Furiae Boardgame - Entry II

Since I've found out I get a fair share of visitors from Linda Bergkvist site, where she links to my blog from her Ungentle, Gentle picture that shows a typical Skinflayer Dryad, and because Thord D Hedengren asked about it, I think it's not more than right I give you guys some heads up on the boardgame project.

I wish I had some fancy new pictures to show, like I did in the first post about the game, but I'd rather not share too much of the material I have at the moment. Driving up unnecessary hype or showing material that might change considerably for the end product seems improper and unfair to both me and you. Maybe I'll show off something in future updates when we have more stuff finalised and we are through the initial prototype phase. Because that's where we are now.

The map for example is, although accurate, just a roughly drawn variant and the final map will of course be much more detailed and fancy. But in it's current state it works splendid for testing purposes. It just need a few minor changes, as to working out the perfect balance between strategic considerations and storyline and worlddesign considerations. It's all more or less in it's final stage.

The rules and mechanics are finished more or less, and just need some playtesting, but I feel confident that they are very balanced and works splendidly in conjunction with the storyline. So I have finally moved on to building the prototype. Which means trying to find some means of printing out the map, god-tokens and other colorcoded stuff somehow, in a proper size. Which is a bit of a pain in the ass since I don't have access to a printer currently. However it seems we have now worked out a perfect solution there anyway, so it'll be done within the week. The rest is just a matter of gluing white paper on to generic game cards with different colored backs, so to separate the five different card types used in the game (3 spell type variants, monsters and magic items).

A lot of you are probably wondering how much of Lindas art will be present in the game since it circulates around her world. While I am doing most of the layout, all art is made by her really. The map, the magical items, the creatures and characters, all will be based on her visions and painted by her. For some stuff we will reuse known and popular paintings already done, either details or the whole images. But for some we will use new original paintings made by Linda, such as those Skinflayer Dryads in the Ungentle, Gentle picture which was made public just to give you people an idea as of what you can expect from us.

Also, additionally I might add I am actually working on another boardgame concept, which I will pursue as soon as we get this one finished. And we're thinking about eventually doing a card game for Lindas world too, but that's just loose ideas at the moment. It all depends on how well things go with this game.

And that's all for now. I'll keep you updated with the progress.