Knights

[deantursx]

Congrats koontz!

[koontz1973]

Thanks a lot guys. Been a fun map this.

Here is a nice thing for you all to ponder over.

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[thehippo8]

Yay, I want one for every season, every event, every moment ... sigh ... it's such a beautiful thing!

[ender516]

The Christmas version looks fun, and might be appreciated when the time comes. My only problem is that when I glanced at the Santas on the frame, especially in the small version, it looked like an evil red face, grinning at me in 1/4 profile and wearing a tiny hat. o_O

[thehippo8]

The Christmas version looks fun, and might be appreciated when the time comes. My only problem is that when I glanced at the Santas on the frame, especially in the small version, it looked like an evil red face, grinning at me in 1/4 profile and wearing a tiny hat. o_O

[koontz1973]

Santa is evil looking for two reasons. Many cultures have history of an evil counterpart (in Hungary it is called Ordog) and why would a nice Santa want to cut you down.

[ender516]

Geez, guys, how am I supposed to sleep now?

It's not an evil Santa face, but more like a jack o'lantern: the white hem on Santa's coat is a grin, his belt is a moustache, his mittens are eyes, and his beard is the peak of a strange hat.

[koontz1973]

Thanks ender, never noticed that.

And if you think that is scary, wait till you see the Easter and Halloween versions I am making when time permits. But I would like to get a Halloween version for this year if nobodies and Gilligan like them enough.

[x-raider]

That's awesome.
Congrats for the quench

[Gilligan]

Thanks ender, never noticed that.

And if you think that is scary, wait till you see the Easter and Halloween versions I am making when time permits. But I would like to get a Halloween version for this year if nobodies and Gilligan like them enough.

Go-go on my part!!

[Victor Sullivan]

For the Christmas "skin", your first sentence should have an exclamation mark: "Help Rudolph save Christmas!" Otherwise it's like, "Help Rudolph save Christmas. Y'know, if you feel like it..."

And, too, I don't quite understand how the whole Rudolph story fits? Maybe, "Help Santa's reindeer save Christmas!" or something? *shrugs*

-Sully

[koontz1973]

Go-go on my part!!

Thanks Gilligan, doing these is fun.

For the Christmas "skin", your first sentence should have an exclamation mark: "Help Rudolph save Christmas!" Otherwise it's like, "Help Rudolph save Christmas. Y'know, if you feel like it..."

And, too, I don't quite understand how the whole Rudolph story fits? Maybe, "Help Santa's reindeer save Christmas!" or something? *shrugs*

-Sully

Maybe Rudolph has been hitting the shrooms and may not want to help. Rudolph story is just there for xmas flavour. Not sure how changing it from Rudolph to santas reindeer helps it any but will get that changed for you.

Here is Halloween. Let me know how it look and if you like.

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[ender516]

The sad thing is, there may be a copyright on Rudolph, but the one on the "eight tiny reindeer" has likely expired.

As far as the Halloween one goes, I'm not sure what you have at the centre of the movement legend.

I do applaud the effort to provide seasonal variants of the map.

[Victor Sullivan]

Go-go on my part!!

Thanks Gilligan, doing these is fun.

For the Christmas "skin", your first sentence should have an exclamation mark: "Help Rudolph save Christmas!" Otherwise it's like, "Help Rudolph save Christmas. Y'know, if you feel like it..."

And, too, I don't quite understand how the whole Rudolph story fits? Maybe, "Help Santa's reindeer save Christmas!" or something? *shrugs*

-Sully

Maybe Rudolph has been hitting the shrooms and may not want to help. Rudolph story is just there for xmas flavour. Not sure how changing it from Rudolph to santas reindeer helps it any but will get that changed for you.

I was just thinking, since there are multiple players on the map, instead of one? Y'know what I mean? I suppose it doesn't matter that much.

Here is Halloween. Let me know how it look and if you like.

With the Halloween theme, you should emphasize the "night" in "Knights" by either dropping the "K" or highlighting "night" or "nights", perhaps

-Sully

[thehippo8]

The simplest answer is - yes Rudolph in this context is copyright as it is (IMHO) too close to the creation of Robert Lewis May (27 July 1905 – 10 August 1976) and as copyright typically subsists for lifetime plus 50 years you will need to wait until 9 August 2026 for it to come out of copyright! Note however that the old shuffle (a little change and creativity) can get around that problem as you can see by the Wikipedia article.

[Gilligan]

The sad thing is, there may be a copyright on Rudolph, but the one on the "eight tiny reindeer" has likely expired.

As far as the Halloween one goes, I'm not sure what you have at the centre of the movement legend.

I do applaud the effort to provide seasonal variants of the map.

A mermaid with a sombrero.

[koontz1973]

Thanks guys, here is the next draft for Halloween with the small one included. Keep the suggestions coming as it can only make things better.

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[koontz1973]

Last one. Easter.

Christmas

Halloween.


Now lets hear comments and suggestions.

[x-raider]

Easter's cute. All looking good... except some of those pumpkins...

[koontz1973]

Christmas is finished unless someone spots something.
Easter has some ducks added to it down the sides, but in no hurry to post it.
Halloween has a zombie instead of the witch with the wording changed to be the same as the others. Pumpkins are bad and will work on them but suggested something which we will see if it is taken up or not.

I am trying to get the eyes of the pumpkins to glow so they do need far more work.

[ender516]

Shouldn't you do a Hannukah one called Eight Crazy Knights?

[koontz1973]

If there is a call for one, then I can do one. Out of all the maps, this one is proving the most fun to play with. But can you suggest icons for me. Top/bottom battlements and shield/bonus squares.

[ender516]

Well, I suggested it mostly for the pun in the title, playing on the title of Adam Sandler's movie. But you could use menorrahs for the top and bottom, and dreidels for the bonus squares.

[x-raider]

Great idea ender. Maybe the bonus squares can be different i.e: dreidels (spinning tops), gelt (coins) and latkes (potato pancakes). ...Or it could be multi-colorued dreidels. The festival of Chanukah this year, will be 8-16 December.

[koontz1973]

Eight Crazy Knights for the title.
Symbols from the dreidel top and bottom is OK.
Gelt coins for the bonuses.


If this carries on, lack will be uploading a new version every month.

Doubt this would ever get permission to go forward as it really is religious and before you all say Christmas and Easter are religious holidays, they are less so now and are not as contentious with some players. But for those of you who wanted it, here is a very rough version.

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