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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: AC. on July 07, 2008, 10:37:55 pm
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My wife and I recently moved into a new house and I had the inclination / burden, to tile a portion of the basement as a game room. The tile was left over from the previous owners and they never got around to using it. While I had the opportunity, I figured I'd make something cool at the entrance: ;D
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Ha, cool.
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:applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Been over a year since your last post... got any special projects planned for 09 we can look forward to? ;D
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Nice. That basement looks like it might make a nice little game room.
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Great idea! Looks solid. :cheers:
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OMG, I just suggested this exact thing to my wife while we were wandering around Lowes looking at tiles, etc.
And it WAS a good idea, I knew it! Looks really great, congrats man.
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Too cool 8)
If I ever have a pool built Im going to have a complete spacies mid game mosaic tiled on the bottom.
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Thanks all! I sent it to Mitch and it is currently a news item in the July 2008 issue of GameRoom Magazine.
I did think about an entire floor Galaga scene with attacking ships, missles and explosions, but that would have been way much, too busy, etc. A mosaic at the bottom of a pool like that would be cool.
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that's awesome
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I had thoughts of doing that, but with a Tetris style.
Would be real easy making those shapes...
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This reminds me of some freeware application I saw a long time back and wish I'd bookmarked - it takes an image, hand drawing, whatever... and you pick the tile size (1"x1", 4"x4", etc.) and it converts to a template for you to layout the picture using tiles. Argh... it would be so easy to take a screenshot of Galaga or other, remove the black background using a graphics program and convert the remaining image to a tile template.
I'll do some digging and see if I can find it again. (I found it originally because I was looking for tile templates for a back patio area.)
Jim
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If you Photoshop has a tile function too. You can use that to turn a photo into a tile floor.
But then, Why would you need special software for something like a Galaga screenshot? That's a low resolution low color image.
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It would still be difficult to do a Galaga screen capture on a tile floor unless you used a very small tile size - even then, doing it without some sort of layout template would be very difficult I think.
Jim
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this is the coolest thing I have seen in a while, great idea :applaud:
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!!! to damn cool! - ill think ill adobt your idea when im going to lay the tiles in my gameroom!!!!
for those who are interisting in it:
http://spaceinvaders.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1032&start=0
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Very nice; I have a Pac-Man themed floor with a pair of Cherries about to be eaten.
Unfortunately, my games room (or garage) wasn't quite big enough and it's covered with game room stuff and doesn't quite fit pattern-wise but I think it looks OK. If I do it again, I'd use smaller tiles like your image. Lots of hassle in that though... :dunno
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That Looks Excellent! :applaud:
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You know guys, we are so nerdy! Hey, "they"have their car clubs, we have our game rooms. Guess it all works out.
Nice tile bro...
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/me stands up and applauds