Volley Brawl

Devlog

• Making Space to avoid mistakes in Card placement
  May 10, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#game design

  Something that occurs a few times in playtesting was the confusion and mixing up of team cohesion cards with the serve/volley card and to that end It occurred to me I could use the A3/A4 scale of the... Continue reading

  
• Looping over the loop and going over it again and again
  May 10, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#game design, #volleybrawl, #game loop

  The game involves a back and forth of sending a ball and moving the miniatures and attempting to explain this process in such a way that it is both succinct and which creates both a sense of control f... Continue reading

  
• Editing over and over and over again
  May 05, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#rules, #editing, #game design

  The Editingator Its one thing to "have an idea" quite something else to write down the steps to recreating it. After that how do you go about refining what you have said so that when another person re... Continue reading

  
• Less is always more - reducing the gameloop
  April 26, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#design, #volleybrawl

  The larger part of my own confusion when deciding on how to ensure that hand refreshes were not unfairly benefiting one side over another has meant I have spent a lot of time thinking about the proble... Continue reading

  
• Some great feedback .. Time to thrift down an idea
  April 24, 2025 by I am Nik Butler

  I have my first real bit of feedback about the rules, I wont include the lovely stuff that was said lets look at what I need to consider; their comments were as they read form start to finish and this... Continue reading
• Early Draft VolleyBrawl . A Google Doc to delight
  April 23, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#discussion, #design

  Every one has their first time , and I am no exception. Decades of playing games and creating silly house rules It feels like maybe its time I throw my hat in the ring and try my own ideas out for an... Continue reading