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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Italian Gambit

Monday, June 11, 2007

This morning I went to the post office to mail away my entry to the Lucca Game Contest.
At the counter, the postal worker was pleasantly surprised that I was sending something to Italy. She had me fill out my customs form and proceeded to ask me some questions about the content of the box.
“What’s in [...]

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Improv Challenge!

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Mischa, Dan, and myself met tonight for a couple hours at Austin Java to give Dan’s Travelogue prototype one last go-around before it was shipped off to Italy. A three-player game ran just over half an hour, and I must say, it was a pretty solid, fun card game, all around. Mischa smashed out the [...]

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My Quick Recap of Travelogue

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Things I learned from last week’s meeting, specifically about my new card game Travelogue, which I’ll be sending away to Italy for a game competition:

It ran a little long at 45 minutes.
It doesn’t scale well in regards to time to play.
There is a slow build up of cards in your hand, so a few turns [...]

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