Blogs

Isn't wonderful how one simple change can leave the game running in a totally different direction? These past few weeks I have treaded through a complete turn around (for the better) in my game Battle of the Aces (so much that the name will be different). Same mechanics just organized differently.

The theme of the game was close to none; no real depth in meaning. Until I decided to patch the enormous hole in my game design; the none existant theme.

Fall is upon us. The kids are headed back to school, the crops are ready to be harvested, and the leaves will soon be changing on the trees. It is about this time of year that I always think of the changing seasons, more than any other time of year. And that leads us to the premise for this contest. We want you to design a game where time is a resource to be managed. For example, where you can actually manipulate time, like you can in games like Red November. Other games for research include Chronos Conquest, Village, Seasons, and T’zolkin.

Voting has finished and the finalists in the 5th Street Challenge have been announced. Thanks to The Game Crafter community for voting, and all the contestants for entering. Phil from 5th Street Games now has his work cut out for him narrowing the list of semi-finalists down to a list of finalists.

After the initial reveal of the board-game on Reddit people were really impressed by how the game presented itself and that made me really happy. The next step is to offer interested viewers a chance to read the rules and see video tutorials of how the game plays but that is a different test for another time. This first, initial impression, I have passed really well and you can check everything at https://www.facebook.com/WhatWeMakeIs.

At The Game Crafter we have many requests for interlocking tiles, however, we're not sure exactly what the greater community is looking for, so we thought we'd ask. Here's a laser cut prototype of some various interlocking tiles we made:
http://cl.ly/image/3f1g3n0D1G0o

What sizes and shapes would you want?

Is it more important to be able to rotate and interlock each edge of the tile, or is it more important that the tiles could interlock when upside down? (it's a geometry problem that you can't do both)

If you had interlocking tiles, what would you use them for?