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Well, that's better than what I do most of the time; burn 2-3 hours writing...then delete everything the next day when I open it up.

The best part is trying to sleep and suddenly all the ideas that lingering around in the back of your head break cover and head for your notepad.

I was working on cards last night, and it occurred to me to jiggle the iconography around. I was comfy too.

I do all of my best thinking sitting in the shower in the dark, lol...like a kind of ghetto sensory-deprivation tank.

I also carry a voice recorder if I've got a job where I drive a lot (which I frequently do). Helps a bit. I also try to keep a notebook by my bed in case I suddenly have a good (or terrible) idea while laying there.

Debugged level script.

 Easy E wrote:
I made HUGE progress! I opened the draft document.... and proceeded to not write a thing!

You get an Exalt for honesty! This has happened to me soooo often.

This time I returned to my computer to find the draft document open and ready for me! I was able to type about 5 pages into the document! That finished off the 1st draft of the core rules.

I am now working on the Historical Scenarios. 1 down, and 9 to go!

Card re-design, mech redesign, maybe revert building design to cubes.

I restricted myself to 5 Historical scenarios (as opposed to 9) since I am at my Word limit all ready. I am sure a second draft will have to thin things down a bit.

Only 2 more Scenarios to go and I am on to revisions!

I've been putting in a little bit of design work, but mainly just waiting for my Version 2 cards to ship...and they did today! Now I just sit impatiently for 2-3 days.

I've been adding stats to a variety of cards (after completely redesigning my game after a several month hiatus) and trying to make everything fit into my new plan. Hopefully I can have the mock-up cards sorted soon and I can do some playtesting!

Biggest stumbling block for me is the artistic side of things, I suck at graphic design!

Elbows: Who're you ordering from?

some bloke: I know that pain!

I am putting all the army lists and units stats into a spreadsheet so I can look and validate for redundancy since I am covering a wide period of time in these rules.

I just scrapped most (Well, really all), of what I had been working on rules wise, because I had taken a break and came back and was majorly unsatisfied with it. New beginnings I suppose, but now I need motivation to get down and start writing again.

 some bloke wrote:
I've been adding stats to a variety of cards (after completely redesigning my game after a several month hiatus) and trying to make everything fit into my new plan. Hopefully I can have the mock-up cards sorted soon and I can do some playtesting!

Biggest stumbling block for me is the artistic side of things, I suck at graphic design!

Maybe this guy can help?

https://www.patreon.com/danielsolis

 Sir Heckington wrote:
I just scrapped most (Well, really all), of what I had been working on rules wise, because I had taken a break and came back and was majorly unsatisfied with it. New beginnings I suppose, but now I need motivation to get down and start writing again.

Sometimes you have to kill your babies!

Awwwwww yiss! Version 2 playtesting components arrived. Have at least one game planned for tomorrow. I expect to go through another 2-3 revisions before it's all finalized.



300+ cards!

That is why I am unsure how much I want to use cards in my games. I see the appeal mechanically, I just do not like the outlay!

Those look really cool though, so my resolve is weakening.

I'm a huge fan of cards, but...I build my games around them. Also the stuff posted is around $40 print to order, so I don't plan on selling many. If I mass-ordered them they'd be reasonable, but I enjoy having a simple rulebook and then all the info necessary on the cards. It opens up a lot of options that dice-tables don't allow, etc.

Definitely a stylistic choice. Would I make more money just writing up rule-sets and selling them as $5 PDFs? 100% absolutely, yes. But I tend to simply design games for me to play, so if they sell or not it doesn't really matter. I like the visual impact and the joy of drawing a random card, etc.

Brings me joy!

Cards never really appealed to me for Wargames (designing that is), but damn do they look nice.

I've been going through previous editions of Giant Monster Rampage, looking for optional rules I can tweak and update for Giants: The Action Figure Game of Colossal Combat (new version of GMR).

So far the swarm rules are the only thing I have decided to add to Giants.

 Elbows wrote:
Awwwwww yiss! Version 2 playtesting components arrived. Have at least one game planned for tomorrow. I expect to go through another 2-3 revisions before it's all finalized.



300+ cards!

Those are some swank cards!

Thanks! It's been a long road learning GIMP (free photoshop), and taking hundreds or thousands of photos, and trying to put it all together into good lookin' components! Going to get a game in tonight on an equally swank dungeon we set up last night...huzzah!

I spent a few hours the last couple days furiously researching if the Pontic Army had elephants in its line-of-battle. I have seen army lists for other historical games feature them, but have not found and primary source material to back that decision up. Now I have to decide if I want them in my historical army list or not!

I ordered some micron pens and some graph paper - going to take a stab at doing old school looking dungeon maps for my game (see if I can make them palatable). Would be nice to add the old school charm.

Doing a lot of minatures painting, terrain building and similar to get my photography for the finished Zero Dark rulebook finished this month!!

Hoping to livestream or, at least, record a PvP game in the next couple of weeks.

I am doing the boring and ugly work of editing draft 1.

I added a bit of history section, but I have a feeling I am way OVER the word count now.

Some really great work from everyone... I finished the photos for my upcoming REALM LORDS kickstarter that starts 2/13/20. Here are some of the game components and additional race figures. So, still putting the final touches on the KS page before launch. I welcome everyone's support!!



https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mdsw/realm-lords-for-castle-and-country?ref=5ra4gp&token=54b51f2f

I finished up a re-write on my SnS rulebook and now I am trying re-do the campaign system...ugh.

Did some painting for pictures, battle reports, and demos. Nothing that great.

I thought about doing something for the editing, but then promptly wandered away.

I bought a ton of transparent plastic bingo chips; they make ideal shield tokens for my Titachomachina game.