Chess The Gathering: Design Part 2

Continuing from Part 1, Holly and I go over how we designed "Chess the Gathering", a board game mash up of Magic, Chess, and other geeky concepts. In this installment we go over spells that modify creatures with new abilities, and murdering twins.

This series is in response to questions about our "paper prototype" video

Chess The Gathering: Design Part 1

So after our paper prototype video on "Chess the Gathering" we got a lot of people asking us how the game plays. Then someone suggested we talk about the design process and how the game evolved. I'm not one to pass up on stealing a good idea, so here's part one of me yammering on about how the game came about. Holly on camera.... I should really put the prettier face in front of the camera, I'm new at this.

Chess the Gathering? (A Paper Prototype)

I love me some board games and as such I created a simple paper prototype of one that mixed elements from Chess and Magic the Gathering. However, as we played it more it became clear we needed to improve the paper prototype. Take a look at Holly and I making using what we could to make the game play smoother: Zombies, glue, Legos, and paint of course :)

Tim & Holly Get a Channel

OK, so it's not a major network, but just something we've thrown up on our Youtube channel. Basically Holly and I always want to write/talk games but never have time. Enter our flip camera. This is us discovering that there are "games" on Direct TV. We'll try to shoot more as a regular thing. Maybe I'll even grab footage directly from the TV so Holly doesn't have to keep her hand steady...

Beta Update #4 (+ High Score Contest details)

Check out the final Beta update video! We launch August 1st, 2012 on Steam, Desura, and Stand-alone from our website!! See below for details on the High Score Contest...



High Score Contest
UPDATE: Due to problems with the update, we're extending the contest deadline to Tuesday July 24th (Midnight)!

Get the Highest score on the Steam leaderboards by MIDNIGHT (PT) Sunday August 22nd to win. If you can, we'd love to see your play thru's: please send links to videos to info@misfitsattic.com with the subject "High Score Contest". Below are the levels and rules, good luck!

Single Player:

• 2.05
• 3.08
• 4.10
• 5.04

Cooperative:

• 3.05
• 4.06

Rules:

1. You can only win one slot, so if you win for multiple levels you have to choose (if you do SP & MP then you can win twice, cuz in MP you're part of a team)
2. The name you use in the final game has to be approved by us of course. You know what we'll say no to.

Beta Update #3

Steam is here! In this update we show some new Hydrator levels, Steam integration, and panhandling infants. Please spread the word, we're getting close to launch :)

 

Beta Update #2

New Beta Update Video! Featuring everything from 'Hall & Oats' to me playing with myself... multiplayer of course. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and spread the word!

 

Beta Update #1

I'm hoping to update the Beta regularly for everyone that's pre-ordered. Rather than boring you with bullet lists I thought I'd make a video of the updates and throw in everything from rotary phones to David Hasselhoff. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and spread the word!