-+@ Cloned Queen @+-

I think I'm gonna take a break from MND today... so let's go and see what sort of goodies I got over the weekend...



Yup, Attack of the Clones, and there's a Clone Queen in there... although she's padme or whatever. I like the card design, it's clean and easy to read and the colours differentiate the different type of cards. WotC always have collector numbers and rarity marked on the cards, and this is no exception. Before this ends up as a review... lemme just say that I was impressed with the starter pack that I got - playmat, 2 decks, rules, dice and the cardboard punchout that WotC likes so much. Oh and there is even the Netrunner-ish quality where you play two different decks - Light Side and Dark Side.

I've yet to go read the AGoT rules, which I found again yesterday. Hooray. I've got to read that to see if I would actually enjoy the game. So little time to do so many things. Maybe one of these days I'll spec up the game for FFG... then again maybe not... those cards are really really expensive.

I played my non-solo Smeagol today and enjoyed the game. Sure I could do with some power rares in there... well one power rare would be enough... would be nice to be able to discard 3 cards from hand to wound a minion once. Not a lot, but it's still fun to do I guess...

Played a game of MND with Bert (mooky) just to help him test out a deck. It was fun though, mainly because I won :) Core vs Core battles are hard to do and his LE creatures with an unconventional start is interesting, but as he found out, doesn't hold out much by the time the third magi rolls around.

I had a quick chat with Martin about various other things and the end effect of it was that I got encouraged to work on Bowling. So I finally finished the images for the scoreboard and sometime tomorrow or the day after will be trying out the code for them. I think it all goes downhill from here - downhill as in easier, and hopefully not a loss of quality. We shall have to see though.

I updated the plates post and the forums as well in the middle of everything... takes quite a bit of getting used to, but I've been doing so much multi-tasking recently particularly while waiting for images to open that I'm getting used to working on two or three different things at one go.

I read AGoT rules through once and am pleasant surprised at how much of it was stolen from other games - Take Doomtown, Babylon 5 and Wheel of Time, throw them into a blender and you would probably end up with A Game of Thrones. Still, it might be interesting to play the game if only for the insights into how game development has progressed since the beginning of the millenium.

While I'm on game development, someone on Insiider moaned that all the good ideas for card games have been taken. Well, it's hard to find something unique these days I must admit and a new that that seeks to take over the market has to either come from a well established property (but even then, that has no guarantee of success - witness Beyblade), or has really innovative mechanics (Pirates of the Spanish Main comes to mind there).

Tomorrow might see my first game update this year... no, Bowling earlier in the year didn't count because it's still in development. I'm talking about a game currently available to all... and Go Fish is its name. Yes, I need the images from there for the plates post (which I'm sure nobody bothers to read these days) at the end of the month.