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Visiting Protospiel 2009 was a very good thing for me. Not only did I get to play and see some very cool games, and get some valuable feedback and advice specific to my projects, I find myself with a strongly renewed creative energy in general.

I was able to get Show of Power* onto the testing table twice during the weekend, playing 2 4-player games with 7 different testers. The game seemed to work pretty well, but had some areas where the feedback played a big roll in shaping what the game is to become.

So, my other designer and I are release some card updates today. They are going to be changing soon because we are revamping the rule set, and how the game is going to be played to make it much smoother. I will tease you with some images that I have designed of cards. I ask that you give me feedback on the design, and layout. The Top (where the titles are) may need work, but, as for now, and testing phases, it works.

If you have questions on the game rules itself, just send me a pm or head to the forums and ask me

I started to design and test a card game, which intended to be "summer-fresh" and as light as a butterfly's wing.

The main goal is to be "repetitive" and "fast paced".

We'll see it.

Janos

I'm sure that all game design is like this, as well as many other creative endeavours. Start, stop, start, go back to the beginning....

We played through the latest iteration of Sky Pirates on the weekend, and while what is there is fairly solid now, the game feels too meandering and pointless. There are just too many things that the player can't control, and therefore too few meaningful decisions.

So I spend much of the weekend pondering what was wrong and how I could fix it, when I stumbled upon this google talk by Matt Leacock, the creator of Pandemic, on YouTube:

After a long development and testing cycle, thegamecrafter.com is officially open for business today. TGC manufactures and sells games from any game designer.