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Monday, April 11, 2005

-+@ Asimo @+-

Yeah, some guy named Asimov wrote "I, Robot".



Well, that's right, I did more HumAliens today, and with the Robots in, that means all the HumAliens from New Order have been added to the engine as cards. I can't guarantee that all of them will work on the engine though, as some of them have quite specific mechanics, but unless I get a playtest game or twenty with all the cards, there's no way I can know for sure. So that's 73 out of 152 cards... man and It thought I was almost at the home stretch, I'm barely halfway there. Actions, Pets and Technology left to go with about 40 cards on the latter 2 and the rest being Actions.

Sunday evening/Monday morning is always slow on MND tournament action and today wasn't an exception. Mitch played a game to qualify ... now he's the only person to have qualified, eventhough he's not the first one to have qualified. That's confusing, but Nick qualified, but then more people got added and the number of qualifying games were increased, so Nick has to play catchup now.

I got 3 Playtest reports today for Tainted Glimpses... which reminds me I best post those that needs changing as defects. Had to give them coppers for the playtest reports, one of which was rather good if I may say so. Progress on Tainted Glimpses is still slow though, but I know I'm at the home stretch... and with the next 5 cards planned, it'll leave me about 7 more to do after that. Meanwhile, I've announced, rather ambitiously that I'm going ahead with both Twilight War and Exodus Flight. Twilight War will be 100 cards and will be split among the various regions in the same way that TG was. Artwork will be a potpourri of stuff, but there's still stuff from Holmberg and the various other artists who worked for 2i. Card design has also already started. Exodus Flight will be based on the names and the artwork of the Insiider RP cards - all three expansions - eXodus, Dreamstorm and Chimefall. I'm still trying to get permission from the various artists there, but hopefully they will all agree to this.

And in other news? Sideshow has finally gone public Beta. It's a licensed game too so that should be interesting. Mark is also busy working on GRfOS and Summer Camp, and he's setting up a playtest reward program for GRfOS too. Nice to see that I have a follower in that aspect.

Martin has also been busy - there was a Doomtown fix (and no, no upkeep counter, but that's not a problem), and I think a ME fix. Hopefully, he took out some time to fix HotS as well. Logan is still busy tweaking SR, Tomi on Kult and the surprise today is that Thomas made an update to 7 Seas. It's a good day all around.

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1 Comments:

  • At April 12, 2005 3:53 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Martin's speaking :
    - titles are from "Humaliens" this month (it is Asimov that helped me much, since I had this card in one of my spare starters)
    - I fixed Doomtown, and MECCG (but the latter needs multiple additional fixes), but it is Ed that fixed HotS (and he did right).

    This comment was just made to clarify things. And to win the "title" contest of course :)

     

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