On a quiet Friday a couple weeks ago, something happened. It was not the fall of darkness, neither the beginning of life nor civilization, but it was certainly the beginning of something.
Whatever
it was, it had been a long time coming. About six months of waiting and
work, and two more months of waiting, it arrived...
An unassuming box.
This is not, in and of itself significant. It is the culmination of hours of putting ideas together and shaping them in Open Office. There was printing, marking, and writing/rewriting the rules -- many hours of this! Then there was the chasing down of artists, the negotiation of value, and endless, endless hours of testing.
Months later, after the templates, the vector graphics, the uploads! the verifications! all done! the work sent to a small printer and, at long last, the agonizing wait...
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| The unassuming box is threatened |
This is our first prototype. This is the first game by Wild Dragon Games. An unassuming card game called "Human-Hunter-Monster-Cannibal". (This is a mouthful. We just call it our Cannibal game.) Based loosely -- one might say frivolously -- on whist, there's not a lot
involved. Even so, there are details and extras beyond measure, so much
so that this small, unassuming box is far more than just meets the eye.
Consider! that this creature
has grown over so many rules iterations. There are characters within
that we truly like and others that we dislike, but they work well. There
have been changes to the cards as some cards are less viable or more
repetitive and therefore replaced by new cards. The special action
cards, called "Occult" have changed significantly from their original forms; that is, after all, the nature of the beast.
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| Before: Every piece from the beginning |
What we had in the beginning has changed from its messy origin into something resembling our goal. We are not there yet and our unworthy photography does not do the work justice.
There
are more steps in our future. Eventually, we will have a game with a
UPC, in a box sized to our vision. Without error or blemish in colour,
with every card exactly as our hopes lead us. And with proper 2-player
rules and maybe even Solo rules.
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| After: Our current look will not be our last |
We may not be there right now, but in the end, we will find a dragon in the wilds and tame it to our own purposes.
- MSB
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