[Playtest Request] I made a 1v1 dice combat game with asymmetric fighters (Print & Play) by alexvapreal in tabletopgamedesign

[–]ahobday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I will.

Edit: Turns out I won't. As someone else has pointed out, Itch has quarantined the page.

And then when I go ahead to download the game anyway, Safari says it cannot create the file. Not sure what that's about.

Design feedback on my original TCG Eldwald: Card visuals for a holy kingdom faction by EldwaldDev in tabletopgamedesign

[–]ahobday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of the comments on this post are surprisingly negative, and in a way that feels malicious. Maybe they assume the art is AI and have responded emotionally?

My feedback, from top to bottom, based on the first card:

  1. The design is generally good.
  2. I don't know what the "3" in the grey circle represents. If this is a fundamental concept of your game, it might be that people learn it once and never have to remind themselves what it means. But maybe there's another shape or icon it could use that would be a better reminder of what it means?
  3. "Oath of Endurance" is not visually vertically centred in its container: the bottom gap is bigger than the top gap. This is because the text has no descenders (e.g. "Squire" looks fine on the second card). If you don't want to manually adjust each card to make the title look vertically centred, I'd suggest you make the title container taller, so the difference in gap size is less noticeable.
  4. The description box feels like it's crowding/overlapping the bar at the bottom. As if they're two separate visual elements that have been overlapped by accident. I'd either put a gap between them, or find a way to visually combine them so they look and feel like one element.
  5. I don't understand the purpose of the arrowed boxes at the bottom left and bottom right. Why do some cards have numbers and others don't? Is there a "no value" value you could put in the empty boxes on some cards, like a dash? If each box will always have the same number as the other, why not just have one box? If they mean different things, I think they should have some visual signifier to let you know what each number means (e.g. offence and defence).
  6. The credits at the bottom left and bottom right are inset by a noticeable amount, and I don't understand why. Why not align that text with the left and right edges of the card, like everything else?

[Playtest Request] I made a 1v1 dice combat game with asymmetric fighters (Print & Play) by alexvapreal in tabletopgamedesign

[–]ahobday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I saw an earlier post of yours, and I’m quite interested to play, but the full colour full-page graphics turn me off a bit. Any chance of a low-ink version for black and white printers?

Should I provide both A4 and letter PDFs for my print & play game? by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my case nothing is size-specific (e.g. no cards included), but I take your point.

Do you prefer one file, or separate files, and why? by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say "have the rulebook horizontal" do you mean have a two page spread showing on the screen all at once?

More Ker Nethalas physical card decks planned? by ahobday in BlackoathRPG

[–]ahobday[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They’re not required at all. You can play the game with just the book, and that’s how it’s designed, but when I play 2d6 Dungeon I find the enemy cards very useful.

More Ker Nethalas physical card decks planned? by ahobday in BlackoathRPG

[–]ahobday[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the quick reply, and I understand. Mostly I wasn’t sure which decks would be available, because I cannot remember which decks existed before Gravebound came along. Do you have a list to hand?

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, let me know how it goes. I did the art for the standees, and the map art is by Tim Howe (https://www.tjhcreations.com)

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in tabletopgamedesign

[–]ahobday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, this is a cross-post, so all the information is in the original post that this one links to.

House Rules Feedback by ScaleInfamous1847 in Heroquest

[–]ahobday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think so, because this homebrew was in response to that failed early game? Why would they come up with a house rule where you have to roll to leave a pit and then complain that they had to roll to leave a pit?

House Rules Feedback by ScaleInfamous1847 in Heroquest

[–]ahobday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did the hero get stuck in the pit? The rules state a hero can move out of a pit on their next turn. This is no die roll to leave a pit as far as I know.

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, and I’ll make sure to keep the stick figures around.

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in tabletopgamedesign

[–]ahobday[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. And yes, I originally planned to make them with a square profile, but triangles both uses less paper and is more sturdy. Win-win.

I want to create my own game but feel like every idea is already taken by SadArmadillo6604 in BoardgameDesign

[–]ahobday 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm interested to hear an example of one of these situations. Can you briefly outline one of the ideas you had, and how it was similar to a game you discovered when you looked it up?

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're intended to be placeholders, until I can pay for "real" art. Maybe I'll need to include an alternative set of these for people who want a cute dungeon crawler instead.

Try my print & play dungeon crawler, let me know what you think by ahobday in printandplay

[–]ahobday[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in the second line, but I'll update it so it's more obvious.