Ogre Maps

For those of you who are fans of Ogre, you may have seen my attempts to organise a response for Eric Hotz to make a map or two for Ogre / GEV (Ogre Forum Link, TMP Link etc) and that it has gone very quiet.

Well, in the middle of this week, Eric sent me a mail:

My first attempt at printing up the game mats wasn't too successful.  However, I came up with another idea, which fixes a few problems and makes the whole process easier for me to produce and doesn't take as much time.

I want to make Ogre game mats, at least at the start, to match fairly closely to the first Ogre game board that shipped with the 1978 version of Ogre.  This was basically the shell hole sci-fi environment map.  I was planning to use 3 inch hexes.  If you feel this will help, and is what some people would want, I can have this ready by the end of this month.

After this, I can plan to create other Ogre mats, but to produce the full color maps that came with Steve Jackson Ogre games in the 1980's is tricky and expensive.  It can be done, but the cost would be high.

Now from this I take it that he is aiming for a version of  the classic map shown above (not sent by Eric I add) with a few changes and a lot larger in size :-)

Can I ask if you are seriously interested (and I mean serious as we have all seen ‘oh yes but later’ promises on the net) that you get in touch with Eric directly and let him know your intent.

His company details are: http://www.hotzartworks.com and details of his email are at http://www.hotzartworks.com/hotz_contact.html

Edit – Please note I do not have any other info (e.g. cost / size) than the above – please contact Eric direct.