26 April 2012

New Revision & Playtester-Hunt

The Main Rulebook is, right now, a 23 pages long GoogleDocument.
At this stage the game is fully playable.
I NEED PLAYTESTERS!
Leave a comment here with your email and you will be contacted by me (what a in incredible honour!) and will get access to the working files.


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The latest revision of the Tactical Ops game text has finally ended.
The basic manual is now complete in all of its parts, also incorporating all the annotations and modifications that were produced by the first batch of playtests.


Many clarifications and bug-fixes have been added.
The most revised chapters are the Action PhaseChallenge and Equipment ones.


There is also a brand new Appendix introducing the basic ideas an concepts regarding future Setting-in-a-Box add ons.
It also explains and encourages a more structured use of the standard rules in order to achieve a true "World Building" effect during the game.


What it still needs is, in no particular order:
- an avalanche of EXAMPLES about, like, everything
- a new Game Summary Chart (the old one is obsolete)
- a good round of text readability and understandability tests


Also I'm officially starting to work on the first SiaB which, as soon as it looks ready, I want to include in the base rulebook.
Those who have followed my previous projects will be already familiar with this setting: DreamWake !


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The Main Rulebook is, right now, a 23 pages long GoogleDocument.
At this stage the game is fully playable.
I NEED PLAYTESTERS!
Leave a comment here with your email and you will be contacted by me (what a in incredible honour!) and will get access to the working files.

17 April 2012

The Perils of Real Life

Well sorry for the long delay, but LIFE happened and I got my ass from Roma (Italy) to Granada (Spain) and I've been spending the last weeks adjusting to the new everything.


What is the status of the game?
I still have to post the last Actual Play, but being my memory as bad as it possibly can be I'm starting to nurture some doubts about my ability to accomplish such a task after all this time :P


The good news is that while the experience was still fresh in my mind I took a lot of technical notes and have been implementing rule-changes based on them.


Now the text is almost completely revised in light of such annotations, and I have to say it looks pretty damn rad u_u


On a side note ... you may have noticed that ... WE HAVE A LOGO!!!
Thanks again to Susan Micale for that, she is the official winner of our latest contest ans she will be rewarded as such!