I'm not done, just procrastinating

I've been working on this game since Jan of 2015, and 2016 is almost over. I have the first 155 cards done and I'm working on the 2nd set now, and yet, I still haven't made the game live. I have reworked art, made a game mat, and have all I need to kick things off, but I haven't.

I've done other posts about fear and how it can paralyze, and how it does paralyze me, but now I'm back to a stand still and I'm the cause. I'll keep going, and developing the game, because I truly enjoy the game and process, but I may be the only person to play it, and I'm not ok with that...

Revamping a few cards

I've decided that some of my older cards are a little... well, for lack of a better work, crappy looking. I did them to the best of my ability, at the time, but I feel like they were ill conceived. I understood what I was going for, but I just wasn't capable of achieving the overall look I wanted.It has been over a year since I first set out to make these cards, and, initially, I wanted to just create the game, but now I have the chance to add some things that'll make it look better than it did, I'm going to take it.

Original art


Here is what the first card looked like, and did.

Updated art

and here is the updated art and card's abilities.

I think it's a great improvement over it's predecessor, but that could just be me. What do y'all think?

Play testing

I have had the cards for about 2 weeks now, and, as I try to finalize the rules, i have learned 3 things.

Firstly, it's hard to play test a game when my wife, family, and friend don't like, or play TCGs. I have literally asked all of them, and the 1 person that was supposed to help isn't responding to my text messages.

Next, there are several things I need to correct with how certain cards work. They sounded great on paper, but, now that I have them, I have to amend them so they aren't underpowered. Crazy, I didn't think I'd use that term for my legendaries.

And, finally, I really am excited about the game! I can't wait to see people playing it. With Greenhorns Mining I get to see those that purchased the game, and it makes me so proud, but I have dreamt of my TCG for 10 years, and now to have it realized is surreal.

If you want to see the unboxing hit the link below, and I'll start getting some 'how to play' videos up soonish.
https://youtu.be/DBuKIwDAhLY

The game is in!

The cards for the TCG are here. I'm so excited. I'm working on building 2 decks now to play with and record.

Artistic blockers

I'm so thankful I got much of my work done before this week. Aside from normal family drama, in just this year, we had 2 deaths in the family, my mom was checking to see if she had cancer, thankfully was just a benign tumor, septic tank collapsed, and roof leaked so bad some of the ceiling broke into the house and I used a lot of it as reasons to stop developing Heroes Defense.

I had to be intentional about being artistic.  There were days I was so emotionally drained I didn't when want to look at a pencil, but I set aside time where I would force myself to do something artistic; be it writing or drawing I still didn't move until I did something. This really helped me get out of my dry-spell and find an oasis of creativity.

6 months ago, if you had asked if I was going to finish the game, I would have said, "no," or "probably not." I even considered decreasing the card count, but in my mind, that wasn't an option. All 155 cards are done except for 1, and that's soon to come for the Kickstart-er.

Here we go

I know, it has been a long time since I last posted anything on here. I have been discouraged, encouraged, discouraged, and eager time and time again. If you have followed me for any length of time, you'll know that I do well at posting, and then get so side tracked that I completely forget.

This is what has happened. I have not stopped working on the game, but I have been so busy with other things posting here and on my other accounts don't really come to mind, just being honest.

Well...



I've done it!

I have finished nearly all of the game, and I am so excited! Now, when I say nearly all of it, I mean that the only thing left to do is to play test it, clean up the rules and we have finished! I'm so thrilled. I will post a video of me getting the cards and opening them. It's been a long year, but I am ready to do this.

Just a bit longer...

I can't believe it's already June! I'm coming up to the deadline for the release of Hero's Defense. What sucks is that because of certain rights, I have to change a few things with my cards. It's my fault for not checking before I began the alpha testing, but oh well. You live and you learn, and then you check copyrights.

No card today, I am going to make the changes and once I start getting them done I'll get to posting cards again. Hopefully it doesn't delay me too much, but it might change the number of cards at release.