❖ Version History ❖ 15th of March, 2021:In the past month, we are beginning to hit our final approach of project necessities:-The Cards are all Designed-The Rule Book is written in a way that we are happy with-The Prototype Box has been designed But there are still a wealth of tasks that are in the […]
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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 ❖ 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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❖ Version History ❖ 28th of January, 2021: As covered in our last few visits to the Design Journal, it has been a flurry of re-configuring game numbers, rebuilding our play testing data, and redefining the rules of the game. With so many alterations happening to the individual interactive experiences of the gameplay, our priority
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❖ Version History ❖ 25th of January, 2021:In the previous chapter of the design journal we covered the process of dramatic changes to the number systems in the game mechanics. That problem had stemmed from needing to change the data around on the characters, and changing specific interaction types (such as the Skirmish Mechanic). Now,
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❖ Version History ❖ 20th of January, 2021:The last twelve days have been jam-packed, and it is becoming hard to even find time to keep up with this journal. All parts of the project are coming together simultaneously as we approach the finishing touches on a complete prototype. Right now on my daily project timeline
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❖ Version History ❖ 8th of January, 2021:As anyone who celebrates the holidays knows, very little gets done because it is a hectic and crazy time. The week of Christmas puts me in a place beyond the reach of project time, so of course the weeks after Christmas my brain is on fire and eager
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❖ Version History ❖ 20th of December, 2020:In the past week or so the Diplomatic Emergency Cards of the Flight Deck had all been totally compiled and designed, which was looking great, but left us with a new issue needing resolving. There are two roles of the Diplomatic Emergency Card: 1. Solving :: If a
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