❖ Version History ❖ July 19th, 2023 Alrighty, so, we’ve done a TON of research into clothing culture, we are getting our fundamental building blocks for the design of this game together, but now we need to starter hammering down some Game Mechanics. When Ben brought the prototype to me, there were three core details […]
❖ Royal Threadcount, Part #3: Tinkering the Mechanics ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ July 17th, 2023 Alright, so in the last couple of days, I’ve been… completely possessed by this crazy idea that Ben had to make a game about tending to silk moths. I think that I spent…. possibly about twelve hours in the past two days doing my own research into the
❖ Royal Threadcount, Part #2: Let’s Research… A Lot. ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ A Quick Note Before We Begin: For those of you avid readers of this absurd Librarium Games Design Journal that I write, you will know very well by now that we have some interesting overlap between the dates and times of our various projects. As has now become somewhat of a
❖ Royal Threadcount, Part #1: Seagrave’s Silk Moths ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ August – November, 2024 At last. The nightmares of accomplishing our third game release with Phoenix Farm has come to an end! The game has finally gone out to all of our Kickstarter Backers, and our seasonal shop at the Connecticut Renaissance Festival is finally open for business! Now that we
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #42: Return to the Ren ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ August, 2024 The finish line is in sight now.From the top of this story, it is the first & second week of August…. Everything is ready… everything of course, except the game. It was supposed to be here the first week of August…. It was not delivered. It was supposed to
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #41: The Nightmare before Customs ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ July-August, 2024 By now, we have about 90% of the plan completed with our official publication of Phoenix Farm. We have successfully Kickstarted our missing budget, we have initiated our printing process & manufacturing process with the game & its accessories, now all we have left to do is create this
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #40: Let’s Publish a Book! ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ May-August, 2024 Where we left off in our previous post, we had just launched the Phoenix Farm Kickstarter Campaign… and we had only raised about $3,000 of our initial $5,000 ask by the end of day #1. After three days or so (and after I think I may have bitten off
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #39: Funded! What Next? ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ March 28th – April 1st, 2024 Here we are, nearly FOUR YEARS after the fateful phone call that lead us down this crazy path toward publishing Phoenix Farm. It is finally about to be judgement day… the day that we turn on our Kickstarter Campaign (and hope to god that the
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #38: Ready? 3,2,1… Launch! ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ March, 2024 As you may have read in our previous post of the Librarium Games Design Journal about budgeting our Kickstarter Campaign for Phoenix Farm, we have a wealth of plans in mind for building up our web marketing & peer reviews. Our last post was all about how to anticipate
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #37: BGG Banner Ads & Video ❖ Read More »
