Author: FoxTaleGames

Designer Diary Uncategorized 

Prototyping 101

23 January 201727 September 2018 FoxTaleGames Convention, Design, Designer, dice, Lucidity, playtest, print-and-play, Tabletopia

We go through a lot of game ideas here, which means we do a lot of prototyping. One of the

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Designer Diary Lucidity Tempest 

Bright Dreams for 2017

16 January 201716 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Convention, Designer, dice, Facebook, India-Lee Crews, Instagram, Kickstarter, Lucidity, Tabletopia

Happy New Years, and thank you once again for everything last year! I hope that 2016 brought you fewer struggles

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Lucidity Rules 

Play Darkly Dreaming Free!

14 December 201614 December 2016 FoxTaleGames dice, Facebook, Gameplay, Lucidity, print-and-play, Tabletopia

Good news! We just added Darkly Dreaming to Tabletopia (an online virtual tabletop program). What does that mean for you?

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Designer Diary Lucidity Rules 

Darkly Dreaming: Deckbuilder to Dice Roller

8 December 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Background, Design, dice, Gameplay, Lucidity, print-and-play

Tamara trembled, hiding beneath her desk and holding her knees to her chest. She could hear the heavy breathing of

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Designer Diary Tempest 

Tempest at PAX Aus 2016

1 November 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Convention, Designer, Egyptian, Gameplay, Kickstarter, Norse, Penny Arcade, print-and-play, Pui Che

Wow, I can’t believe it’s almost been an entire year since the last PAX Australia (Penny Arcade Expo). That time

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Designer Diary Tempest 

5 Things I’ve Learned from Art Direction

27 September 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Card Art, Dee McLoughlin, Design, Egyptian, Greek, India-Lee Crews, Japanese, Norse, Pui Che

Easily the most fun that I have had in creating Tempest: Shards of the Gods has been commissioning illustrations for

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Designer Diary Rules Tempest 

Experimenting with Research

31 August 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Card Art, Deity, Design, Gameplay, India-Lee Crews, Norse, Shard, Tale, Tales

In a previous post, I mentioned that I was experimenting with how adding cards to your deck (“researching”) would work in

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Designer Diary 

Research: Focused or General?

16 August 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Designer, Gameplay, Norse, Tales

One of the key concepts of Tempest is that everybody begins the game with the same resources and builds their deck during

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Designer Diary Interview 

Meet the Artist: India-Lee Crews

11 July 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Card Art, Daeva, Designer, India-Lee Crews, Pui Che, Ruan Jia

Over the last year, over half of the 105 illustrations required for Tempest: Shards of the Gods have been completed. Of

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Designer Diary Tempest 

Celebrating One Year!

3 July 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Background, Card Art, Dee McLoughlin, Designer, Facebook, India-Lee Crews, Pui Che

It was one year ago (3 July 2015) that Fox Tale Games was created and I began in earnest to

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