Feedback, four players and the next big thing(tm)
A fairly uneventful month for Volcanique development
https://volcanique.rocks/feedback
The feedback form is the main thing I’ve actually added to the website. I bought and read Adam in Wales’ book - Playtesting: A Practical Guide for Board Game Designers. I’ve been
The next thing is to convince people to actually fill it in after they’ve played. I think the questionaire is too long and it probably needs more quick Likert scale style questions, but hey, it at least exists.
Let me get back to ya’ll on that.
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Subscription form, PAX, TGDA and more
https://volcanique.rocks/subscribe
The next thing to add will be email to email you all from.
Continue reading...September's latest
Updates and upprunes
www.volcanique.rocks
I bought a domain. ‘.com’ was taken, ‘.com.au’ sounded more like the company landing page. ‘.au’ had too many vowels
Felt on theme. Hot stuff.
Continue reading...Glossary
All the key terms
Glossary
Biome
A single colored area on a tile. A full biome consists of all adjacent, connecting areas of the same color, potentially spanning multiple tiles.
Controlled biome
A biome containing at least one critter. The player whose critter is in the biome controls it for resource and scoring purposes.
Contested biome
A conflict state created when a tile placement merges two or more previously separate biomes, resulting in critters from different players occupying the same new biome.
Continue reading...Powering on
Welcome to the powerplant
It’s been a while since I did a blog post, but in the sake of trying to keep up a bit of consistency, here’s the latest developments.
After coming up with a whole host of additional powers, I’ve ‘immortalised’ them into the rulebook. From here I can refer back to with playtesters as I determine whether they’re impactful/over or underpowered/fun.
I created a prototype physical power grid/mat to be able to track the powers in board, pics below.
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