One of the things I’ve been looking at lately in the development of my board game is designing the cards. While my heart has been set on imagery to illustrate the point for the last year or so, I’ve come to the point where I’ve decided that the image style I’m after is not my forte.… Continue reading Aesthetic Game Prototyping
So I sent my recent scribblings for a song to my mate Ben with a half joking challenge to “find chords for these lyrics I’ve written which have a melody I haven’t yet penned”. He said yes, and as such he actually came up with a really weird chord set. Absolutely doesn’t align with the melody… Continue reading #CheesySongIdeas v2
Apparently songs are my creative venture of choice lately – whether it be working on lyrics or messing around on the piano which leads to more musical ideas of course. Anywho, this one came about because I found a really nice four chord sequence. Apparently when I start humming over the chords, that’s enough to… Continue reading As Two
Expose Yourself: Dossier After a semester of ideating and rapid prototyping, I finally have a finished product! A whole lot of intense work, and a fair bit of deadline stress (what’s new?) and I have a ruleset which works! (Shout out to my play testers for helping me figure that out). The image above is… Continue reading Expose Yourself: Dossier
THIS POST IS IN RELATION TO MY GAME DESIGN. (MORE INFO HERE: 1 | 2 ) (OTHER PLAYTESTS: 1 | 2 | 3 ) This playtest was a little different to the other times; instead of bringing the game along to a group who was aware of it from my constant chatter, I brought it along to my… Continue reading Playtest #4
I have a working title: Expose Yourself. It plays upon the centrality of exposure in the game’s design, that all-to-familiar mantra from clients, “I’ll pay you in exposure”, while also being a double entendre to play to the tongue-in-cheek nature of the game. HOW TO PLAY Pay 1 Cash to ‘survive’ Draw 2 cards from the… Continue reading EXPOSE YOURSELF
THIS POST IS IN RELATION TO MY GAME DESIGN. (MORE INFO HERE: 1 | 2 ) (OTHER PLAYTESTS: 1 | 2 ) First and foremost, I have a working title: Expose Yourself. It plays upon the centrality of exposure in the game’s design, that all-to-familiar mantra from clients, “I’ll pay you in exposure”, while also being a double… Continue reading Playtest #3
THIS POST IS IN RELATION TO MY GAME DESIGN. (MORE INFO HERE: 1 | 2 ) (OTHER PLAYTESTS: 1 ) So these little posts seem to be an account for what I find has been an issue when playing the game. Today’s biggest problem was the fact that we both started without characters, and thus no… Continue reading Playtest #2
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Since the last post, my idea for a game has evolved. While I still like my app idea, it has been shelved for future me, so I can focus on something different: A card game which revolves around the idea of being a freelance worker, aiming to get a real job…
THIS POST IS IN RELATION TO MY GAME DESIGN. (MORE INFO HERE: 1 | 2 ) The first playtest is always an interesting one. It’s the playtest you have where you know everything will be extremely dodgy and nothing will work, but you can’t quite figure out how to solve these problems yet; hence turning… Continue reading Playtest #1: My freelance game.
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