wick

neurobiologist ยฑ game & web dev

My only two design tools:
[1] "What is the experience we're trying to create" is the first & constant question
[2] To make something seem more like anything, put it next to the opposite (big guy/lil guy, happy thing/sad thing)


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@wick

We finally did the thing! I roped my siblings into playtesting a game of Lancer using Legos and a physical tabletop. The sitrep was to destroy five buildings, marked in red, because the Karrakins were using the installation to track their mobile hidden base.


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@wick

Things that need improvement:

  • better way to measure tiles. We were doing 4cm/space and had to do a lot of multiplication. Going to try wood dowels with tiles marked + get some kind of grid underlay.
  • similarly, we need aoe templates
  • I used too much terrain, it got messy ๐Ÿ˜…
  • should get status rings/tokens to mark lock-on, etc

Things that worked well:

  • it was sick as hell to be able to physically destroy Lego terrain and mechs as they fell
  • we used physical dice? For lancer?? And it turns out clicky clack math rocks continue to be inherently great.
  • witchdice works well on mobile devices for character sheets so not every PC had to have a full laptop
  • different height-terrain was fun, though it made movement costs tricky to calculate


wick
@wick

I'm learning a lot by browsing flickr and copying legs from one piece, cannons from another, etc. It's very nice to have figured out the essential pieces and having enough spares to make a lot of the designs I find... even if they're not always in matching colors ๐Ÿ˜…


wick
@wick

Was up all night feeling ill and hallucinated a leg design so here we have it in some sorta junkyard gunslinger



I'm learning a lot by browsing flickr and copying legs from one piece, cannons from another, etc. It's very nice to have figured out the essential pieces and having enough spares to make a lot of the designs I find... even if they're not always in matching colors ๐Ÿ˜…


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