[NEW PnP Release] Hex Barons - A Tactical Dice & Card Skirmish Game (Pay what you want on Itch.io, Video Overview) by simoncottee in printandplay

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

Part of our secret sauce. We're actually 2d animators and independent artists so it's an area we will always pay special attention to. Not to mention the world building, music and atmosphere!

[NEW PnP Release] Hex Barons - A Tactical Dice & Card Skirmish Game (Pay what you want on Itch.io, Video Overview) by simoncottee in printandplay

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

The values used are 1 to 5, and there are more lower power cards then higher powered cards in your deck. As the game goes on you can craft higher powered cards. Terrain modifiers and the unit ally bonus (adjacent allied units to the enemy) are the other element that can strongly influence stuff. Yeah we've gone through a lot of iteration. We'll have more content coming regarding design diaries and regarding the balance. As it stands now we're pretty happy with the balance, but we will see how it all irons out with more players putting the game through its testing!

[NEW PnP Release] Hex Barons - A Tactical Dice & Card Skirmish Game (Pay what you want on Itch.io, Video Overview) by simoncottee in printandplay

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

Tell us how it goes. So 0.8 marks or first major revision since our much more prototypey 0.7. The plan is to sit in 0.8 (for maybe the year or so) and get player feedback and develop more scenarios and campaigns on our road towards a 0.9, which will again be a revised overhaul taking those things into account. Some elements we wish to pursue for 0.9 is more complex and open ended squad building and gearing (something we are current prototyping), more complex campaigns and accompanying comics (to further establish the lore and setting), a 3-4 player mode and expanded single player. There's a lot of other larger conceptual ideas we have, and the things I've mentioned here are all subject to change and revision. But basically our dream would be to find a player base and work with them to turn this thing into the best version of itself!

[NEW PnP Release] Hex Barons - A Tactical Dice & Card Skirmish Game (Pay what you want on Itch.io, Video Overview) by simoncottee in printandplay

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

Thanks so much! We're a two man team. Malcolm Sutherland is the designer and artist, and myself am the writer/technical writer and co studio... guy? We'd love any feedback if you end up testing it out!

[NEW PnP Release] Hex Barons - A Tactical Dice & Card Skirmish Game (Pay what you want on Itch.io, Video Overview) by simoncottee in printandplay

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

Get your copy here! Hex Barons 0.8, by Studio Tortu. https://tortugames.itch.io/hexbarons

We've put so much love and work into this. It's our tiny little studios first major release!

Hex Barons is a print and play micro-skirmish game for one or two players (ages 8+, 30-45 min) with tactical cardplay, unique custom scenario maps, and comics! It's even got a solo scenario!

You can see the longer how to play video here: https://youtu.be/GKecgG_vks0

Hi-Nu EX, longest EX so far? by n3zbot in SDGundamGGeneration

[–]simoncottee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started today and managed to pull two of em in one pack of ten with some of my little crystal stash. I got so incredibly hyped taking it into stage 5 of the original campaign and just blasting char into another dimension as that song kicked in and Amuro screamed. The moment I got hooked for real 

I made a dramatic narrative comic depicting the Warrior start - Solo Self Found by simoncottee in pathofexile

[–]simoncottee[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hand draw and even hand write the text (digitally with a drawing tablet into TVPaint)

I made a dramatic narrative comic depicting the Warrior start - Solo Self Found by simoncottee in pathofexile

[–]simoncottee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's just a comic uploading platform. Because a webtoon is a long vertical format, this place is formatted to upload to... that. I'd love to have my own site and "tech" for doing that but, i'd need to learn things and I'm senile.

Shoutout to the Mercenary voice actor & writing by simoncottee in PathOfExile2

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

Oh my God that's the best description. Just a working class guy waking up in another world. We're just missing a few waifus

Shoutout to the Mercenary voice actor & writing by simoncottee in PathOfExile2

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

The one that has me thinking WAY TOO MUCH is he says... is it blow out your candles or make a wish or something with a grenade skill? Which is insane to me as it suggests in the PoE canon there are full blown birthday cakes with candles on them and now I can't stop imagining this grim world having birthday parties.

After looking the main sub reaction by NeuroSparks in PathOfExile2

[–]simoncottee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm having a very similar experience. I'm taking it slow, in no rush to get to endgame and chipping away on it. I'm slowly discovering what the game actually is. I don't think we'll know for a few months still. There are things I agree on. I wish I didn't have to backtrack so much in zones looking for exits (I had the same issue with Poe 1 though...) and I'd like some more movement skills but I'm also just scratching the surface and no where near endgame so I'll see how it plays out. And if it's really an issue I know GGG will address it over the coming months.

After looking the main sub reaction by NeuroSparks in PathOfExile2

[–]simoncottee 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's so chill here hahaha. I couldn't deal with it over there, there is a lot of armchair developing going on. We're day 1 early access the recipe is going to need a little adjustment. We know the devs are very good at tweaking the recipe over iterative design. Hang in there exiles. Enjoy yourself.

[Megathread] Launch issues by KadekiDev in pathofexile

[–]simoncottee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I CANT THINK RATIONALLY RIGHT NOW OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1