Recently, I decided to heavily revise our flagship game, HAPPY DAGGERS. Playtesting feedback was mixed, but the real issue was it wasn’t capturing the spirit of the swashbuckling combat present in a lot of period pieces. The main issues were:<\/p>\n
1. Certain gameplay elements didn’t lend themselves to the casual game experience I was aiming for.<\/p>\n
2. Sword throwing wasn’t grokkable; most people didn’t seem to get the joke. Sword combat needed to be a little less like Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and a little more like Daffy Duck in that Robin Hood cartoon. (We are still not making a serious game.)<\/p>\n
3. Stages didn’t give a 3-dimensional feel and were uninteractive.<\/p>\n
Thus, the game has become more compact and with more detailed combat, but should be even more like a ridiculous swordfight capping off an otherwise serious Shakespeare play.<\/p>\n
I am still aiming to get the game on The Game Crafter by early November at at GaymerX in December, and I hope it still captures the spirit I originally intended for it. The prototype is coming to Celesticon on Labor Day Weekend, so stop by if you want to play! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently, I decided to heavily revise our flagship game, HAPPY DAGGERS. Playtesting feedback was mixed, but the real issue was it wasn’t capturing the spirit of the swashbuckling combat present in a lot of period pieces. The main issues were: 1. Certain gameplay elements didn’t lend themselves to the casual game experience I was aiming for. 2. Sword throwing wasn’t grokkable; most people didn’t seem to get the joke. Sword combat needed to be a little less like Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet and a little more like Daffy Duck in that Robin Hood cartoon. (We are still not making a serious game.) 3. Stages didn’t give a 3-dimensional feel and were uninteractive. Thus, the game has become more compact and with more detailed combat, but should be even more like a ridiculous swordfight capping off an otherwise serious Shakespeare play. I am still aiming to get the game on The Game Crafter by early November at at GaymerX in December, and I hope it still captures the spirit I originally intended for it. The prototype is coming to Celesticon on Labor Day Weekend, so stop by if you want to play!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phantomknightgames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}