JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I enjoy using gaming tiles. I own a wide selection of Paizo's card stock tiles as well as their flip maps. In addition, I own a few electronic products from Skeleton Key Games and others.
I'd never heard of Empty Room Stuodios and was recently contacted to do a review. Enjoying such tiles, I said, "Yeah, I can do that."
When I initially saw the price, I was a little off put. The page count seemed low for $9.99, especially as of the 19 pages, only 16 are actual tiles.
Boy was I way off base. Like playing another game entirely as opposed to actual baseball.
As I'm listening to Business Time off of Flight of the Conchords, I'm playing with the tiles in Acrobat. Now I've got the latest version of reader and it recommends having at least 6.0 or higher. What that means for those with a lower version I can't say but I suspect since it's high utility is based on layers, that some of that utility may be out.
There are sixteen pages and the tiles/pages, have up to 40 different elements to them. Now I've never worked with layers in the new version of Acrobat.
It wasn't a problem. Without going to the help menu or looking up any instructions, I clicked on the little icon on the left side of the page that looks like two sheets stacked onto each other. Then you get a list, almost like bookmarks. Now what I don't like, is that the layers you're working with, don't necessarily have to be the page you're looking at. What's worse is that the layers aren't listed in the same order as the pages appear. Thankfully the layers are labelled to match what the pages are labelled as.
For example, if I go to page 10, Large Building, I can find the layer, Large Building. Hard it's not. If I can do it, most people should be set. Large Building has approximately thirty eight different elements that you can use. This includes a wide variety of plants, beds, rugs, chests and other goods. Now it's probably not a good idea to turn everything on. First off, the page gets crowded. Second off, it's ugly. The only thing I don't like is the use of like an orange/red for the grid line.
But in terms of layers, it's awesome. You say, "You know, there's some interesting stuff in these thirty options but I really don't need a building. That's okay, you click the layer for building and now you've got another outdoor tile. You don't want to waste ink on the text giving you advice? Click and it's gone! You want to use this in say Warhammer Tomb Kings? You click the Square Grid Bottom and bam! The grid is gone and now you've got to break out the rulers.
It's amazing how much you can play with it. It's something that you can play with for hours and print out dozens of variants. It's a new level of interaction for me in terms of ease of use and sheer number of options.
I recommend anyone looking for some serious desert action, you plunk down the $9.99 and tell them, Joe G. Kushner sent you.
I'd never heard of Empty Room Stuodios and was recently contacted to do a review. Enjoying such tiles, I said, "Yeah, I can do that."
When I initially saw the price, I was a little off put. The page count seemed low for $9.99, especially as of the 19 pages, only 16 are actual tiles.
Boy was I way off base. Like playing another game entirely as opposed to actual baseball.
As I'm listening to Business Time off of Flight of the Conchords, I'm playing with the tiles in Acrobat. Now I've got the latest version of reader and it recommends having at least 6.0 or higher. What that means for those with a lower version I can't say but I suspect since it's high utility is based on layers, that some of that utility may be out.
There are sixteen pages and the tiles/pages, have up to 40 different elements to them. Now I've never worked with layers in the new version of Acrobat.
It wasn't a problem. Without going to the help menu or looking up any instructions, I clicked on the little icon on the left side of the page that looks like two sheets stacked onto each other. Then you get a list, almost like bookmarks. Now what I don't like, is that the layers you're working with, don't necessarily have to be the page you're looking at. What's worse is that the layers aren't listed in the same order as the pages appear. Thankfully the layers are labelled to match what the pages are labelled as.
For example, if I go to page 10, Large Building, I can find the layer, Large Building. Hard it's not. If I can do it, most people should be set. Large Building has approximately thirty eight different elements that you can use. This includes a wide variety of plants, beds, rugs, chests and other goods. Now it's probably not a good idea to turn everything on. First off, the page gets crowded. Second off, it's ugly. The only thing I don't like is the use of like an orange/red for the grid line.
But in terms of layers, it's awesome. You say, "You know, there's some interesting stuff in these thirty options but I really don't need a building. That's okay, you click the layer for building and now you've got another outdoor tile. You don't want to waste ink on the text giving you advice? Click and it's gone! You want to use this in say Warhammer Tomb Kings? You click the Square Grid Bottom and bam! The grid is gone and now you've got to break out the rulers.
It's amazing how much you can play with it. It's something that you can play with for hours and print out dozens of variants. It's a new level of interaction for me in terms of ease of use and sheer number of options.
I recommend anyone looking for some serious desert action, you plunk down the $9.99 and tell them, Joe G. Kushner sent you.
