This 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.
We are working at home to fulfill orders. Continue reading
We have developed a new website for Recoculous, the company that published the Crazier Eights games.
The game designer for Crazier Eights, James Gray, has written a blog post there about the history of games he has designed over the years. Go here to take a look.
His website, Fantasy Cards, also has information about many games he has designed.
Part 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.
The characters found in Crazier Eights: Shahrzad are based on the stories from the One Thousand & One Nights, and most of them are characters from stories as told by Shahrzad. It is thought that these stories are mostly taken from folklore and legends from Persia, Arabia, India, Egypt, and other places around those areas. Continue reading
Dr. Christopher W. Smithmyer wrote a detailed review for Crazier Eights: One Thousand & One Nights, and Crazier Eights: Shahrzad.
Go here to take a look.
We have a new and improved web store at https://recoculousshop.square.site/
There are three different promo cards being given out for current sales, and each comes with a different game.
The final versions of the games need to be ready for the printing process, so we continued to find last minute improvements. There were improvements made a result of some last minute brainstorming, play testing, and editing. Many of the updates are to improve the wording, and some of the updates were a bit more significant.
The spoilers for Crazier Eights: Olympus & Crazier Eights: Pantheon were both updated to show the improvements. These are image galleries that show you every card in the games. Take a look using these links:
Thank you to everyone who made the Crazier Eights: Olympus Kickstarter a success. I am very happy about how it went. We got over $3,500 of funding with 100 backers.
There will be no late pledges. The pre-orders for Crazier Eights: Olympus will be up around May 2020.
The official release date is July 31, 2020. Continue reading
Crazier Eights: Pantheon is good because it has been play tested and updated for almost three years.
You can see the (almost) final version of all the cards here.
There is a history behind the game. It evolved through years of play testing and updates. Some cards were replaced and some card abilities were changed.
Let’s take a look at some of these changes. Continue reading
Crazier Eights: Olympus is good because it has been play tested and updated for almost four years.
You can see the (almost) final version of all the cards here.
Many updates required that cards either get replaced or that their abilities be changed.
A look at some of the rejected cards can give you a glimpse into the history of the game development process.
Let’s take a look at some of these changes.
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