Hey y’all,
The last six months have been a blur. I started working at a library overseeing a makerspace and tried getting my health back on track. Things are looking up in most everything. Except for my creative output but I’ve been working towards getting that fixed too. I’ve been striving to strike a balance between work, play, and family. I did make a mini-game jam RPG though called Letters to Myself.
This week I continued with designing cards and finishing out rules. I did not have enough cards to keep gameplay interesting for the entire amount of time I wanted. I have about 300 cards altogether (my goal is about 500 or less). I am lacking “encounter” cards or challenges the players will face. By my count, I need about 80 more deck cards, 40 boss cards, and 80 more encounter cards.
This week I made game board mockups. I read several different blogs and theories about good designs for game boards and I tried a few different types out. I also made templates for printing the cards. I found all the art asset dimensions that I would need to properly print the game. Then I hand wrote out some mockup designs on index cards.
This week I made a file structure for keeping all of my cards organized. In a deck building game, it is very typical that base game sets can get to be over 500 cards at launch. With expansions over 1,000. I wanted to make a “future proof” organization system to keep all those cards straight. So I made a Google Docs folder and a Sheets file.
Elves & Elevators (working title) is a deckbuilding game at its core. Deckbuilding games are different than the board game standard of ‘trading card games’. In a TCG, players collect and build decks of cards to play against one another. In a DBG, all the players begin with the same cards and purchase cards in the game to add to their decks.
Calculating Normals 
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