Hello all,
I came with a purpose which many can relate. Need more feedback. I've tried to organize blind play tests to disastrous results, outreached to various gamers and had okay responses, even put out PnPs in hopes of play testers. A friend told me of this forum and I decided to give it a shot.
My successes and failures are many. Currently Cambridge Games Factory has agreed to publish my pretentious little party poetry game, Haiku. My simple memory/dice game, Scrapland Shuffle is a finalist in The Game Crafters Steampunk design competition. My trick-taking game, Imps vs Puppies gets usually positive responses although few put the responses online. Currently, both of my WIP projects (Zombies Ruin Everything and Napolean in Egypt) are getting good responses.
But things are not always good as my deck-building crafting game, The Mad Machinations of Hendrick Bardleman is still not working well. Virxle Crackdown was slammed at a design contest at Geekway to the West. Yakuza Wars seems doomed to the failure pile. And my fighting card game remains unbalanced and late to the point that, should I ever finish it, the core mechanic will now be called a ripoff of Smash Up. Oh woe is me...
That's part of the reason I came here. To get as much help and opinions and possibly game testers as I'm willing to give. I am usually very active (and occasionally helpful) in The Game Crafter community chat so I hope to lurk about and be active here as well.
