{"id":47,"date":"2020-08-17T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2020-08-17T07:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:45:54","slug":"playtest-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/47\/playtest-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Playtest Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1024x595.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1024x595.png 1024w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1536x893.png 1536w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-1200x698.png 1200w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled.png 1858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s playtest of <em>Villanostra<\/em> went pretty well. We didn&#8217;t get as far as testing any of the new facility abilities, but the playtesters were engaged and gave me interesting ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Score all undamaged facilities each year, whether they employ a villager or not. Bonus points for matching values on employed villagers.<\/li><li>Players called them &#8220;buildings&#8221; instead of &#8220;facilities&#8221;. While they are not all technically &#8220;buildings&#8221;, it&#8217;s a more familiar term and I should use it instead.<\/li><li>Dot voting for project selection worked great. Only downside is that councilors couldn&#8217;t earn a coin by not proposing a project, so the economy is tighter. I&#8217;ll leave it as-is for a few more playtests to see if it&#8217;s <em>too<\/em> tight.<\/li><li>Councilors who aren&#8217;t in play are still thematically present: they could add their influence by some easily-processed rules to help get stuff built.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering my own situation, it also seemed to me that unemployed villagers should gain stress. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stress and corruption mechanisms already seem to work pretty well. End of year villager processing is a little confusing and slow, so I think streamlining that should be my focus to prep for next playtest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday&#8217;s playtest of Villanostra went pretty well. We didn&#8217;t get as far as testing any of the new facility abilities, but the playtesters were engaged and gave me interesting ideas. Score all undamaged facilities each year, whether they employ a villager or not. Bonus points for matching values on employed villagers. Players called them &#8220;buildings&#8221; [&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-47","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\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}