Thanks to Rebecca who finally managed to get in contact with Rollem, whom I originally contacted for the prototype cards to be printed and whom we met at Birmingham Games […]
Packaging Prototype
Been working on what I think is VERY close to my ideal product packaging. I still haven’t decided on a closure mechanism, but am favouring an elastic wrap as I’ve […]
2nd Publisher & Environmental Goodness
Rollem Ltd haven’t got back to me despite sending a 2nd enquiry direct to the director I spoke to at the NEC UK Games Expo at the end of July, […]
Pt5 – First Play Testing
By now it’s nearly Christmas 2020 and I have a pack of cards that looks OK and a box to put them in. Time for a bit of play testing […]
Pt4 – Can’t play test without rules!
So I’ve play tested myself and am enjoying it, “Scrabble® with cards” doesn’t do it justice, even if it’s a neat tag line. It’s not Scrabble® because you don’t have […]
Pt3 – Initial Design Ideas
So I have the cards and they seem to work, whether anybody wants to play is a different matter just now, they certainly don’t wanna play with the crap I […]
Pt2 – “Get ready for a major re-model fellas, we’re back in hardware mode”
Whilst waiting for the cards to arrive on Monday I decided to write a program that would randomly select digrams from the list I’d created, assigning each letter to one […]
Pt1 – “I think I’ve invented a game!”
Those were the words I said when I woke up Sunday morning, 6th December 2020. “It’s like rummy but with letters on cards,… Word Rummy”,… this is the start of […]
Print ready prototype!
So after the UK Games Expo I made a priority list of jobs to do and after speaking to Stuart Murphy the MD at Rollem (https://rollem.com) printing and print finishing […]
UK Games Expo 2021
We were at the UK Games Expo at the Birmingham NEC last weekend for some seminars and some play testing. I’d applied to get a slot on the Publisher-Designer Speed-dating, […]