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The Bone Queen And The Frost Bishop: Playtesting Scavenger Chess In Plasticine

Tom Francis

And their mounted Bishop grabs the Flame: like Frost, but ignites tiles: units on burning tiles must move or die at the end of their turn. Enemies can move onto (but not through) empty fortified tiles to clear them, but they can’t enter occupied fortified tiles. Friends can move freely through them.

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10 Elements of Good Game Design

Brand Game Development

In Tasty Humans , points are earned by monsters for eating people and arranging their body part tiles in certain ways in the monster’s stomach. There are limits to exactly how you can place tiles, and you don’t always get what you want. If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different.

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I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

Shuffling decks, dealing tiles, and assigning first player at a push of a button is very useful. Tabletop Simulator doesn’t just let people play before pledging, it’s also a great place to design and playtest games. Tabletop Simulator allows you to script functions within the game.

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indiecade + board game designs update

Interesting Choices

Also wanted to give a quick update on my various boardgame designs: City Draft - This 7 Wonders inspired drafting game is consistently liked in playtests and has been improving slowly and steadily. I thought I was onto something here after I hit a design breakthrough a few weeks ago but I'm getting discouraged again based on recent playtests.

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A dramatic design shift for Spellstorm

Keith Burgun

At different parts of the bridge there were investment tiles, so on a basic level the premise was kind of, “do I move to a relatively unsafe investment tile, or do I BUMP?” You win by bumping the opponent into damage areas, dealing damage to them until their health reached zero, before they could do it to you.

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“Post-Balance” Cogmind Item Expansion

Grid Sage Games

They will likely get some tweaks after playtesting, and purely from a theoretical design standpoint I think it may be necessary to at least require that charged items remain attached to retain their charge. We shall see.

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Marvel Snap - The Definitive Deconstruction

Deconstructor of Fun

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Location Tiles As a reminder, winning a game in Marvel Snap requires capturing two out of the three location tiles.

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