Hey everybody! Just another noob here ;) I wanted to break the ice a bit and introduce myself. I have been designing games for about 15 years, but never to a commercial type of point. For that matter I have never really even finished designing a game. I get ideas, play around with them for a while, then move onto another idea. ADD in game design I guess. I thoroughly enjoy it though, as I am sure everyone else here does.
I am currently working on a collectable miniature fantasy wargame. It is designed for either online or tabletop gaming, and has a heavy focus on strategy and army design. It uses a lot of ideas from collectible card games (like M:tG or LotFR), but it is not a card game, just uses some ideas from them. This has actually been a work in progress since 2003. I putter at it now and then as I had time. I took a risk and cleaned my attic about a month ago and found all of the stuff I had, and I have since been typing up the rules and getting things 'finalized', and set up a site to house everything. I have hit a monotonous road block in working up the stats to 500+ minis though, lol. I am about 1/2 way through now.
I am mainly here to help get ideas, input, find help, help others, and otherwise connect with a community that is pretty much non-existent in my neck of the woods. Anyway, great to be here and hope to have fun chatting with you all!
Thanks for the warm welcome!
@NomadArtisan: I had thought about the same idea at one point, but wanted a more miniature focused game, so sort of phased the cards into the minis themselves. Hard to explain without seeing it. I will check out your post though.
@JefferyB: Thanks! I am hoping to get some stuff on here. Played around with the game journal thing a bit yesterday. I will be sure to post some more info though as i make tweaks and stuff.