27 May 2011

Why won't this work?!

I typed this in several times to complete the 6-letter word in Word Warp and it wouldn't take it.  Someone should contact them and let them know it's a word.  Very frustrating...

27 February 2011

Are we famous now?

I saw this car driving on the freeway and just new he must have heard of Mercenaries of the Revolution and had to have the plate...

12 February 2011

FUN!!!

It's really truly amazing to us the number of games that exist out in the industry and even the big stores probably only carry about a percent of them.  A bit frustrating as game designers thinking about getting our games on their shelves.  Most of what we come across are people like us with games they design and sell from there websites and try to get them into distribution and onto retail shelves.
One of the greatest things about designing games is the information we come across while doing research.  Having stated this, it seemed like a good idea to pass some of this information on to readers of our blog and one of the sites that we are consistently coming across is a boardgame review site by Scott Nicholson who is a library scientist and professor, but is also a game hobbyist and has his own site for sharing games that he has been given by funagaingames.com.  His site is http://www.boardgameswithscott.com/ and he does a really good job of explaining games via videos and we hope that you might find some usefulness to his site and maybe even find a game that you might be motivated to buy.
Unfortunately, he has stopped really reviewing games as of the beginning of the year and really only did family games and not wargames but interesting nonetheless.
A video review I liked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnXloqRfdA

06 January 2011

Playtesting Games for Prodigy Game Works

We're planning playtesting dates and would like to understand when people would be willing and available to play.  We obviously have Generals to a point where people are playing it with little more help than just reading the rules (something that needs to be revisited but not a priority since we have postponed publishing it) and Mercenaries just needs some more game play time to settle the rules, but it's mostly complete as well.  I've been having people play it with some revised 'John' rules and I think that is the direction that I will be taking the documentation.
We also have a 3rd game that we are prototyping so we can begin some play time with it as well.  The best way we can think of explaining the concept of this game is Monopoly on Steroids.
The big thing with all of this is we need players.  If you are interested in playtesting any of the above games for us we are eager to know.  We have started a playtest distribution list and if you would like to be added for future contact you can either go to ProdigyGameWorks.com and contact us via the contact tab or just email us at JBiggs@ProdigyGameWorks.com.
We are planning for some game play at John's house on the 15th of January from 10am to whenever people would like to stay and will have some refreshments available.  Hope to see a lot of people there and you can just leave a comment to this post to let us know if you will be coming.