❖ Version History ❖ January – March, 2024 Okay. It’s Time. Gotta make our Phoenix Farm Kickstarter happen… but where do we even start? In order to make a Kickstarter Campaign even work, it takes a hell of a lot of planning. There are so many steps, and assessing the timeline of these things takes […]
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #36: Kickstarter Prep & Costs ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ March 22nd, 2024 At this point in time almost everything that we could possibly need for Phoenix Farm is ready to be loaded into the Kickstarter canon. We have a great game, its got a solid look, there’s a wealth of awesome accessories designed & ready to order, we have a
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #35: The Eclipse Promotion ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ February, 2024 In our last entry to the Design Journal, we set out to discuss some of our accessory designs for the major up & coming Phoenix Farm Kickstarter process. As we noted, it is so critical to the marketing campaign of the game launch to have some of these useful
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #34: Mouse Pad Madness ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ December, 2023 – January, 2024 With the rule book for Phoenix Farm coming together toward a completed state, we are entering into the home stretch of the design process for the game. We have: the cards, the components, the rules, the box, and a budget coming together for the publication process.
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #33: Enamel Pin Production ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ November-February, 2023-2024 Alright folks. It’s that time again… that horrible time again… where we have to finally nail our rules for Phoenix Farm down into a permanent (and digestible) format for total strangers to easily understand……….. aren’t you excited?? (I know I’m not) Okay, but in all seriousness, the process of
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #32: Rule Book Design ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ August, 2023 & August, 2024In our previous episode of the Librarium Games Design Journal, we got to talking about the insanity that lead to our first season at the renaissance fair in 2023. One slice of that story that was glazed over was the narrative behind our construction of the Magic
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #31: The battle of 10,000 Pips ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ August – November, 2023 As if the circus was not already in town on the progressions of Phoenix Farm, one of the wildest and craziest aspects of the game has yet to even unfold in our storytelling. The key to this piece of the story is understanding something about my silly
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #30: The Renaissance Miracle! ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ June-October, 2023 As we saw in our previous journey of the Design Journal, inklings of our box designs and needs were starting to come together. We made some decisions on what the box will start to look like, we got some prototypes made, and then we started thinking forward to what
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #29: Box Design #2 :: Results ❖ Read More »
❖ Version History ❖ May 5th-21st, 2023 Almost exactly one year before we are ready for full blown Kickstarter launch of Phoenix Farm, we are still in a position where a couple of critical features about the game are missing from the official prototype. As is pretty much a tradition at this point, Ben &
❖ Phoenix Farm, Part #28: Box Design #1 :: Prototypes ❖ Read More »
