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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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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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Previews Tempest

First of the Gods

26 February 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Card Art, Deity, Design, Egyptian, Instagram, Pui Che

Art assets are coming along well for Tempest: Shards of the Gods. Indeed, the Egyptian cards are 100% commissioned and 88%

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A Tempest in 2016

5 January 201616 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Convention, Dee McLoughlin, Design, Egyptian, Greek, Kickstarter, Penny Arcade, Warrick Wong

Happy New Years, Tempest followers! I hope 2015 brought you all much joy and very few struggles. The Year Behind: 2015 One year

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Tempest: How to Play

2 December 201516 January 2017 FoxTaleGames Cody Shay, Gameplay, India-Lee Crews, Warrick Wong

It was spring again. Birds chittered unhelpfully as they flapped from tree to tree, unsettling blossoms that fell like a

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