This is one of those games that comes to you in a series of flashes of inspiration, and is very quickly a fully-formed, playable game. Here’s a bit of a story about how I developed a whole game in just over a week! Inspiration I was in Craft Warehouse, a locally-owned craft supply company thatContinue reading “Ladybird Logic: Mushroom Maze”
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It’s been a while
And a WHOLE LOT has happened since our last post. For a start, we live in the USA now! But I will catch you up on all of that in a minute. Let’s talk about all our game designs in progress right now, first! The Valley We have our first professional prototype and it isContinue reading “It’s been a while”
Any Other Name – Flower Cards
Flower cards are both the most important and the most difficult element of Any Other Name – here’s why!
Any Other Name – testing, testing
We tested Any Other Name, and it went well – really well! Only a few tweaks to the rules and cards, and we can test it again!
Any Other Name – the draft components
After letting the game simmer away in the background, I made a couple of little breakthroughs that meant it was ready to print for testing!
Any Other Name – draft rules
We tested the draft rules over the weekend of December 12th, 2020. Here are the rules as we tested them.
Any Other Name – a tender seedling
I decided to expand a light-hearted joke into a fun family game. Here’s a bit about how it evolved!
Any Other Name – the roots
Star-crossed Flowers I have another game in progress, and it’s called “Any Other Name”. This is, of course a reference to the often-quoted paraphrase of a Shakespearean quote, “a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet”. It is extracted from a scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet argues that their family namesContinue reading “Any Other Name – the roots”
After the play-test – where to from here?
After the play-test – where to from here? We asked the questions and we have some Plans… read all about it!
Play-Testing The Valley at Caffeinated Dragon
We had our first big play-testing session for The Valley this Saturday just past (14 November 2020) at Caffeinated Dragon Games.
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