I will be going to conventions and game stores to help promote Crazier Eights: Camelot and give people a chance to try it out before the Kickstarter campaign.
The first events were at Pacificon Game Expo in Santa Clara, CA between September 2-5, 2016. I have not had my events confirmed with them yet, but I am hoping to have events with the following days and times: Continue reading
I have new rules cards for Crazier Eights: Camelot. I have some new clarifications, such as that you play and discard cards from your hand. Continue reading
My house burned down and other personal events occurred, so I decided I will delay the starting date for the Kickstarter Campaign for Camelot. I will plan on launching the campaign this June October, but it is hard to say for sure at this point. The Kickstarter campaign is a campaign to fund the game. If successful, people who contribute money are given rewards (copies of the game). Continue reading
I had copies of Crazier Eights: Camelot prototypes and prototypes of a couple expansions to give to playtesters and reviewers, but I wanted to order some cards that were updated. I got them, but I was too busy to send them out to more than one person. Then my house burned down Tuesday night. I lost everything except some copies of the original Crazier Eights game I had published that were either in my car or at a storage location. You can still buy copies of Crazier Eights on this website here. Continue reading
One of the questions is what I did wrong for the Second Edition Kickstarter, which is highly related to the question about what will be improved when I decide to try again and re-launch. There will be more time to investigate what else can be improved, so this is just about what I know about at this point in time. In particular:
I will post here the dates and locations of the demos I will have at various places. If you are in the Santa Clara/San Jose/Santa Cruz area in California, you can meet me and try out Crazier Eights: Second Edition (as well as the expansions and first edition).
Address
Santa Clara Marriott Hotel
2700 Mission College Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Events:
Address
1650 Coleman Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95050
He recommends it as a family game or gateway game in particular.
Take a look at it here. If you want the Crazier Eights: Second Edition Kickstarter campaign to succeed, please let people know about it.
I wrote the comprehensive rules for Crazier Eights at one point, but it is a bit too long and overwhelming to include with every copy of the game, and the main idea of the game is supposed to be very simple. Packing every single possible clarification into the rules is also probably unnecessary, but I would like to make sure the rules can determine everything that happens in a satisfying way for both very casual players and those who want to know the game in a very in-depth way. I think the current version of the rules document I just finished does that for the Second Edition of Crazier Eights. You can take a look at it here, and let me know what you think.
I like the option for playing on teams. Two or people can each be on a team, and it is encouraged for each team to have the same number of people. Their teammates are allies rather than opponents. If anyone wins in a team, then the team wins. If anyone loses on a team, the team loses. I still haven’t tested out this idea as much as I would like. One deck of cards is enough for four people (two teams of two people each). Two decks of cards is enough for eight people (four teams of two or two teams of four).
Additionally, cooperation can speed the game up, and that is doubly so if you share turns with all your teammates. If everyone on a team can play and discard during the same turn, that can also save time. Each teammate draws cards during their draw phase together, going clockwise. The players on a team can sit next to one another, and whoever is on the right hand side actually draws first, even though they all do it at roughly the same time. (The same issue can occur when a card makes multiple players draw cards at the same time. They will actually draw cards going clockwise.)
The main rules issue that sharing a turn on a team can present is what to do if one or more players on a team has to skip their next turn or gets an extra turn. If there are people on the team who don’t have to skip their turn, those players still take a turn. Only players on a team who have to skip their turn will skip their turn. Moreover, if anyone on a team gets an extra turn, only that player will get an extra turn. Continue reading
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