An End Faster Than Lysis
Jacob p -
I’ll be missing you all soon, budding bacteriophages. This is the last normal blog post I will be making here. Hopefully the new artwork I did can make up for this unfortunate news. The title of this post is a reference to bacteriophages and their types of reproduction. Lysis is the fastest way they reproduce and I feel like this project has come to an end as fast as this.
Playtesting took a lot out of me this week. I have been emailing a lot of teachers about playtesting my game and trying to arrange times that work. Playtesting itself is fun, but sending countless emails to arrange it is not. I believe I’ve sent out most of the emails and now it’s time for me to reap my reward this week.
While we’re on the subject of boring things, I also did a lot of work creating a guide for the card game version of the game. A lot of the components are the same but the small changes in wording got me. I also have to approach the turn order differently but that’s a problem for another day. Along with rewording a new guide, I also reworded all the cards I have. This took a lot of time and I am certain I made countless mistakes that will come back to bite me. Hopefully, by then, I’ll have a better way of editing card descriptions.
After fixing all the wording, I printed out just over 200 cards so I could start playtesting the card game. I’m getting much better at using the card cutter, but the process is still tedious. I did take some pictures of the printed cards which can be found at the bottom of this post.
Now let’s talk about what was fun this week! I rediscovered my love for artwork and managed to finish all the environment cards in about 3 days. The art looks way better for most of the cards and overall I am very happy with how they turned out. I also started on some icons I will need to differentiate the card and board games on the cards. The icons so far are just a hexagon board and a hand of cards. The colors aren’t very imaginative (just shades of gray), but it was something new, so I enjoyed it. I was dreading doing this for a while, so I ended up creating these icons after I printed the cards. This basically means I’ll have to tell which cards are for the card and board games from memory. I did end of getting 2 playtests done at the school and was dismayed by the amount of math I was still doing to play the game. I am going to try to fix this in future playtests, but the solutions may not work out how I want.
That’s all I have for this week. The next post will be a goodbye post and probably won’t have much substance. I am hoping this project doesn’t go on ice after the project like it’s infected with Pseudomonas syringae. Below are some pictures of the most recent print.
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