Hey all, I'm cruising right along with the card designs, and settled on something I really dig. At the same time, I wanted to talk a bit about how cards work in the game.
Cards in General
In Deeds Drawn, most of the moment-to-moment follows this pattern:
Read the card's prompt.
Choose your approach to solving it (using character cards.)
Roll for the outcome.
Pretty straight forward, if you're comfortable with some interpretation.
Foes
Below, is an example of a "Foe" card, front and back. As you pass (or fail to pass) challenges, you'll rotate the card a certain number of times. If you would ever repeat a challenge you've already passed, you instead flip the card over. At this point, the mob becomes desperate, and has a new set of challenges. Beat them here, and you defeat them. Defeat them, and you get their reward.
An example Foe, front and back.
In the mix, are "Stat" icons (left of the prompt,) and "Risk" icons (right of prompt.) Stats help determine the DC of a check (which we'll talk about in a later post,) and the Risk determines the effects if you fail a check. Fail softly, and you eat the first risk. Fail hard, and you suffer them both.
Risks can cause you to exhaust your cards, making them temporarily unusable... or they might disarm your weapon, poison you to prevent healing during downtime, flee from the fight entirely, and so on. The goal is to reflect change the entire feeling of a fight... not just beat them down until their health is zeroed.
We'll talk more about stats and rewards later.
Let me know what you think of the current design. Thanks, folks! -Wrel
Super quick update: I've had a couple folks ask if they can make a late pledge. If this sounds like you (or anyone who might be interested,) the pre-order store is now open!
Additionally, once the Deeds Drawn survey goes out (which I've tentatively slated for August, but it might be sooner,) there will be a question that asks if you want to bundle the shipping with your Gossamer Frontier order. Folks who backed Gossamer Frontier will see the same question on theirs.
However...
I don't think people who order via the pre-order store see the same survey as the folks who pledged during the campaign. So anyone who pre-orders Deeds Drawn past this point, I'll just reach out to by hand to confirm.
The campaign has officially concluded, and it all went pretty freaking well. Thank you so much for throwing your support behind the project. I can't wait to get these cards in your hands.
As a quick recap though, we hit all our stretch goals right there at the end!
Thank you again for helping spread the word. Now I get to do the fun job of finishing the game (mostly balance and rules cleanup at this point,) and the less-fun job of handling all the BackerKit survey stuff.
Based on my current progress, Deeds Drawn is definitely going to land before Gossamer Frontier, but you'll be able to choose whether or not you want to wait and ship them both out at once (in the case that you also purchased Gossamer Frontier physical copies.) It'll be one of the questions on your survey, which will be sent once we're a bit further along. We'll talk about how all that works in a later update.
UPDATE: Aaaaaaaaand it's done. VIOLET FOILED EDGES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. 💜
Reaaaaal quick update, folks. We're here in the final stretch, and only a few shares away from hitting our goal for the purple-foiled card edges. You can do it!
Here's a motivational goat to support you.
But you know who the real G.O.A.T. is? It's you. Let's finish strong, folks! -Wrel
Hey there, folks! Quick campaign update for you. The results are in on the foiled-edges poll. It turns out that (out of 100 votes,) violet is the victor!
Please forgive the janky mockup.
With the caveat that, we could still use some help reaching the stretch goal to unlock them.
The edges themselves are pretty pricey, so the aim is to offset the cost. Facebook (or other) shares help spread the word, but hitting around 250 pledges is the ballpark to make the numbers work.
That said...
There's just one week left in the campaign!
After we wrap up, I'll be using June to finish contracting the art (there are at least a couple pieces still needed,) and hopefully finishing the design. Playtesting helped reveal some weak areas that I'm reinforcing, as well as some earlier preconceptions that didn't fit when rubber met the road.
For those interested in more detail on that front, I left a (pretty lengthy) design blog 📝 after the jump!
Hey all, I just posted a poll to get your take on the color we'd use for foiled edges. The cards might receive some color or compositional changes in the future, so I might be jumping the gun a bit, but I think they'll all turn out gorgeous regardless.
As a note, we're past the half-way point toward getting foiled edges, and not even a week into the campaign yet. You've been doing a great job helping spread the word, let's keep it rolling!
Hey all, I'm cruising right along with the card designs, and settled on something I really dig. At the same time, I wanted to talk a bit about how cards work in the game.
Cards in General
In Deeds Drawn, most of the moment-to-moment follows this pattern:
Read the card's prompt.
Choose your approach to solving it (using character cards.)
Roll for the outcome.
Pretty straight forward, if you're comfortable with some interpretation.
Foes
Below, is an example of a "Foe" card, front and back. As you pass (or fail to pass) challenges, you'll rotate the card a certain number of times. If you would ever repeat a challenge you've already passed, you instead flip the card over. At this point, the mob becomes desperate, and has a new set of challenges. Beat them here, and you defeat them. Defeat them, and you get their reward.
An example Foe, front and back.
In the mix, are "Stat" icons (left of the prompt,) and "Risk" icons (right of prompt.) Stats help determine the DC of a check (which we'll talk about in a later post,) and the Risk determines the effects if you fail a check. Fail softly, and you eat the first risk. Fail hard, and you suffer them both.
Risks can cause you to exhaust your cards, making them temporarily unusable... or they might disarm your weapon, poison you to prevent healing during downtime, flee from the fight entirely, and so on. The goal is to reflect change the entire feeling of a fight... not just beat them down until their health is zeroed.
We'll talk more about stats and rewards later.
Let me know what you think of the current design. Thanks, folks! -Wrel
Super quick update: I've had a couple folks ask if they can make a late pledge. If this sounds like you (or anyone who might be interested,) the pre-order store is now open!
Additionally, once the Deeds Drawn survey goes out (which I've tentatively slated for August, but it might be sooner,) there will be a question that asks if you want to bundle the shipping with your Gossamer Frontier order. Folks who backed Gossamer Frontier will see the same question on theirs.
However...
I don't think people who order via the pre-order store see the same survey as the folks who pledged during the campaign. So anyone who pre-orders Deeds Drawn past this point, I'll just reach out to by hand to confirm.
The campaign has officially concluded, and it all went pretty freaking well. Thank you so much for throwing your support behind the project. I can't wait to get these cards in your hands.
As a quick recap though, we hit all our stretch goals right there at the end!
Thank you again for helping spread the word. Now I get to do the fun job of finishing the game (mostly balance and rules cleanup at this point,) and the less-fun job of handling all the BackerKit survey stuff.
Based on my current progress, Deeds Drawn is definitely going to land before Gossamer Frontier, but you'll be able to choose whether or not you want to wait and ship them both out at once (in the case that you also purchased Gossamer Frontier physical copies.) It'll be one of the questions on your survey, which will be sent once we're a bit further along. We'll talk about how all that works in a later update.
UPDATE: Aaaaaaaaand it's done. VIOLET FOILED EDGES FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. 💜
Reaaaaal quick update, folks. We're here in the final stretch, and only a few shares away from hitting our goal for the purple-foiled card edges. You can do it!
Here's a motivational goat to support you.
But you know who the real G.O.A.T. is? It's you. Let's finish strong, folks! -Wrel
Hey there, folks! Quick campaign update for you. The results are in on the foiled-edges poll. It turns out that (out of 100 votes,) violet is the victor!
Please forgive the janky mockup.
With the caveat that, we could still use some help reaching the stretch goal to unlock them.
The edges themselves are pretty pricey, so the aim is to offset the cost. Facebook (or other) shares help spread the word, but hitting around 250 pledges is the ballpark to make the numbers work.
That said...
There's just one week left in the campaign!
After we wrap up, I'll be using June to finish contracting the art (there are at least a couple pieces still needed,) and hopefully finishing the design. Playtesting helped reveal some weak areas that I'm reinforcing, as well as some earlier preconceptions that didn't fit when rubber met the road.
For those interested in more detail on that front, I left a (pretty lengthy) design blog 📝 after the jump!
