Generals game

We invited the Call family to come over and play Generals of the Revolution last night.  They already had an idea of how to play since I had given them one of the prototype games with a set of rules quite some time ago.  They indicated that some of them had played it 3 times and had some questions about some of the rules.  I knew going into it that the rules would need some more work based on pictures Aaron had posted on Facebook.  We played and talked for about 3.5 hours and got as far as you see below.  Had we stayed focused on the game we probably would have gotten much further but there were questions that I had for them and ones they had for me, and then the occasional girls camp song since Jess recently got back from girls camp. :)

This is probably my favorite board setup that I have played and I wish we could have played longer but it was late and we were all a bit tired.  One thing that would have made the game better was a 4th player to even out the board, but it was great nonetheless and I appreciated the input and time we had playing.

I'm excited about the opportunity to play games on Labor Day weekend and the Calls have commented that they look forward to it as well.

RandomCon

Jay and I had the excellent opportunity to attend RandomCon July 9th and 10th and exhibit our games, meet other game designers, and best of all interact with other gamers.  I say other gamers and while I consider myself a game player I am nowehere near the gamer of people we were abel to meet.  On Saturday Jay and I played a 2 player game of Generals of the Revolution.  Jay beat me fairly handily as you might be able to tell by the finsihed game below.

Then we had some others join in the playing.  They both appeared to enjoy the game and have even started following us on Facebook as well.

We look forward to attending again next year and anticipate having Mercenaries of the Revolution published and ready for play.  We enjoyed mingling with the game players there.

We like the look of the game with the actual art on the board and cards.  It will only be better when it goes to actual production.

New Name

Jay and I had the opportunity to attend RandomCon and share our game concepts with Gamers.  During the course of sharing the game there was another game developer that took interest in the game and as often is the case there was the comment that the Troop Rockers looked like Jacks.  They, to be brutally honest, do remind one of those play toys.  But then he made the comment that they reminded him of Caltrops and when asked told us what a caltrop was and I thought, "What a potentially interesting name for the playing piece."
Todd has always laughed that I used the name Troop Rocker and suggested I find a new shorter name for the piece.
So, I now put the question out to our followers and ask, "What do you think of the name change to Caltrops?"