Gencon 2022

After a long pause due to a global pandemic we are coming back to the best days in gaming and presenting our two work in progress games: Date Night & Prepper Z.

Please come join us in the playtest hall and give us your feedback on our updated versions of these games.

Back to the grindstone

Was a sparse time of posts.  My bad, I have been working on passing some exams.  Which I did.  Though what does it say if you only get an 80% total mark in your ethics class?  Either way passed it all with the lowest grade being a 79 %.

This weeks projects are to get some quotes for custom logo art as we are tired of using that snazzy but not really ours creative commons image.  Then we are going to be contacting some local artists for some art quotes for our Kickstarter project page.  PJ is also going to reach out to an editor we met at Gencon to see about costs for – well editing – the rules text and card text for our project.

Have an idea for the 5th deck we want to try out for the current !Fight Card project.  Stand up Street Fighting.  I was thinking untrained brawler style so risky moves with some make shift weapons and penalties littered throughout to balance the damage increase from the weapons.  We will have to play, replay and then play some more with all the decks once that is done to make sure it stays balanced.  Though I believe all you other game developers out there already know all this.

Thats all for today.  Look forward to your comments or feedback now or whenever!

Delicious discoveries

Did another session this weekend where I worked on project !Fight card while smoking some wings. It is such a fantastic pairing creative juices and fall off the bone meat ingestion.

So very excited for this weekend. We will playtest the project for my regular game group for the first time. Apprehensive on their opinions but hopeful that playing will bring them some fun as thats why we are developing games to begin with.

My current ability to consume literature is limited because of my ongoing classes (trying to get my bachelors in business administration through distance education). My business partner PJ however is quite the academic and has been devouring game development books and blogs. He sent a book my way called “A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide” by Jamey Stegmaier. I started on Monday and since it is such an easy and Interesting read I am already half way through it.

I sent out for a quote on some art today so we can price out the cost for card and box graphics and possibly some pizzaz for the project page when we Kickstarter.

Take care readers and ill message you all again next week.

P.s. it was to dark last night to photo the wings but if your wondering they looked exactly like this last batch…

Thought I would leave you with a bit of what my day job boss calls grill porn – ha ha.

Rules Documentation…And Smoked Meat

What better way to spend my Sunday then creating a spread sheet to document all our current rules.  The deck I am working on creating for Karate all within the glory of spreadsheets!  Hooray just like my office job….oh when will the hurting stop!

On the plus side I am simultaneously smoking some drumsticks on my Big Green Egg and look forward to supper when I can consume that delicious labor of love.  Cant eat the cards unless I am really hurting for fiber I suppose (ha-ha a dad joke!).

Hope you all have had a great weekend.

Kruegs out!

What I learned at Gencon

Before the memories fade here is my recollection of what you need to be a game designer from the events I attended at Gencon.

Business cards!!! Big in this industry.
Get on twitter!
My game does one thing A+, then 3-4 at a grade b

level

Metatopia go to it, will benefit the game
Finish

something!

Pay your freelancers
There will be

huge crisis or errors, get a helmut.

No NDAs
Get it playtested.
Accept revisions, expect revisions
Doesn’t have to be done to be edited.
Write
Develop pitch
Edit
Playtest
Avoid cognitive dissonance
Game needs to be accessible to level 0 players