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Seattle WA (December 19th 2008) – When Seattle game company Front Porch Classics, Inc. merged with New York based Sababa Toys in 2007 many Front Porch Classics employees faced the difficult decision of what to do next. For the core creative team at Front Porch Classics the choice was simple; continue working together and have fun making games.

My first blog post...

I am utilizing this site as a way to document my game creation process, and to get outside opinions from others who have the same interests. I guess I'm still figuring out how the journal works, and I should probably browse a few other journals to see how they are put together.

Looking forward to learning a lot and making a few friends in the process.

So I've been reading the posts on Pompei and IIS, and the idea of players taking interchangable roles caught my fancy. I've never even tried to design a game before that uses roles, let alone with the roles the players play changing throughout the game, but thought I'd give it ago.

Haven't been here a while and regret not frequenting the site more frequently.
I have mostly been relying on friends for playtesting - which is now becoming a burden for them. So time to consult the professionals :)
My user page in the archives is here - http://archive.bgdf.com/tiki-index.php?page=UserPagecurufea&comzone=show...
I'll start posting up a Game Journal for my latest project - Cyber Wedding. A Dr Who themed boardgame inspired by Zombies!! that I intend to inflict on my friends on my Buck's night.

Ah, the ideas seem so good in theory - in my head - as I write out the rules, but even playtesting with my daughters quickly dispels any delusions of "the perfect game"...

Playtest Notes (December 13th, 2008 – me, Miss K, Miss A)

 Seems like the roles having different orders in different phases is unnecessarily complex. We ended up with the player holding the Governor token going first in the character selection phase and from then on the player to Governor’s right going first in each subsequent phase.

hi all.

If you have read through the rules for Hai Lung, I would appreciate some thoughts on how 'euro' it is? It feels like each new iteration is less wargame and more streamlined, but I am a little removed from 'the industry' so cannot be sure of the definition of 'euro'. Thank you.

d3nial

A confluence of personal circumstances means I am putting a lot of time and thought into this at the moment. Here's another little tweak, making this v3.5:

Hai Lung v3.5

Components
6 players' ship markers
12 Character tiles
8 PORT tiles
8 VOYAGE tiles
1 Temple Marker
1 Governor token
1 Emissary token
9 Ships' Ledgers
60 Opium chests
60 damage tokens
LOTS of 6-sided dice... say at least 50... (is that a problem?)

Game Board

In the first post I covered in scant detail the history to date of my idea for a boardgame that captured some of what made Taipan on the Apple IIc so good.

The big difference between v3.x and the previous ones is the use of character roles to replace large chunks of game mechanics and to contribute to the drastically reduced number of components. Interestingly, I don't think the rules got any more complex with the addition of character roles.

I've been doing some research on buying dice for my boardgame and came across these really cool four-sided dice.

And they are super-inexpensive (.75) for a box of 50.

http://www.amazon.com/4-sided-Blank-Color-looks-round/dp/B0018TKHXC/ref=...