This past month has been crazy in that I have been doing all sorts of hobby stuff, possibly too much!
I have been working on several games at the same time which seems to be the way I work lately, the biggest thing I have been working on is my latest game, a Victorian steam punk ship game.
I have done the final print of all the cards and tokens for the game, this includes all the ship data-cards, ship special cards, the force special cards, the all-in-one turn / fire arc / flamer and blast template! Plus, all the other tokens and markers.
Everything looks good and is ready to release, the only thing holding things up is I need to add the index, and that’s it the rules will be ready for people to play… oh also I have done the two starter fleets 3D files which will come free with the rules, just in case you don’t have any ships for the game.
I have also been working on some new ships for the game which I hope to release next year.
One of the other things I have been working is upgrading the Crystalline Wars: Arcane Battlegrounds wizard skirmish game, to this I am adding nine guilds of magic! So far, these include “The Guild of Eternal Flame” a flame focused guild, the “Circle of Whispering Shadows” a spirit focused guild and the “Order of the Verdant Grove” a healing focused guild plus six more.
Each guild will have a selection of spell attuned to their special focus, along with these spells they will have their own summonable creatures and familiars to help them fight or cast magic.
They will have their own guild strengths and of course weaknesses and don’t forget this game does not use dice to cast these spells, so no more excuses about losing because of bad dice rolls.
Crystalline Wars: Wizards Academy, this is a board game where young trainee wizards are put through their paces against hordes of summoned elementals, they have to use their spells to keep the waves of creatures from getting to them.
The game plays well but it is just a little too easy at the moment, so I have been working on rules to make things a little more of a challenge for the players, again the game will use no dice to cast spells and fight the summoned elementals.
I have been adding on top of the eight different enemy types eight bosses including the fire elemental boss Fire Elementals “Infernos, Lord of Embers” and the metal elemental boss “Ferragoth, The Iron Sentinel” and others, each of these bosses has a special bonus that it adds to the elementals of the same type, these maybe extra moves or attacks.
And the other rule set I have been working on is my Zombie rules, yep that is still a work in progress, albeit slow progress!
All the basic rules are in place and work well, all I have been adding and adjusting is the zombie control system and this is just about done, next up will be the scenarios / campaign system, I have all the ideas I just need to get them written down and then of course it will be some playtesting.
And then I have also been designing some simple robots for another boardgame, this one is a robot battle game, these robots are just for me to play games at home. These robots will be for the solo game, three sentinels against your single robot, it is a tough game.
The game is being designed at the moment hopefully ready for release sometime next year.
And last but not least I have been asked to work on an add-on for Stars & Lasers and this will be for all those Star Trek fans with ships sitting around.
The basic stuff is almost done with a good number of ships already set out on data-cards including Federation, Klingon and Romulan ships.
These should be a fun addition to the Stars & Laser rules… oh and I have also got a Star Wars Armada add-on for Stars & Lasers I may even release that soon.
Well as you can see, I have been busy doing all these rules trying to get them finished so that they can be released.
Watch out for the steam ship game that is coming very soon, hopefully before Christmas, but if not very early in the new year.
Come on over to my Discord Server and chat about any of these games or if you already play one of my games, it is a friendly place and I will always try and answer any questions that you may have.
You can find the link to the server on my site under the Community tab.
