❖ Version History ❖ 29th of October, 2021While Matt and I are in between being excited about our first production prototype & eagerly awaiting our second package, something else unexpected and traumatic has unfolded. We received an email from the Regent Manufacturing facility detailing a serious issue with our product that no one expected in
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❖ Version History ❖ 28th of June, 2020Once on the path to create digital designs of Calendra, I very quickly came across an issue: I wanted to use specialized / authentic looking Celtic font and typography within the designs, but I had none installed on my computer that I felt fit the job. This lead
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❖ Version History ❖ 4th of June, 2020It has been several months since last checking in with Calendra by this point in time… In March I had lost my job only a few weeks after coming up with the concept of this game, and by now, I have not had a single guest to my
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❖ Version History ❖ 16th of March, 2020This week was the week of my birthday. As a celebration of all the work that has happened over the past several months, I invite many friends over to my home to host a night full of home made games, home made food, and general wonderful merriment. The
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❖ Version History ❖ 9th of March, 2020The day after Ben and I had our 13 hour excursion into designing this new rune-themed game I decided to buy a big batch of 1’x1’ wood chips and some cloth pouches off of the Internet with expedited shipping. I was eager to design a more exciting prototype,
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❖ Version History ❖ The 1st of March, 2020 (part: 2 – 8:00pm)With a hot new game idea on the mind after an eight hour brainstorm & flurry of note taking, it is time to crank out a prototype. For about an hour and a half I cut up 120 pieces of index card into
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❖ Version History ❖ The tale of Calendra begins in Pre-Pandemic:❖ March: 2020 ❖ The 1st of March, 2020 (part: 1 – 12:00pm)I invite Benjamin Seagrave over to my house because I have a game in mind that I want to discuss the origins of as a fun design test. The goal of this day
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❖ Version History ❖ 17th of February, 2021:This is probably one of the longest weeks of the entire design process for me. All of the artwork that has been done is currently being printed by our manufacturers over at The Game Crafter, and I have to wait 7 entire business days before it ships to
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❖ Version History ❖ 26th of October, 2020:in our previous entry to the Design Journal we were creating the frame and initial appearance of the Map cards. Now we are currently in need of building the framework and graphic design for the Flight Deck, which will feature all of the aircraft images & statistics for
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