August 2024 in Review

Here’s a quick review of August, 2024.

MONSTROSITY is finished, and both it AND its expansion are ready to go!!!

The Crowd Sale for it will be launching September 2nd, and it’ll only be available at the discounted price for a couple of weeks, so click that “Remind Me” button and be ready for some monstrous awesomeness!

If you’re not familiar with what a Crowd Sale is on The Game Crafter, then you’re in for a treat. Normally, the game will retail for $19.99, but I gave it a great starting discount. Then, the more copies sold, the greater that discount will become. It doesn’t matter what price point you decide to buy it at, you won’t be charged until the sale ends, and the amount you’ll be charged will be the final discounted price!

It would mean the world to me if you could help spread the word and share this link: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/monstrosity

The quicker the game sells, the quicker the discount will grow, and the better the discount is, the more inclined people will be to get themselves a copy. It’s not about the money (heck, the game is HEAVILY discounted). It’s about getting my games out into the world so that I can one day (finger’s crossed!) be a recognized designer in the board game world!!!

BRUTAL BEATDOWN

Next up is BRUTAL BEATDOWN. As mentioned in my previous post, Brutal Beatdown is going to be a huge project for me. It’s going to be nearly a dozen standalone games that are all mix-and-matchable, so getting the mechanics right, is highly important. The plan is for it to have 5 modes of play. Training mode, Sparring mode (tentative title), Beatdown mode, Brutal mode, and Story mode.

As of now, my attention on Sparring mode, and I’m playtesting some pretty neat changes at the moment. I need to have it ready for Stonemaier Games Designer Day on September 22, 2024, when I have a 2:30 hour window scheduled to showcase and playtest it. Here’s a look at it on Tabletop Simulator.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Finish the instructions for Brutal Beatdown, illustrate some more fighters, and tighten the Kickstarter plans.

Resume progress on Evilution.