Thursday, June 16, 2011

Kev's Lounge: The Web Comic

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"Kev's Lounge - A place where games are played and Coca-Cola is consumed. Risk, Axis and Allies, Zombies, Mordheim, Settlers of Catan and Dungeons and Dragons are but a few of the games discussed." Those words have been in the header bar for about as long as Kev's Lounge has existed, but they've never really made a lot of sense.

The way it all started, is that I finished highschool back at the end of 1998. We all went off to different colleges and the group dynamic kinda fell apart. At the end of 1999, I bought a copy of Risk, the classic one, and started inviting the kids around once a week to play, and that kinda cemented the group back together, giving us all a reason to hang out on a regular basis. We used to play in the lounge, hence "Kev's Lounge".

After a while, we started playing other games too... We went back and dug out all the games we used to play in high school, like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, and a whole bunch of interesting new games we discovered along the way like Settler's of Catan, Mordheim, Axis and Allies and Risk 2210. It didn't really matter much which game we were playing... It was just a great way to spend time with friends.

As for "Kev's Lounge" as a title, back in 2004 we were all young and thought we were really hilarious and that other people would laugh themselves silly watching us hang out in the lounge playing our silly games. Kev's Lounge was originally going to be an online streaming podcast... and the only thing that really stopped it was that not a single one of us was willing to watch and edit the video down to something that would actually be watchable. Of course, it was only a couple years before some blokes invented a thing called YouTube and we got to see just how awful that idea was in the first place!

A few years later, I then went on to start this blog, and I was going to use it to talk about the games we played. If you look at some of the very first posts, that's exactly what I was doing. I found that pretty boring, so I started sharing the stuff that I'd made for the games we played instead, and that turned out to be pretty popular, so i kept doing it.

The original idea of the podcast stuck with me the whole time though, and I still think that there's a story worth telling. Back in highschool I used to draw comics, which I'd photocopy and distribute to anyone who cared to read them. I still have the original artwork somewhere, but I'm slightly embarrassed looking at it now, because my 15 year old self had a very warped idea of what constituted "cool!" Earlier this year, i thought I'd give it another try, and I landed up drawing the comic you see above. I haven't really carried on with it, because there is so much else going on in my life right now, but I think I'd like to explore this a little further. Develop some proper characters and come up with a decent long term story line. What do you guys think?
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Kev's Lounge Fantasy Scenics: The Ominous Store Room launches!



A few of you have been waiting for this set for a while, and now it's finally here! This is the first Kev's Lounge premium product, coming in at a very reasonable introductory price of $3.99 ($4.99 under normal circumstances). The set continues the tradition of our incredibly popular Dungeon Tiles sets, but turns everything up to 11! These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Check out The Ominous Store Room at Papercraft Dungeon!

This wonderfully versatile set includes:

9 Brand New Kev's Lounge Dungeon Gigantic Rooms Tiles

These beautiful 6 x 6 inch tiles work seamlessly with all existing Kev's Lounge Dungeon tiles. They make use of the Kev's Lounge Starlinks System to keep them together, allowing you to create some enormous rooms for your most epic battles. Combined with the crate models you can create a beautifully labyrinthine, multi-level battleground for your next skirmish!

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

    • 3 Different Textures: Stonework, Sandstone Slab, and the Kev's Lounge standard style: Flagstone
    • Multiple grid options, including gridless, 1 inch and 1.5 inch, with a choice of styles for the grid lines
    • Additional optional details, like dirt that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your tiles


Several 2.5D Hazard and Obstacle Markers Exclusive To This Set


As with every other Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tile set, you will find a great variety of hazard markers, also taking advantage of the layered PDF system to give you control of the floor background, and to add and adjust details to your liking.



8 "Neatly Stacked Crates" Models

These are the basic building blocks of the set. They come in a variety of sizes, and each model is completely unique. They are both really easy to make for beginners who are just starting out in papercraft scenery, and useful across the board to anyone. They serve as obstacles, and create higher ground, to take your skirmishes to a new dimension.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

    • Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.
    • Optional colour variety, to make the crate stacks less uniform.

6 "Incomplete Neat Stacks" Models

These are slightly more complex than the Neat Stacks. Basically, these are like the Neat Stacks, but with a few boxes missing They will offer a little more challenge to the intermediate papercraft modeller, and they look really good alongside the Neat Stacks. They serve as obstacles, and act as a "staircase" to the higher ground.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

    • Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.

    • Optional colour variety, to make the crate stacks less uniform.

5 "Disorganised Crate Clusters" Models

These are really interesting pieces that add an immense amount of visual flavour to a dungeon scene. Each is a unique pile of crates stacked in a random, haphazard fashion. These are a little fiddly to put together, providing a satisfying challenge to the more seasoned papercraft modellers, while not being too difficult for their less experienced brethren. These provide a visually interesting bit of cover terrain that would not be out of place in any dungeon, or street scene. These are particularly great for skirmish games that use visual reference to measure cover.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

    • Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.

    • Optional colour variety, to make the crate stacks less uniform.


• Fully illustrated, easy to follow instructions

36 page instruction manual, in PDF format, optimised for screen view to save you ink. Details every step of the process with clear, full colour illustrations.


Check out The Ominous Store Room at www.papercraftdungeon.com!

Miniatures used in pictures are strictly for illustration purposes and are not included in the purchase.

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