Concept Items

Playtesting has been going well. Figuring out which mechanics work, which don't and coming up with new weapons and items on the fly. Here are a bunch of sketch designs for some weapons, if I could get some feedback about which work and which don't, that'd be really helpful. I know which ones are my favourite, but I'd like some feedback about which of the different items look best.




In other news. I have a mua-hassive backlog of games to play and TV to watch, not only having a ton of work to get on with. It's all piling up!!

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Incoming Transmission

Hello? Hello? Damn, this blog's dusty. Ok Christmas was great New Years was great blah blah I'm stressed about the course and filled with a foreboding sense of dread.

BUT.

I've finished up a bunch of rough cards and designs for Research Outpost: Hades and I'm hoping to get a game going this Thursday, mainly to test out the mechanics. It should be fun, there'll be a lot of changing rules up on the fly to see what works and what doesn't. I'm going to be concentrating on the core gameplay, so there won't be anything like the underwater areas or having to worry about environments without any atmosphere. It could be fun, it could be a disaster! Either way, it'll be helpful to get some information about the game as it's being played. Oh golly gosh this is exciting!!

In other news: I've been playing games that nobody bought recently. Surprise surprise, both NieR, Rock Band 3 and Bayonetta are really good fun. Wonderful art direction and gameplay that you can sink your teeth into. NieR feels like a cross between Kingdom Hearts and a bullet hell shooter at times, some of the patterns of magic you have to dodge from the bosses feel very DoDonPach-ey.

See what I did there?

Heh.

For a thousand years on this prison moon