Tyler Tinsley

portal 2 review: movies are the new books

admin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:37:19 +0000

If your reading this to figure out if you should play or purchase portal 2, I would say it’s 9.9 out of two thumbs up. Play the game. If you want to wait for a steam sale? Sure that’s cool, times are hard. I bought cake’s Fashion Nugget used in 2002, it was still great music but the culture I wanted to be a part of no longer existed.
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check out seedrpg.com

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:34:46 +0000

i have a new blog for my rpg stuff it’s at www.seedrpg.com

How To Distress text in Illustrator

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:08:58 +0000

I figured this out when I was working on a project. I made a how to because distressed text is all the rage in these dark times. If you use it let me see the results! I will post ‘em in this here blog. click these words for a link to the pdf

0 Hunters is in development at goplaypdx.com

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:11:14 +0000

0 Hunters is a space bounty hunter rpg that delivers ripping rpg action right out of the box. No need to spend weeks prepping for a game. The Seed RPG System will inspire your gaming group to come up with fantastic stories right at the table. 0 Hunter’s component based play keeps your head in the game and not in some book. so get in on the action and fly with the 0 Hunters Today!

So thats the pitch, will I rise to meet these lofty words? check out the development thread at goplayPDX for all sorts of sneak peaks at my process.

Thanks to all the people who attended my play test sessions at game storm, they were very helpful (0 Hunters was called upright criminals at the show) please get in contact with me if you have any more feedback or want to playtest with your own group.

Rat creature papercraft in the Bone Handbook

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:36:20 +0000

On the right you will see the very first Bone comic book I ever read, given to me by my sister as a gift. On the left is the new Bone handbook published by scholastic. In the center is the paper craft rat creature I designed that was included in the Bone handbook.

I read a number of comics growing up but very few of them were from american creators, and only one of them kept my sister and me coming back to Excalibur comics (a local shop we cleaned for store credit). That comic was Bone, while the bi-monthly schedule was hard for a younger kid each issue of bone was more then worth waiting for. Having just a little of my work find it’s way into a Bone book was quite a kick.

Thanks to Vijaya and Jeff for making it happen and to Steve Hamaker for making my design look like it popped right out of the comic.

Notice of my hiatus

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:05:32 +0000

It’s obvious I have not been updating my sites much. I have been on an extended hiatus while working on new projects. One of witch has born it’s very first fruit that I will post about soon. But right now I feel like sharing a little of my road map.

I intend to redesign my two sites so that my downloads are easier to find, www.papercrafted.com will lose it’s central blog and all blog information, previews of new content, and talk about my projects will be moving to www.tylertinsley.com

If you have this site in your bookmarks bar or rss I would like to personally thank you for your continued interest in the silly things I do.

If you are attending the upcoming Game Storm convention in portland OR Vancouver Washington I hope we can get in a game together.

Star Wars saga edition AID pack!

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:14:49 +0000

My star wars character sheet went over well with the fans but they demanded more! (changes) who am i to deny these teaming masses, so not only am i now offering the character sheet 2.0 but also a sheet to help GM’s run encounters and an incredibly useful character summary card that easily compresses a whole characters worth of information onto one card! Just place it in the GM’s card reader or the Portrait block on the character sheet to read the information. A collection of stuff this good could only be called a pack! Hit the jump for the downloads!
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Fantasy RPG coming soon

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:54:36 +0000

this is an image of a VERY ruff edition made to test if reading from such a tiny book is enjoyable, more info on this game will be coming soon.

How do you solve a problem like monopoly

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:54:56 +0000

When played in the proper fashion, with auctions and a time limit, monopoly can be a great game. Monopoly was revolutionary, released at a time when games had two categories, roll and move or two player strategy. Monopoly is a compromise, it has depth and strategy with a fair bit of luck. If you like modern games then you probably owe something to this classic.

However the only people known to play monopoly properly are game designers, even then it’s mostly so they can correct people that say monopoly is bad. So then, why do people play monopoly wrong if it has the potential to be good?
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follow me on twitter

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:48:16 +0000

http://twitter.com/TylerTinsley

I don’t update my pages enough so if your wondering whats going on in the public life of Tyler Tinsley (I make all the stuff here) and you happen to be a twit (someone who uses twitter) use the link to find out more stuff.

While my pages have been quiet I still have a whole lot of stuff going on.

toy fair update: i feel the story is not quite finished, it may be something i do an auto bio comic about.