Greetings everybody!
Recently I have been toying around with QR-Codes from my wedding invitations. And at some point it struck me...
why not include QR-Codes in our beloved game?
There are a few benefits from using QR-Codes:
- IT IS SCIFI! Seriously... how cool is using your smartphone, not just to dabble and read your armylists, but to actually bond the net and your board closer together?
- Using QR-Codes a game master could join the struggle for the mission objectives, since the codes are easily mixed up.
- did I mention it is scifi?
- you can somewhat create decision based trees of evens
- you can imply the qr-codes in your terrain )and that pretty easily)
- secrecy, mission objectives or nasty tricks are not drawn from a card deck or rolled on a chart...
So I started off with something pretty simple. Crates.
A friend and I thought of a few random events that might come into play when a model searches a crate on the battlefield. The QR-Codes are printed on a sticker and glued under the crate (Prototypes are in progress) and when a model discoveres its content, switch it over, scan the code and see what happens.
Please keep in mind that this all is pretty basic right now, but I would love to hear your input.
here is my QR-Code Database:
http://qbmo.blogspot.de/