#8 The first cut is the deepest

I had my first tryout at the lazer yesterday and made some test-cuts. First I experimented with a 4mm MDF and a 1mm plywood.

First cuts.

What became apparent was that I had to change my design, so that the player could distinguish between cosmetic texture and important play-fields and lines.
The texture did not convey the desert-errosion-feeling I was hoping for and the depth of the cuts was not enough to cerate the 3D terrain I wanted.
I experimented with another pattern which I liked better, but making the whole playboard with an all-covering design would take a lot of time and money.

Some pattern experiments.

A possible way to proceed would be different layers like in this picture I took at the Zoo.

3D Map I saw at the local Zoo. Quite nice.

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#6: Card-Design v.1

Today I finally get to show off my new card-designs. They are only for testing, but still I put some effort into them, thinking about what information I wanted to display and trying to make them at least a little bit visually attractive. Anyhow, I probably spend way too much time on them. Still it looked nice to finally place them on the board. Sorting out the cards

#1 First Cardboard-Prototype

Here it is. My first cardboard-prototype of Radica. I even managed to play it a few times, although not for long, because I ran out of cards. I now know what I want to change though: Redesign the paths, so each ring has a unique character (fast-ring, etc.) Make the rings turn and stack them like terraces, to make the game more 3 dimensional and also to include a new mechanic of laying and blocking a path Build the whole game with the Laser-Cutter 1st cardboard-prototype

#3: Cards & Balancing

It is done! Thank god. For the past two weeks I have been juggling around with the card-metrics, balancing this, balancing and asking myself a million questions. And to be fair I have no idea if it will work. So let me break this down for you. I had a couple of objectives when designing this: Each ring has a number of these scavenging-sites: mechanical, special and danger The idea is to hide more valuable cards at higher rings. Risk-Reward. But also to mix a certain number of high-level cards into the ring-specific pile to give players an incentive to loot much and quick. Also the total number of cards should still be manageable. I'm now at 130 cards, which is ok for now. I know more after play-testing.

Making Radica

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