brandsma 2024-04-16 11:03
Love that you went for designing a physical (board) game. Kudos
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → The Summoned
By cataclysmicknight and unbirthdayangel
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 199 | 3.95 | 23 | |
| Fun | 372 | 3.67 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 11 | 4.40 | 24 | |
| Theme | 311 | 4.00 | 22 | |
| Humor | 342 | 3.45 | 22 | |
| Mood | 475 | 3.67 | 22 |
Love that you went for designing a physical (board) game. Kudos
Thanks @brandsma! :D
Thats definetly an inovative project for sure, its verry impressive but man the board game are just not for me, its funny tho instead of making 1 game you made 8, nice stuff.
Very imaginative! I didn't have a printer, so I had the PDF open, and wrote on a blank paper. One suggestion I have is combining the rules with the actual score sheet, rather than have the score sheet and a separate rule book. I found myself constantly flipping back and forth through the PDF, which became tedious over time.
Wow what a great game idea! The writing was great! The audio and graphics (all in my mind based off of the writing) were amazing! Five stars! :)
sooo good, even counting that I'm not a fan of board games
Wooow, as a fan of board games I am very impressed! It’s a great work, you did a great amount of work as a game designer!
Wow haven't seen anything like this, interesting way to implement the game.
very innovative! it looks really interesting! it would be really fun too if it was implemented into tabletop simulator.
That was impressive! Tbh, I didn't manage to go through all games (I didn't have enough dice, and using some online were mostly frustrating - to the point I considered writing my own only for this games xD).
I really liked the story part, and although I didn't journal, I think the prompts where very thoughtful.
The only issue I had, was that for some games, rules where not clear, at lest not for me. I had to kinda try and figure out what interpretation made more sense. Maybe because eng is not my native, but I would suggest spending more time on writing proper steps for the games (and I tried post-jam version, but tbh it wasn't better in that regard).
Still, I enjoyed playing those games and I for sure play the post-jam version, heck, maybe even buy some nice set of dice for it :D
@knatt that's a great idea for a digital version, or if someone laminated. As it is you'd have to reprint all of the pages to play a second time if the score sheets were with the rules
Aaaawwwwwwwwww thank you so much @dyingwolfwood, and @anaastaska that's huge praise, thank you! It's always fun finding a balance between my tabletop/TTRPG creation and Ludum Dare, and that's pretty much the biggest compliment I could get!
Thanks so much @goddzeproject! Bringing something new is also incredibly amazing praise :D Almost all of these were based off of other small dice games I found, I just added some twists like adding dice, rebalancing, making them solo, etc.
@its-capp YES!!!! I don't use TTS because of their homophobia but Screentop.gg is great. I didn't have time to implement it but honestly just putting some dice and the rules there would be super easy.
@ajpl Thank you so much for all of the details! I don't think it's just because of English not being your native language; rules writing is a very tricky thing in tabletop games and usually my rules suffer because of the deadline with Ludum Dare. You did very well I'm sure, and your comment here is very well written! I can only imagine how rough digital dice would be here as so many games require you to put dice different places, lock them, unlock them, etc. I really appreciate all of this! I do want to continue it, in fact we have plans to make a set of zines (basically little booklets) that would have one or two games in each, and each would tell a fragment of the story basically pulling pages from the genie's diary. I think focusing on one or two games at a time would allow the rules to make more sense, and not be as overwhelming as sitting down and playing a dozen games at once 🤣 Especially while people are trying to go through and rate a bunch of games omg lol
Wow! I wish I had the dice to set this up! Read through the rules, this looks like a really nifty collection of games, wonderful writeup!
Thank you so much @cananaman!!!! That's super awesome of you to say :D I'm hoping to set up a digital implementation sometime in the future, although it'll likely be a while