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Would anyone care to comment on how many "new" so called board game ideas/designs have been dropped infront of potential publishers that are fundamentally derivative in design and more or less a variant on chess. In particular despite pieces
having didifferent values or so-on. The board is the familiar 8x8 squares and pieces move and take others in different manor.

Kingdoms of Immacus is an empire-building strategy card game that can be played with two or more players. Players will be able to build their empires with personalized decks (minimum 50 cards) that are only limited by the player’s imagination and a building sideboard of 15 cards known as the Blueprint Pile. Players take turns placing various cards down that will help them destroy their opponent’s kingdoms. To win the game, players must accumulate 15 Dominance Tokens from the five methods of accumulation: Brutality, Ingenuity, Sovereignty, Calamity, and Expandability.

I've started this blog a little backwards, putting the cart before the horse so to speak. So I wanted to start off this week with a highlight of one of my card types: the follower. The follower is the primary unit card in your arsenal. It can attack, use abilities, and power up. let's take a closer look at what makes the follower card unique.

In reference to attached "Follower Card Explanation" file:

1. This is the follower icon. Any card that has this icon is considered a follower. It is affected by follower-specific spells and abilities.

I am now far along in the development process of my card game Kingdoms of Immacus to talk about it a little bit. First I’ll go into some history on the game. Kingdoms of Immacus was once a board game concept I was working on based on characters I had developed back in high school around 1999. Like a minority of young awkward teens, I spent much of my time alone and kept my mind busy making various board games or remixes of current games. I was fortunate enough to have a brother and three sisters to playtest with (even though we didn’t know that’s what we were doing).

Chip Shop has been a labour of love for me over the past two years. It has been through many changes and revisions and isn't yet 100%, but I have always needed to get something live before it becomes a never ending process of 'polishing'.

After several play test sessions, I consider the game 'ready enough' to put up for sale and available to the public.