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.
We have been steadily working away behind the scenes here. Since it is all behind the scenes it is not something we can readily show to you.
Work continues on the 5th deck for !FightCard and I hope to have a draft of that ready for Monday or Tuesday.
Take care everyone!
HK out
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…. will your attacks be successful? Will your opponent block or counterattack? Find out in this two player, fast play, card game.
Date Night
As a young couple date nights are rare. You just got in the door from a great night out and you’re looking for a little action……. Can you survive all the distractions?….young children… the dog just barfed on the bedroom floor… what else can kill the mood?
Can you get past all of the mood killers to be the first to the end goal in this couples party game?
Prince/Princess Rescue
Do you want to rescue the princess or prince? Or will you spend your time shooting down your friends attempts at the rescue. This is a card collection game where cards can also be used to thwart your opponents in their quest to rescue the imprisoned princess or prince. Your quest must take you over the moat, through the spikes, over the wall, past the dragon and into the tower – who will be the first to save the day?
Scavenger Hunt
The poop has hit the fan! Zombies are loose and you aren’t exactly prepared. Grab your list of things you need and go looking for them in an abandoned house. Others are here looking as well. Will you find what you’re looking for and get out the fastest?… or will others searching the house find what they need? Are you all looking for the same things? Have they moved the items you need? This competitive searching game is focused on gathering cards to complete your set.
This looks a little boring right now (OK so lots boring). We’ll have art for Fight Card! soon and we are starting to look for artists and graphic designers for the other projects (let us know if you can help with that). I should also mention that these titles are just working titles,
I’m not happy with this format. I’d like a tracker for each game that shows where we are in the process for each one and how long before we release them. A countdown timer or a slider on a scale bar. Any ideas on how to do this? Any links to others who have done this or have done a good or better job of communicating this information? Let us know.
Thanks
PJ
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!
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.
This is how you set up to develop your game!
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!
Taking a break and heading off to the cottage this weekend. I will be thinking of you all of course. Will try and come up with a few ideas for our current project. Working title !Fight Card
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