Continued from “Refining Card Layout & Iconography”
My starting point in designing Scenic was simply that it was to be a card game, based around a single deck. Investigating a short print run of the game, or even Print on Demand, from The Game Crafter showed me that they printed cards, 18 to a sheet, so originally I was working with any multiple of that. 3 x 18 is a normal 54 card deck. Adding an extra sheet of 18 would give me a slightly
Continued from “What’s the Hook”
When making a set collection game, there needs to be some obvious way for the players to see which cards belong to which sets. And when making a set collection game with cards that can belong to two different sets, there needs to be two obvious ways. Such as the numeral and the suit printed prominently in the corners of a standard playing card.
Good Graphic Design shows, at a glance, which cards can be grouped together. Skyward,
Game ideas are cheap. This must be true because I have a few of them, and they didn’t cost me anything, save for, you know, a life time of personal experience and endless hours spent watching TV and movies. My memory is not what it used to be, so it seems a good idea to write these ideas down while I have them.
… is the magical forest location of my first card game, mentioned in my last couple of posts, and inhabited by Sprites, Nymphs and Gnomes. But I think this simple card game will
Continued from “The origin of a beginning”
With the origin of a beginning of an idea in mind, I started to think about the Hook of the game. (Oh yes, I had been veraciously absorbing boardgame podcasts, blogs and articles, and had picked up all manner of good ideas about how to move forward in this endeavour.) What would make the game … not unique, I’m certainly under no delusion there … but memorable? What would make someone choose it over all the others that are
