We’re pretty excited to be receiving our Misdirection artwork from our talent artist Anthea — she has done an absolute amazing job! We’re drawing closer to announce our Kickstarter date, so stay tuned!
Current Project Update.
It’s been a while since our last update. While Embargo’s artwork progress has come quite a long way, our deadline was early January in order to ship out review copies for people to review. Unfortunately, as everyone knows December can be a hectic month, and that impacted everything on our end. At this point in time, the Embargo Kickstarter is not going to launch on January 30th.
Misdirection however is come along very fast. By the way things are looking, Misdirection will be launching on Kickstarter before Embargo, while there is no date set in stone, we’re looking at the first quarter of 2019 still. This is our year to join the board game market, we’ve got so many project we want to share with the world, it’s so exciting. However, we’ll be fulfilling one game before launching another, to ensure our focus is on the project entirely, leaving no doubt in our ability to deliver the product.
Embargo progression – a look back.
Below is a picture of the progress with Embargo’s Contract cards. Most of these have never seen the light, but they were played with on the internal play-tests.
As you can see, since February, they’ve changed significantly, evolving into what is a simple yet effective card with icons (which is also not the final version). Business names have been removed, as they weren’t necessarily needed, and only really used through one mechanism, which was very rarely triggered — it’s also more thematic now, with the card actually depicting a truck in your loading bay of your player board.
Post-PAX with Embargo
What a ride PAX was this year!
Demonstrating the game on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon was some intense stuff! We played with over 60 different people over the course of two days. And the feedback was all positive! Well, it was, but as always, some things could be improved. So that’s what I’m doing right now.
Embargo will no longer be a ‘Euro Game’ — it will be more an ‘Engine Builder’ where players strive to create an on-going effect and as the game progresses it get’s easier to get higher point cards. At the moment, the game stagnates and stays at the same level all the way through. I want it to be able to get more intense and your warehouse get stronger in order to do the harder and higher delivery contracts. The way this is going to be done is to introduce ‘Reward’ cards — these cards are going to add a permanent increase to a specific freight colour, meaning you don’t need to have that freight in your warehouse to deliver the contract. These cards are received automatically, every 5 contracts you deliver.
A few Contracts and Sabotage cards will be face-up, out onto the table, players will be able to select what contracts they’re going to chase, which eliminates a bit of randomness to the game. Also changed is the turn system. You no longer get an action sequence of 5 actions, but you get a choice that runs along the lines of; Pick-up 3 different coloured freight, Pick-up 2 of the same coloured freight, Pick up a contract / sabotage card.
The scoring system has also changed! You can keep your total Victory Points to yourself, you’ve no need to tell everyone what you’re at, but the limit is 30. Once a player hits 30 Victory Points, the end-game begins. All other players have one more turn, before scoring up. You look at the delivery contract’s you’ve completed, and your score is your lowest completed contract colour. The player with the highest score of their lowest completed contract colour wins! This is going to create some interesting situations, and I’m looking at testing it this week with the internal testing team we use.
That’s all we have to tell at this stage, other then some thematic changes to make it more immersive, that’s it. I probably don’t have to say it, but this is all a work in progress, some things on there may not go through, but some things may! Won’t know until next time!
Find us at PAX!
We’re going to be in the Collaboratory area of the Tabletop Hall at PAX with Embargo! This is the first time Embargo is out in the world and we would love to hear people’s impressions and thoughts on it!
It’s been such a long time since it’s inception and our first video-log (to which we’re long overdue for another one) and the game has changed quite a bit. We’re also working on a specific reward for those that play the game at PAX and back it in January on Kickstarter, so stay tuned.
Hope to see you there!
Introducing Embargo!
We’re proud to announce our second project; Embargo.
Embargo is a competitive 2-6 player game where players are in control of a freight delivery company and must deliver more contracts than your opponents.
We’re vlogging our development of the game, which you can view here:
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New video coming soon!
Apologies for the lack of updates! We’ve been hard at work on Misdirection as well as a new project we’re going to be announcing this week. In the near future we’re hoping to announce our Kickstarter launch date, but until it’s set in stone we don’t want to commit only to push it back.
But, now regarding our new project; the announcement will come in the form of a vlog, but not in the traditional sense. The vlog will follow the whole development of our next project, showing inspiration, to designing the concept and developing the game mechanics. So stay tuned, and as soon as it’s up we’ll post it here and on our facebook page.
Welcome!
Welcome to our website!
We’re working on getting everything website related completely up and running, but for now the details about our very first game; Misdirection are available on its page!