❖ Version History ❖ May 13th, 2022As always with the Librarium Games Design Journal, we have some interesting gaps in the timeline. It has been nearly six entire months since our previous post for Phoenix Farm. During all that time, we had been putting the important finishing touches on Calendra for its publication debut. A […]
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #20: Cipher Project Bonus Card ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ December 12th, 2021During the weeks leading up to the holiday season in 2021, we had been twiddling our thumbs waiting on The Great Chase to be manufactured. The process was supposed to be completed by the end of November, but unfortunately we were still a few months away from this coming
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #19: Secret Cipher Origin ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ December 4th, 2021Having developed an entirely new playable version of the prototype this past week has left me hungry for some serious play testing. I desperately want to get some new eyes on the project and see how people are liking what we are working with so far. This being said,
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #18: Children of the Yule Festival ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ November 20th-30th, 2021The stage is set. An entirely new prototype must be developed for Phoenix Farm in order to test how the mechanics are coming along, and a holiday weekend is on the approach. I will have somewhere close to four entire days off in a row, and it is time
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #17: The Mini Card Prototype ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ November 17th, 2021Alright. So, we’ve got this brilliant idea to bring together the game now for our next prototype: double sided ‘mini cards’. This will help us reduce how many items are needed to make the game, and it will make the flow of the game pieces a lot better too!
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #16: Playmat Feather Counter ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ October – November, 2021In the few weeks of October and November 2021, I had been spending a lot of time working with the play testers to navigate the dragon rules, as we discussed in our last journal entry. During this process, I had been wrapping my brain around the idea of
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #15: Double Sided Cards ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ October, 2021By now… there have been so many rule changes and iterations of the Dragon Mechanic that it is starting to get hard to keep track. First it just existed as a rule, then it was a rule that had to be activated, then it was a rule that had to
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #14: Dragon Bait Rule Toggle ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ July – September, 2021Once the score calculator for Phoenix Farm had been built onto the Librarium Games Website, I knew that it was time to start taking this project a bit more seriously. Luckily, with The Great Chase hitting Kickstarter in mid-late July of 2021, there were some free time pockets
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #13: Micro Card Prototype ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ June, 2021In-between our last entry to the Phoenix Farm Design Journal and this day, six months have passed. One major reason for this is that my every day life for that timeframe was completely consumed by The Great Chase. Another major reason behind that timeline was the creation of the Librarium
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #12: The Website Score Tracker ❖ Read More »
