First Prototype of THE BOX!

So I showed up at our usual gaming night to find this waiting. It is the first prototype of our box. The artisan whipped this up using scrap pine. We discovered a few problems he'll address in the next prototype - but meanwhile I went home with a pretty sweet home for my encounter cards. The actual box will not be as deep, I have almost three full sets, two utility decks, and my dice in there.

The final product will be amazing! Like the cards.

Dungeon World wins the BGG Best of the RPGs Tournament

Yeah this happened.

Design Update

We've been working on the card design and layout a bit more recently. One of the challenges with the art is making it fit on the cards where the cards have quite a variance in the amount of text they need to accommodate. On the left are the beta cards we've been using in our current prototype decks. On the right is the layout for the same card in the new style. What do you think?




The original cards attempted to imitate the Dungeon World book as closely as possible. I did not want to lose that when we rejigged the cards. However, with the new boxes the cards will be stored on their sides so having the name of the monster duplicated there makes indexing them a breeze. The other addition is a source designation at the bottom left of the card. In this case it says Dungeon World Core.

Here are a few more of the updated cards:

Oh, I did catch and fix the Canadian spelling of armour on the Apocalypse Dragon card. It is now back to Armor so as not to confuse anyone. These images might change again, and if we have our way they will be in full colour (or color for the non-Canucks).

On Set filming the Intro Video

The backdrop was moved from Richard's house to my own. We shot hours of video and hope to have a nice 10 minute promo piece for the site. I'll do some tutorial videos soon as well. Those will just have one actor so they should be much easier to put together.

A Couple Things and check this out....

Just so you know what's happening - I'm frantically finishing the last of my edits for my doctoral thesis. I've gotten my feedback and am able to submit this monster. So I've been a wee bit occupied. But that doesn't mean I haven't been working on the campaign.

Tonight we are going to re-shoot our video footage. We will have 4 cameras rolling and a friend of mine, Robert Sykes, is going to come help us get the footage we need. Maybe we are being perfectionists, but I feel that the video is very important.

Speaking of Robert - he is one of the local artisans (and fellow gamers) we've tagged to help us with a very special stretch goal. Our other artisan friend, Etienne Moreau, has spec'd out and designed a wicked awesome custom box for the encounter decks! These boxes will hold a set of everything and have room for some expansion. We are also thinking of a dice/pencil insert so the GM will be able to throw everything in a fancy box. Also the top will open to form a stand for holding cards. It will be beautiful and functional. The style he's proposed is campaign furniture (see image of chest similar to the design he's proposed). He'll be building a prototype before we launch. If we get enough demand we'll have both artisans working on this project (perhaps have two different designs even).

OK one more thing. There is a campaign you should check out. Non-player Character Cards. We love these card projects. I think this would make a great compliment to our Encounter Decks because who doesn't want a more flavour rich gaming experience? Check them out.

Hoping that Third Time is the Charm

Sorry for the radio silence. I've been running numbers, we had a design idea and I want to make sure the numbers jive before we go with it. We've also done two attempts at the video, Richard edited them up, and we need to reshoot it all again. The initial video is so crucial. We have some footage to use for talking about different features of our cards, but we really need a better introduction.

I'll update soon.