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Gen Con Playtests 2018
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Just a quick post to tell everyone about our playtests at Gen Con this year. We’ll be at the First Exposure Playtest Hall (I know not the best website….) also have a look at the Gen Con Page Our tentative times right now are – Thu 2PM-4PM: Road Rage 4 players (general) a tile…
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Customisation or Offering Different Options?
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I was recently invited to review a kickstarter page for a project that’s releasing soon. I checked out the page and then went back to comment on it and look at some other comments. The biggest issue in the comments was about the different pledge levels. The options where to pledge at $5 and…
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Promotion
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One of the takeaways from our first Gen Con was – finish the thing. But with that very powerful order they added the advice that our first thing should be an easier and more simple thing to manufacture. We’re doing that. We’re starting with Fight Card! (which has only cards, a box and rules…
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Testing/Prototyping Course Part 5 Principles
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First go check out part four or start at part one There was a lot of material in the course and I won’t go over all of it but I will end with a few of the prototyping principles we talked about: 1. Embrace the beginners mind – make sure people who have never seen the…
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Testing/Prototyping Course Part 4 Feedback
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First go check out part three or start at part one The fun part of the course for me was delivering the prototype and getting feedback. Giving and receiving criticism are difficult to do. For me though the material of the course was easy as I wasn’t invested in in like I might be…
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Testing/Prototyping Course Part 3 Levels of Prototypes
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First go check out part two or start at part one They covered levels of prototypes specific to industry design – think solutions to problems, but for game design I think the first two are what designers use with themselves or their design team. The third level is what we would view as a…
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Testing/Prototyping Course Part 2 Test Cards
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First start at part one We talked about test cards – cards that spell out what you are testing and how it will show as a success or not – We believe that…. To verify that we will do …… We will measure…… We are right if …….. These could be useful in the game…
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Testing/Prototyping Course Part 1 Early Description Not Matching the Final Product?
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In my day job I get to go on training – when a course came up on testing and prototyping I signed up. There was lots of great material. I’ve broken it into different parts but the first: Does the description of the early product (possibly in a blog post) create an expectation that’s…
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What We’re Working On – The Simple View
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Since we have no artwork this will be…….. less exciting. Four games we are working on right now: Fight Card! You’re a martial arts master and in your hand is a deck of cards with all your style’s moves. You draw five cards and carefully set up your combination of three. You reveal….…
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Books About Game Design
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I’m sure practice and physical application (making stuff) is the best way to learn game design but reading about it can certainly help. There are multiple learning styles and I think I benefit from using all of them but this post is just on books. I’m starting out in game design so as I…