I printed designs onto the back of the cardstock so that face-down cards won’t look so bad. Using cardstock with rounded corners and sharpies to color in the edges. Handwritten cheatsheets to explain the game rules. Using sharpies and different colored pens to make the prototype a little bit nicer.
He made me promise to return the pieces when I was done with them ?. Using lego pieces I borrowed from my little cousin and index cards cut into small squares. The first alpha version of the game and my first ever playtest with friends. I played the game by myself many many times before moving forward with a slightly more presentable prototype. The first ever photo of my “board game.” Using poker chips as game pieces and handwritten index cards on leftover wrapping paper as the game board. I thought it would take about a year, but it was closer to 2.5 years. It was a long journey to get it to look like this and took way longer than I had originally anticipated because life got in the way. So here’s a blog post detailing the development process from the beginning to now. With the Kickstarter finally created for my game, I thought it would be a good time to look back at the development process and see exactly how far we’ve come since the notebook brainstorming days.
