Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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I played Bottle Imp (Z-man edition) for the first time last night. I found the card art pretty amateurish, like the art I see at the local antique road show paintings. As portraits go, the human faces seem assymetrical and unrealistic.
I can't make much sense about the art on each card, why some cards are just portraits, and what the guy is doing kneeling, etc. Can someone describe what the story is in the deck of cards?
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Drew
United States
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
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ralpher wrote: I played Bottle Imp (Z-man edition) for the first time last night. I found the card art pretty amateurish, like the art I see at the local antique road show paintings. As portraits go, the human faces seem assymetrical and unrealistic.
I can't make much sense about the art on each card, why some cards are just portraits, and what the guy is doing kneeling, etc. Can someone describe what the story is in the deck of cards?
I don't know the Z-Man edition, but the edition I have has the Robert Louis Stevenson short-story illustrated on the cards. I assume this is an attempt to do the same.
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Gary Pressler
United States
West Lafayette
Indiana
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You can read the short story here:
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/bottlimp.htm
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peter mumford
United States
Somerville
Massachusetts
ceci n'est pas une pipe
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I like the art. Anything that was painted or drawn by hand (i.e. not on a computer) gets a big plus from me, and I generally prefer messy over slick.
The artist is Tom Agnetti. You can see more of his stuff here: http://tagnetti.deviantart.com/gallery/
Agnetti says here that these pictures were painted very quickly in oil on 9 x 6 inch canvases. But if you are not a fan of the rough sketchy style, I can understand that.
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Thomas Cowart
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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If you order the cards from high to low, they tell the story.
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Chris Tannhauser
United States
San Diego
California
Callisto 1 Mission Log, Day 3,125: I swear to god, if Logan does that spoon tapping thing again I will use it to dig his other eye out of his head. Also, the toilets stopped working sometime last month. Probably should've mentioned that first.
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Really, there's nothin' like the old 27:
... or 34.
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Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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The old art is pretty clear what the story is. It's also set in the historical time period, as opposed to modern day. There's nothing wrong with making it modern, but the new cards make the details vague (is the man admiring his abs or does he have leporsy) and leaving out the key events, such as the man trying to buy the bottle back again, and the drunkard keeping the bottle (at 2, not catching on fire at 3).
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United States
Greer
South Carolina
Entropy Seminar:
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If Zev had commissioned the original artwork, a sample of which is below, I might have bought another copy of the game, "Made in China" be damned. As it is, though, I'll stick with my Bambus Spielverlag second printing.
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Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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Well, the Bambus cards don't tell a story, just show a cat in different poses.
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peter mumford
United States
Somerville
Massachusetts
ceci n'est pas une pipe
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Verkisto wrote: If Zev had commissioned the original artwork, a sample of which is below, I might have bought another copy of the game, "Made in China" be damned.
Agreed! The first edition is really good. All the versions of this game are nice, but the first is the very best..
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Ralph T
United States
Signal Hill
California
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photocurio wrote: I like the art. Anything that was painted or drawn by hand (i.e. not on a computer) gets a big plus from me, and I generally prefer messy over slick. The artist is Tom Agnetti. You can see more of his stuff here: http://tagnetti.deviantart.com/gallery/Agnetti says here that these pictures were painted very quickly in oil on 9 x 6 inch canvases. But if you are not a fan of the rough sketchy style, I can understand that.
It appears from the artist's other work he is capable of good work, but somehow he was placed on a tight deadline and a strange constraint of a 6 x 9" canvas (why not make it 7.3" x 11" if it's a matter of fitting on a scanner). This resulted in the pictures being too small for accurate details and too rushed to really be artistically cohesive.
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Damon Asher
United States
Jefferson
MA
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I really like the Z-Man art and telling of the story. I do wish that this version included a bottle token, however.
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peter mumford
United States
Somerville
Massachusetts
ceci n'est pas une pipe
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drasher25 wrote: I do wish that this version included a bottle token, however. This fits right in the box:
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Edward J Grug III
Australia
Embleton
Western Australia
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I just played the game for the first time. Loved it, but am considering tracking down one of the other versions with the nicer art...
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