Welcome Back

1/2/25

And happy New Year! Hopefully you did something pleasant to ring in the most recent lap around the sun. 

I’m back in the lab (the local library) and honestly I crushed a set of rules today.

I’ve been finding that I have some difficulty writing rules because they always come out kinda the same. However, I found a post on one of the Board Game groups I’m a part of on Facebook and it mentioned how writing a rough draft on Docs and transferring that to something like Adobe Publisher to make it look pretty is how they do it.

I think the idea of letting something be a draft is helpful. I didn’t feel the need to make this set of rules perfect or final. I can come back to it and fix words that I wasn’t thrilled with, but that do the job. 

I’ve also written these rules at least 20 times now over the past 3 years and they all kinda feel the same at a certain point.

Until this one DUN DUN DUHHHHHH

There’s your smile :) 

Anyways, I started by writing a backstory for the game, something I’ve done before so I have the concept already. But this time, I just let it flow I guess. I went from the backstory right into the rules. 

Telling the IRL players of the game, how The Gazbee Corporation started, and how they got to where they are now. And introducing them to the show as if they were inhabitants on the planet Foase, where this all takes place. 

The game show bleeds into the game we play as real people and I think that adds to the immersion. 

People love immersion I gotta tell ya. 

Something about blenders.

I think that’s all I have for today’s update. I may do it daily, I may not, not really sure. I guess whenever I feel like it. 

I did make some decent progress on Round & Round too. I now know how to implement the two boards associated with the game. 

By having a Fog of War over the playable area, players aren’t sure what objects are where. However, there is a much more detailed map with precise spaces where the GM can designate what goes where, allowing for a more clear execution than I had had previously. 

Hopefully that makes cents. 

Alrighty, I’m gonna go scroll through Board Game groups and maintain “The Virtuous Cycle”

Take care, brush your hair, see you out there.

-Mark [:^)