Meet Darth Pöppel.
I just purchased him for the grand sum of 35 geekgold!
I’ve been a fan of Mike Doyle’s work ever since he started posting his personal reworked graphic designs for boardgames. Mike’s stuff has soul, style and occasionally a bit of humor. If he everdid graphics on a halfway-decent game, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Mike posts his work both on his gameKultur site and on his weblog. This morning, on the occasion of the resurrection of Boardgamegeek from server crash limbo, he decided to sell some of his work to the BGG populace.
More specifically, Mike is selling his zirkusMeeplz for small sums of geekgold via the BGG forums.
Each one is unique, and most of the well-known characters from Star Wars and Star Trek are in this batch. They’re perfect for avatars. My dilemma now is whether or not to permanently give up my long-standing BGG avatar (Morpheus in the rain) for my newly acquired, unique Darth Pöppel that belongs only to me. (I’m greedy that way!)
If any BGGers reading this have an opinion, feel free to let me know what you think.
I guess I could get used to it over time, Rick, but your old avatar is YOU. It has a mystery and seriousness that I feel is more like your personality. But if you want to go all Star Wars on us, go ahead. I just hope it doesn’t affect your personality adversely.
I agree – keep the old one. It’s very good and, on BGG at least, you “own” it in a sense that only time can provide.
And though I don’t know you personally, I have to think that it fits you very well (like Mary said).
What did you actually purchase? Just curious. The image looks computer-generated, so do you get the image file?
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I am Karin, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks.
Ryan – I purchased the image and the full rights to it. You get an avatar-sized image at very nice resolution and a complete plate with Mike’s signature on it. You can have the plate printed and hang it on your wall.