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[Ludorum Rex]

Sounds like a pretty cool idea, Cthulhu. (famous last words).

[Xantalos]

I seem to recall that in the Call of Cthulhu, it was written that mankind would become strange and alien compared to how it was then, and when the Great Old Ones awaken they would teach new ways for humanity to revel.

THE END TIMES ARE COMETH MY BRETHEREN!




In all seriousness, I'd play that.

[Cthulhu]

Damn, I should've tried board games a long time ago.  It's not easy, obviously, but it's so much easier to make your ideas happen when there's no programming to do.

It's happening.  Dunno when I'll have anything playable put together, but I'm compiling a list of all the components and thinking through that's giving me a lot of insight on what exactly I want the players to be able to do.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

took game design last year in uni. Board games are awesome. And frankly, everyone, no matter how bro-ish or macho they may seem, enjoy them. They're also great to prototype games.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah. Hardest thing about board game design is the very large number of tests and rebalancing you need to do before you have a true polished product. But I enjoy it a lot.

[Cruxador]

Yeah. Hardest thing about board game design is the very large number of tests and rebalancing you need to do before you have a true polished product. But I enjoy it a lot.

This is true of all games, it's just that the standard is different for board games.

[Majestic7]

You can't roll out patches for your little mistakes with boardgames.

[Culise]

You can't roll out patches for your little mistakes with boardgames.

Sure, you can.  You just call it "errata" instead.

[Persus13]

You can't roll out patches for your little mistakes with boardgames.

2nd editions, updated online rules, and FAQs say otherwise. I know plenty of boardgames with "patches" to them.

Modding board games is also easier in many ways, since rules aren't coded.

[forsaken1111]

You can't roll out patches for your little mistakes with boardgames.

I see you've never played High Frontier.

[Cthulhu]

You can still patch shit with tabletop simulator, and once I'm ready to start bringing people in for tests (and later doing blind tests) I'll be 99% using TTS.

[Majestic7]

Second editions and expansions all cost money, though - the production costs are very different from patching processes. In computer games the act of coding itself costs money, while in boardgames the production and distribution of the actual game - once the design is complete - is the money sink. That makes expansions very different from patches. Sure, you can put rule amends online or something, but it won't reach everyone who have bought the box.

[forsaken1111]

You can still patch shit with tabletop simulator, and once I'm ready to start bringing people in for tests (and later doing blind tests) I'll be 99% using TTS.

Write me down as a future tester please, if you're collecting names at this point. I'd be happy to assist with design as well if you like. Whatever. I have free time.

[ZeroGravitas]

Let us not forget that this game also had showcased a 'playable demo' at one point before everything was refactored to infinity

if you believe him. more likely it was just a lie.

[forsaken1111]

Let us not forget that this game also had showcased a 'playable demo' at one point before everything was refactored to infinity

if you believe him. more likely it was just a lie.

The video showed him iterating through turns and performing actions. If it was a scripted falsehood it was fairly convincing. It looked to me like an early prototype of the game prior to them trying to implement the stretch goals.