❖ Version History ❖ June-October, 2023 As we saw in our previous journey of the Design Journal, inklings of our box designs and needs were starting to come together. We made some decisions on what the box will start to look like, we got some prototypes made, and then we started thinking forward to what […]
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #29: Box Design #2 :: Results ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ May 5th-21st, 2023 Almost exactly one year before we are ready for full blown Kickstarter launch of Phoenix Farm, we are still in a position where a couple of critical features about the game are missing from the official prototype. As is pretty much a tradition at this point, Ben &
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #28: Box Design #1 :: Prototypes ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ January 1st, 2023 – January 1st 2024Today’s post to the Librarium Games Design Journal is going to be a bit of a special occasion, because we are going to talk about a project that has already begun, a project that has not yet been finished at the time that this entry
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #27: Librarium Loretext Game ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ January 26th, 2023If you have been following along the Librarium Games Design Journal for our last few entries, you would know that we have been up to some very large scale mechanical rearranging for Phoenix Farm. We have done everything from card changes to rule changes. One big chunk of that
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #26: Many Wonders of the Fireflies ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ January 1st – February 1st, 2023After the few major brainstorms that had taken place in the month prior to this moment, I was left with an absolute wealth of work that must be done. I now needed to: redesign some of the cards we already have, add new features into the
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #25: Major Digital Redesign ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ January 1st – February 1st, 2023In our last adventure through the Phoenix Farm Design Journal, we spent a wealth of time talking about some of the critical issues that we have been facing within the mechanics of the game. There were two main concerns to the flow that we talked about
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #24: Random Tool Numbers? ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ October 23rd, 2022By now in our journey we have finally acquired a printed version of the card stock for our Phoenix Farm Prototype. This is a critically important step in the process of our workflow. When there are only hand-drawn iterations of the games, we very rarely take them to the
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #23: Balancing Needed…….. ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ July 1st-10th, 2022Every once in a while, a magnificent leap forward takes place in the design process. Over the summer of 2022, I took a week of vacation, and this was one of the best progressions of Phoenix Farm’s life since Thanksgiving the year prior. One half of this trip was
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #22: The First Digital Prototype! ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ May, 2022In the same weeks where I was focusing my attention toward making the Phoenix Farm bonus card that we discussed in our previous post of the Librarium Games Design Journal, I had come across a couple of interesting inspirations. Today’s moment of major distraction was a video I had seen
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #21: Legend of the Magic Dice ❖ Read More »
