❖ Version History ❖ 10th of August, 2020Having received the first printed prototype of Calendra in the mail a few weeks ago made me start to realize just how many more things could be done to make the game a better experience for people. At the very top of that list of improvements was tackling
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❖ Version History ❖ 20th of July, 2020If you’ve been following the Design Journal story behind Calendra so far, you will know that I have already had some serious printer issues in previous prototyping. My first attempt at getting a set of the cards made was so dark I literally could not even photograph it
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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 ❖ 29th of June, 2021Today is the day. It has been nine months of designing The Great Chase, and today we launch it live onto the Kickstarter platform. Every single day of the last weeks I have been making as many graphics as I can conceive of. I need to make a
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❖ Version History ❖ 21st of June, 2021So far in the journey of creating The Great Chase, we have gathered almost every necessary component to make the magic happen: we have 100+ card designs, basic & custom pieces selected, a physical rule book, a video rule book to pair with the paper one, and the
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❖ Version History ❖ 5th of May, 2021When last we checked in it was near the end of March, the rules of The Great Chase were under serious scrutiny, and many of the card designs needed to be rearranged. After that was fixed, there were enormous format changes that needed to be made to the
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❖ Version History ❖ Needless to say, this has been a rather brutal week. My beautiful prototype has gone through a lot, and clearly has further to go. 19th of March, 2021Today, it is my hope to speak with Matt about the state of problems that has resulted from my play testing data (as described
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❖ Version History ❖ 8th of February, 2021:This past week in The Great Chase I bounced around finalizing the fixes that needed to happen across all of the front facing card designs. In addition to that task I had a conversation with Matt about touching up the rule book almost every day. We have been
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❖ Version History ❖ 1st of February, 2021:In Last week’s Design Journal happenings, we faced a serious redesign of the entire rule system for The Great Chase. While discovering these new arrangements for the rules it quickly became apparent that many of the already completed card designs were going to need some fresh proofing &
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