31 October 2012

Website Development

In order to save money we've been looking at utilizing 99Designs.com for our website development.  With that said we would like to request our followers assistance with helping us to determine how it should look/feel.   We've been looking at other game publishers sites and some we like and some, well, not-so-much, but it's really about what our followers would think and for this reason we would like to get you to look at some others and provide us some input.  We listed a few below (with links) to help get something started and if you could take a look and tell us what you like and what you don't it would be incredibly helpful for us to have your input.  If there are other websites (game related or not) that you would suggest to us please feel free to comment on that as well and just tell us what you like or dislike about it.

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Let us know which one you like best in our survey at right.

28 October 2012

Generals Revision Playtesting

In case you didn't see it coming, the news just wasn't getting better.  Every time we thought we had a bright shining light at the end of the tunnel it turned out to be a train called "Tooling Cost."  We had the capital to easily cover the cost of making the game components but tooling has proven our folly.
That said, our attendance at Phoenix Comicon seems to be paying off in a big way because of my discussion with Ken St. Andrew (in case you may have missed it you can look at our blog posts from late May and early June to catch up).  He was the one that planted the seed for the idea of Generals of the Revolution even further into the future and we think we have a way to make it work with a 'dumbed down' version of Generals where we would only have to manufacture the Caltrops (tooling cost was still $12k for that one) and with the extra capital available we could potentially have a larger first run of the game.
Then, for those who purchase the game, we could offer the other pieces as expansions of the game, or when the game gets popular and we have more capital we could offer the whole game as intended originally as a stand alone as well.  We already have expansion ideas for the whole game.
So this is where we now stand and this brings us to the main reason for the post.   WE NEED PLAYTESTERS :)
The more we get the faster we can get the rules written for the new game and hopefully get Mark started on some players aids, etc.
Who's in?