My Coffee Table Book of BGG Images
BGG user gollum's great geeklist holding "coffee-table-book-images" got me thinking about creating a real tangible book. So, I gathered 55 of my favorite images from BGG, added borders to provide a common theme to them all, and uploaded them to MyPublisher.com. The end result arrived today and I have to say I'm very happy with the results. Okay, I'm not just very happy...I'm ecstatic. I know I'm strange but man this thing is so cool!
The leather cover is very nice and the binding appears strong. The print quality is better than I expected with the image resolutions I had to work exhibiting little to no pixelation that I can detect. I chose the middle size at MyPublisher (mainly due to cost and the resolution of the images I was working with) resulting in an overall cover dimension of 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" x 1/2".
The first page includes the following text:
I am a great fan of board games and of the online community that has developed around them at BoardGameGeek.com (BGG). In this book, I've selected approximately fifty images, submitted by myself and the community, that I wanted to preserve in a tangible form.
There are thousands of games, thousands of images, and thousands of community members supplying content to BoardGameGeek and selecting these images was a difficult task. Many of the images have had a border added to provide continuity to the book as a whole. However, the base image remains consistent with that uploaded to BGG. With each image I have supplied the name of the game, the name of the designer, and the BGG user name of the image submitter.
I hope you enjoy this collection of board game art and most of all, I hope it encourages you to find out more about these games.
Matthew D. Marquand
BGG: matthew.marquand
http://www.marquand.net
I'm extremely happy that I took the time and effort to organize the book and now I have something that I can set out on the coffee table and take with me to show off this great hobby.
Please visit My Coffee Table Book Geeklist on BGG to see some of the individual images.
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Sorry...no kittens or babies. I'm not against them mind you but they didn't 'fit the theme'. Maybe I should produce a "Cats of BGG" book :-)
You didn't mention it, but I'm assuming you got permission for the images? Printing in tangible form is getting serious.
Anyway, a nice selection. I'm wondering also that you included the game designer's name, but not the artists of the actual components and pieces that you used. Surely their contribution is as much or more than the game designers.
Yehuda
Nice work! Some of those are my favorites too.
Quite honestly, I didn't. I'm not a lawyer and I don't claim to even play one on t.v. but I didn't see the harm in printing a physical copy of the images I like (not much different than my printing a high quality color image from my printer and binding them in a book myself) and having a personal copy of the book made. Especially when I've made it entirely clear that the work is not mine but the named BGG user, the BGG community as a whole, and BGG itself that really made it possible.
It's not my intent to make money on the book or anything.
No kittens? No babies? What gives?
Excellent! You also managed to include a couple of my favorites (The Black Ship from Pirates Cove, and the dice dropping into water).