❖ 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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❖ 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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