❖ 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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❖ 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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