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When I started making Kingdoms of Immacus, it was a pretty standard card game with some fun extra elements added in. The "Hero" acted as the damageable player, and once a Hero was destroyed, the player lost. The Hero was also able to cast spells and influence the battlefield, which made them an active participant of the game. The problem I found in the early play test sessions is that players would just wipe the board clean and then target the Hero without any real threat from it as it didn't have an active attack stat.

This week’s progress was very productive as far as testing and design was concerned. Though I didn’t finish the logo border, I did finish the head of the logo, which took longer than I wanted, but I’m very happy with the results. I did also manage to get a play test session in and have learned quite a bit from it.

The theory is that in game design 90% is in testing. I am not arguing this. I am arguing the time frame involved. I have gone from concept to published in one week. During that week 90% of the design was test playing, but it din't take years, it took days.

Yep, it seems we are now on the right track regarding the core rules. they now play much faster, smoother and are much easier to read and teach. Before I post the rules here, I would like to go into detail about the Elements & Dice found in the game:

1. A GENERAL WORD ON DICE

Dice Duelz uses custom dice, so there are no standard pips in the game. It makes use only of d6 (six-sided-dice) in various colors with custom printed sides.

If you have been following along Star Trek Five Year Mission is doing well and we have already discussed doing an expansion or two.

The first I hope will be a suite of small expansions that you can add on or mix and match as you like. This includes the expansions: Complications, Away Missions, and Special orders. All is going well with this but much more testing is required. This has not been approved as of yet but my fingers are crossed.