I've always wanted some Maplestory merch, but I could never find the kinds of things I wanted in America, or there would be a steep import fee. I got fed up and thought "fine, I'll do it myself." Now that I have done it, I'm selling some of the designs I've made. You'll have to search for them yourself if you want one. These are plastic models of some of the creatures from the game. There aren't any special features (at least for now...), and they're pretty lightweight. They are printed on a multicolor 3D printer, so you don't have to worry about colors or decals rubbing off. The mouth, eyes, etc. are printed into the body. So far I've designed Orange Mushroom, Blue Mushroom, Slime, Bubbling, and Pink Bean. That's right, you could have Pink Bean in real life before we get Pink Bean in-game. There's more to come, so stay tuned and stay . I'll update this thread whenever a new design is good enough to show off.
I'm glad people like them so far. Here's a new design that's almost ready: Bloctopus with removable mini-bloctopus (not sure if mini's arms will be final). Someone in-game mentioned wanting keychains, and there is already a bloctopus keychain item in game, so maybe one day... Bonus: we successfully made a test of a Pink Bean made from waste filament. The filament chunks go into a silicone mold which is heated from above and below. It takes a long time, but the end result is a 300 gram bean paperweight. This one didn't completely melt because the mold wasn't preheated, but now we know what to do. If you really want a funky paperweight, tell us.
Bloctopus is just about ready. They are stackable before we glue the legs in. We are also starting to make actual, real-life Omok sets. I've only made the Bloctopus piece so far since we want to see how well it fits with the board, but I plan to make all the pieces. I'm not sure how many should go into a set... Two sets of 30? Two sets of 50? [' O ']
Actual, real life Omok. We're thinking of selling the full board assembled (aka glued together), plus two sets of 30 omok pieces of your choice (total 60 pieces). I don't know if 30 pieces per player is enough, so please let me know here if you think more need to be included. We'll also create some separate versions of Omok pieces with magnets on the back so you can stick them wherever, but I have to model the rest of them first.
as far as i know the original omok board is 15 by 15 slots which would be 225 total, two types of pieces so 112 or 113 pieces each. Many games don't make it to a full board of course, but perhaps 30 pieces and a smaller playing field/table isnt enough
Small update since people seem to like the omoks more, and they're pretty easy to model. We can print almost 100 per plate, but it takes about a day or two, depending on the piece. I'm making a bunch of original designs based on bosses and other enemies too. Along with the original eight plus Pink Bean and Zakum which are already done, I'm going to make yeti, pepe, Papalatus, probably Pianus (front-facing Pianus isn't real, he can't hurt you), and I don't know what else yet. Why? It turns out that they make good bases for magnets.
Playable omok sets are coming soon. We settled on a foldable board and 120 pieces. It's a 12x12 board so you can almost completely fill it up. It takes about a day to print two boards or a single plate of omoks (95 pieces) so planning ahead is crucial.
Omok board sets are finally done after many problems causing print head clogs or general print failures. We can consistently make the boards and we're narrowing down the problem causing the printer to clog when making certain omoks. It seems to be something to do with the filament melting too early, then not getting extracted properly. Orange mushroom and Zakum give us the most trouble. Yeti seems to be the easiest.
