Free Friday! New KLOV feature too!

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Two birds, one stone!

Today, I will be uploading my 250th model into my Google Sketchup arcade collection. This was my primary goal to reach as I first started uploading models into the Google Warehouse. Pretty good day for me, as now most every kind of cabinet style has been made available.

I choose to wait until today to upload number #250, because as of today we've got a new feature to KLOV.com. Certain game pages with created models will now have a link to them just under the Video link section. The link will take you to the corresponding game's Sketchup model page for download. Even if you don't have the Google Sketchup program (did I mention it was free?) you can still look at the image and rotate it 36o degrees to see arts and cabinet profile. Very handy tool to have. Here's basically how it'll look:

Find the link at the bottom
picture.php

(see pic #1)

Click it and there ya go!
picture.php

(see pic #2)

So there is 249 models currently on my collection, and another 30 or so great models from other KLOV members as well. Should be plenty to see for now.

The program is ultra handy. Use it to draw a quick layout of your gameroom/ garage/ basement, then you can download the model you need to fill it in.
Thinking about buying that Star Wars cockpit on eBay, but not sure how it will fit or look? Just download it and find out once and for all. Most models are accurate to within an inch. Perfect aid to determine square footage available.


OK so enough with the talky-talky! You want Freebies right? Well sweet! I'm in the giving mood! Were gonna play a game, but I'm gonna make you wait till dinner time to play it. I'll upload a quick slideshow on post number two of this thread. Watch the video. It will tour you around all the available models in my collection (as well as a few of the best from other KLOV guys collections). Model number 250 is in there too. Post a reply in this thread saying what the game is, and you win one of four free goodies. More fun than just playing a guessing game, and helps newbies see all of the models with a video.

You get to choose one of the following freebies:

1. $15 IPOD gift card. Perfect for obtaining IPOD songs. Also doubles as a good Christmas re-gift for that Brother-in-law you can't stand.

2. Up/Down shifter. Shift up! Shift Down! Up! Down! But eye! Always look at eye!

3. Hide the twinkies! Porkins and Yarna are the two biggest bariatrics in the Star Wars Universe. And they were made into the two fattest action figures. They'll look perfect on your gameroom shelves. Just keep your fingers away from their mouths.

4. Custom gameroom poster. I'll draw you up your own arcade on Google Sketchup, then print it on poster paper. Hang it in the gameroom. Hang it at your office. Hang it above your bed. Whatever floats yer' boat man.



So just hang in there 'till I get back from work this evening, and I'll upload the video.
 

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Here's the video as promised. You may want to watch it more than once, as I made each shot last only 3 seconds in order to make it fit in under 10 minutes. Some Screenshots are mega-filled with titles!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7YpHbh-2AU



Be the first to name the 250th model in MY collection and then pick a freebie.

Heads up to....

The following models are so badass, they had to be placed into my virtual 'cade. They are not the 250th in case you're wondering.
Gibbous: Asteroids Deluxe, Pengo, and Robotron
JeffC: SmashTV, 720, and Quantum
TheShanMan: Kickman, Cyberball, and Ice Cold Beer
Jeffsgames: Berzerk, Crystal Castles, Stargate, Joust and Turbo
Tbombaci: Defender
Zork40: Baby Pac-man and Q-bert
Killerkades: Bubbles and Joust cocktail

and Sorry JAMES_IN_MD! Forgot you! Scramble and Ladybug.
 
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Awesome! I love sketchup and our architechs jaws dropped when I drew up our new office building, down to the toilet flushers LOL. Unfortunately I'll be at a concert so I prob can't play but thanks and great job!
 
Wow, 250?!? That's awesome. Thanks for all that work, it's quite a contribution.

Got a tip on the best way to learn how to use Sketchup? Is there a good tutorial?
 
I just tried checking a couple of the games I've made models for. They don't have links to the models, and when I click the link to add it to the game record, it leads me to a blank page. I guess the kinks are still being worked out?
 
Blank page was my bad. I made a change an hour ago to how the script validates a valid vs non-valid sketchup URL. It was such a simple change I didn't think to test it. All it took was a simple typo... Fixed now.


Also... since this is a new feature of the site I'm making this thread 'sticky' for about 48 hours.
 
Awesome! Just linked my Pengo model.

Don't really know of any better way to plan a layout for a gameroom than with sketchup.
 
Sweet, I just saw my name title. Awesomeness.

I've been on a mad rush to fill my collection up to 249, peice together the model tour, create the video, and create the inventory sheets for all models. I've had some very late nights the last few days, so I'll finally be able to sit down and upload all of the rest of the models over the next two days.
 
Gettin' close to about 6 o'clock here isn't it?


me hehehehe.

Just editing some of the information on the video's description, then I'll upload here in a few minutes.
 
VIDEO IS POSTED. Check it out. POST #2



Those are pretty much all the models I have available at current time for download.
 
Cool video. I thought it was going to be like a video capture of a sketchup walk through. THAT would be cool!

Didn't youtube recently up their max video length limit?

V.2 of that video be sure to add Pig Out. ;) And eventually I need to get my dynamo air hockey table modeled. That would look good in your cade too!
 
Cool video. I thought it was going to be like a video capture of a sketchup walk through. THAT would be cool!

Didn't youtube recently up their max video length limit?

V.2 of that video be sure to add Pig Out. ;) And eventually I need to get my dynamo air hockey table modeled. That would look good in your cade too!

I wish I could do a video capture. My computer is so slow, that anymore than 15 cabs in a single shot and it takes about 20 seconds to rotate and look around.

Too bad on the Pigout. If you would have just created it two days ago...nuck nuck.
 
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