: Let’s say a gun’s value to play is 5 points. If you successfully steal the gun, you score 5 points. Or if you successfully kill an opposing character that’s worth 15 points — you score 15 points! The first one to 100 wins — or whatever point total the players choose. Oh yes, it’s up to you.

Example Card Layout:

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Los Rudos

I’m developing a new card game called Los Rudos. It’s going to be a cross between Grand Theft Auto and Pokemon using pictures from Flickr. Here are the first few prototype cards.

Eventually, I’d like to build an interface where people can easily create and submit their own Los Rudos cards. First, I need to finalize the rules.

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The jointwhereilive.com official header

I used a few different techniques using the image manipulation program GIMP to jazz up the pictures for the official header of jointwhereilive.com. This is how you do it:

Get a picture from Flickr. The Advanced Search function is helpful because it lets you search specifically for pictures released under Creative Commons licenses.

For this example, I am using an Alex Roberts original.

Open the picture in GIMP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rezise the canvas to 650×100px. Move the layer around to the desired position.

 

Duplicate the layer.
Select the top layer.
Go to Filters>Edge-Detect>Edge.

Settings:
Algorithm: Sobel
Amount: 2
Smear

Click OK

 

Go to Layer>Colors>Invert

 

Go to the layer dialog and select Mode: Overlay.

 

And yes, that’s all it takes to have a snazzy picture worthy enough to be an official jointwhereilive.com header. Don’t forget to save and enjoy.

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Color pickin’


My website design professor showed the class this website. Looks like picking colors for my next website will be that much easer. Awesome stuff.

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