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Old 06-20-2019, 03:33 PM   #1
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Default Mars Attacks Ogre Counters?

I'd love to see "Mars Attacks" variant chipboard counters.
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Old 06-20-2019, 08:18 PM   #2
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Ack ack ACK ACK!!

It's a start, although I need to get myself the right font for Ogre.
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Old 06-21-2019, 06:08 AM   #3
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This one is pretty close...

https://www.dafont.com/data-control.font
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Old 06-21-2019, 02:50 PM   #4
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Ack ack ACK ACK!!

It's a start, although I need to get myself the right font for Ogre.
OUTSTANDING! Thanks I think I'll them a higher attack say a 3 or 4 if you look at what they did in the movie with their "Death-Rays" or on the 1962 trading cards.
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Old 08-04-2019, 10:56 AM   #5
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What you actually want is checkbook

I have a slightly modified version of Checkbook I created that cleaned up a couple things, but checkbook will get you most of the way there right out of the gate.

I will also mention that SJG gets a bit guarded when you talk too much about other companies IPs, so this thread will probably be short-lived.
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Old 08-05-2019, 08:02 AM   #6
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What you actually want is checkbook

I have a slightly modified version of Checkbook I created that cleaned up a couple things, but checkbook will get you most of the way there right out of the gate.
What, may I ask, needed to be cleaned up. I'm sure you can't distribute the modified font file itself, but what you did to it should be fair game. :)
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Old 08-05-2019, 08:36 AM   #7
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It's a start, although I need to get myself the right font for Ogre.
I find Monotype OCR A to be a reasonable match. I got it free with some old Microsoft product.
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Old 08-06-2019, 08:29 PM   #8
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What, may I ask, needed to be cleaned up. I'm sure you can't distribute the modified font file itself, but what you did to it should be fair game. :)
Actually, I pretty sure I can (what I can see in the font file suggests it, anyway)
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I added the following in my own description, too
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Font Inspired by the Steve Jackson Games classic counters for Ogre. Based on a Modified version of the Checkbook font
The main thing I tweaked is positioning of a couple characters (the angle of the "/", removed the dot in a couple letters, for example) and it doesn't have a "-" (hyphen) so I added one (for things like the GEV 4-3 movement)
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Old 08-08-2019, 09:54 AM   #9
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OK, if the font you have is distributable, I'd love a copy. Not sure if you can post it someplace public for all to download, but if all else fails email works too. In any event, thanks for the info!
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