{"id":186,"date":"2020-10-06T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:07:51","slug":"massive-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/186\/massive-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the span of slightly more than one week, <em>Villanostra<\/em> has gone from this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old.png 1024w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Old-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/New.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/New.png 1024w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/New-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/New-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By focusing on the most important aspects of the game&#8211;voting on buildings and influencing workers to build them&#8211;I dramatically reduced the ruleset, play time, and component count. A three-player test session went from being unfinishable in two hours to completing in 45 minutes (including time for teaching rules and post-game analysis). Ideas from playtesters led to combining the voting and influence tokens, which led to each councilor having distinct moral-based abilities, which also resolved issues with ally selection. The whole game feels more smooth and elegant. Playtesters were enthusiastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next step: Add mechanisms that threaten the village as a whole. I now have some confidence that I can do so without making the game too heavy for the players I want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to all my <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/protospiel.online\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protospiel Online<\/a> playtesters for your time, thoughts, and encouragement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/allbutpublished.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pitch Project<\/a> for putting me through the sell sheet process, which helped me clarify and focus upon the core of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the span of slightly more than one week, Villanostra has gone from this: To this: By focusing on the most important aspects of the game&#8211;voting on buildings and influencing workers to build them&#8211;I dramatically reduced the ruleset, play time, and component count. A three-player test session went from being unfinishable in two hours to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-villanostra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}