Olympus & Pantheon Delayed (Update 7-19-2020)

box front back olympus 2020 biggerThe release date for Crazier Eights: Olympus, and Crazier Eights: Pantheon will have to be delayed, and I don’t know what the release date will be. On May 4th I asked the printing company, DoFine Games, if I will have to delay the release date, and they didn’t answer. They earlier told me the games would be printed and sent out by May 17th, and that is clearly not happening at this point.

My most optimistic estimate is July 24th. August 7th is realistic, but I have to get an estimate from the printing company. If the printing company is too busy to respond to my questions, they might have a backlog they are getting through.

Update: The release date is now August 14th, 2020.

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Omniscience Promo Card

omniscience promoThis offer has ended.

There’s an Omniscience promo card offer starting April 14th. If you buy two or more Crazier Eights games from our web store (here), you will get a bonus Omniscience promo card. This is a limited time offer and it will have to end if we run out of stock. It’s limited to one Omniscience promo card per customer.

All of our games can be found at the online Recoculous Game Shop.

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Rejected Shahrzad Cards

rejected shahrzad cards 2Part of the development process through play testing requires cards or card abilities to be changed or replaced. This can be because of the card ability in isolation or because of a concern for the overall balance of the game as a whole. The most interesting changes are when the entire concept of a card is replaced with an entirely different concept. Let’s take a look at some examples of that.

All the cards I will list here are good enough cards, and they were rejected mainly just to make room for cards that seemed more important for one reason or another.

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