u/BriggyBomb

So much work goes into putting together another prototype DUGG game kit to give to playtesters.

A labour of love though, and it will be so worth it in the end (or so they say).

Anyone else care to share how many hours they’ve spent playing kindergarten crafts to send their dream game off to be scrutinized?

For those on a shoestring, do you sub paper for cards, and cardboard for meeples? If not, how have you done it? Would love to hear other prototype and playtest prep stories.

A really productive playtesting session today with our game Don’t Break The Net. (Cards are just placeholders while the art is arting). One of those sessions where you end up breaking the game and it immediately gets 100% better afterward because you saw something you hadn’t seen before.

The game is a speedy party card game where players swap cards in an attempt to achieve X units of weight of fish (the capacity of their net) without going over. Character cards provide certain assistive special abilities, and a Chaos event mid-round can help or hinder along the way.

Tell me about one of your greatest “Bionic Game” moments (where it ended up stronger after being broken and rebuilt).

(Y’all might be getting sick of seeing my crocheted ottoman covers 😂 - I may have to add them to our Tall Box Games logo or something).

Looking for some feedback on a tile design for our upcoming tile-laying, strategy and survival game. Tiles are meant to link up and create pathways that characters follow as they hunt for food, water, campfire fuel, and other things related to the primary objective of the game. Do you prefer the softer one or the more defined one?