Category: Card Games

A Thunder of Dragons – The First Game

The first game of A Thunder of Dragons is designed as a tutorial. Drawing inspiration from so many legacy games, you get to play with the basic mechanics, before more complexity is added. Below is how game 1 unfolds. I’ll include relevant comments about the evolution of the game as we go.

The Components

The game comes with a rule book. Actually the whole game is a rule book, because it’s a MaYP game, and the player supplies everything else. The rules cover a few pages, and the campaign/hidden information read more

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A Thunder of Dragons – Index Page

This is an easy way of accessing all the posts regarding the design and development of A Thunder of Dragons. This is another Make as You Play game, like my still unnamed Shipwrecked game.

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18 Card Legacy Competition – The Finalists

This is a post about the design and development of The Prodigals, an 18 card legacy game. This is an adjunct to a larger project of a currently unnamed Shipwreck Game. You can see the other Blog posts at the Index for the Game.

To cut to the chase, The Prodigals did not make the finals of the competition. So development from this point, is all my own. But there’s some fascinating games that did. You can see all their entry videos below.

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Entries for the 18 Card Legacy Competition

This is a post about the design and development of an 18 card legacy game. This is an adjunct to a larger project of a currently unnamed Shipwreck Game. You can see the other Blog posts at the Index for the Game.

Button Shy Games have released 3 videos showing quick clips of the various entries. There are some very clever people out there, making some great games. Watch through the clips to see how some of the 60 entrants approached an 18 card Legacy game. I make an appearance in the third video, read more

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The Prodigals V1.01 – 18 Card Legacy Game Entry

All the required elements for my entry into The 18 Card Challenge

https://buttonshygames.com/blogs/news-1/the-18-card-challenge-design-an-18-card-legacy-game

9 cards per page, double sided PnP. Plus PnP of 2 card size stickers.

The Prodigals PnP – Page 1 Side A

The Prodigals PnP – Page 1 Side B

The Prodigals PnP – Page 2 Side A

The Prodigals PnP – Page 2 Side B

The Prodigals PnP – Stickers

The Prodigals Rules – 2 pages, double sided.

The Prodigals Video

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