❖ 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 ❖ 26th of July, 2021I am still traveling around Bar Harbor (right over by the fire station) at the exact moment when the countdown clock finally ticks down: 5 minutes left… 1 minute left… 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2…….1……………………………………(forever) And then it was done. The Kickstarter campaign for
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❖ Version History ❖ 16th of July, 2021On the 30th, when we finished the first $5k in funding, I was getting phone calls from a lot of people who wanted to congratulate me. The most important of these phone calls comes in from my brilliant girlfriend Caroline who wants to talk to me about the
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❖ Version History ❖ 30th of June, 2021With a great start to crowdfunding The Great Chase yesterday, today at 10a.m. we finally cross the $5,000 initial funding threshold that we needed in order to pass the Kickstarter test! It takes place exactly 25 hours after we launched, which is an astounding success compared to my
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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 ❖ I suppose it is always when you think things are going well that you discover that there is a fresh catastrophe to deal with! 17th of March, 2021:Today I learn something very interesting about The Great Chase: one of my core mechanics in the game design is too complex for a
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