Volley Brawl

Devlog

• Getting the Glenn Hug - Correcting Errors and Spollings
  June 05, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#rules, #gamedesign

  Getting feedback on your game design can be hard on the soul; getting corrections to your rule book because your ability to spot errors is worse than 1 page spread in the Guardian is a whole other lev... Continue reading
• One Day at Playtest and the worlds your Haggis
  June 02, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#rules, #game design

  A Weekend Passes and with it much feedback The awesome team at [Playtest UK[ http://www.playtest.co.uk/) hosted SixGamesInATrenchCoat at this years UKGE for the first real crunch time of VolleyBrawl... Continue reading

  
• Layout Swap About and the Ins and Outs of that
  May 27, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#layout, #game design .

  Rewording a Round and a Rally This has come up a few times in playtesting , defining what makes for a Round and what makes for a rally. In this version ( 21 ) I think we now resolved that it means to... Continue reading
• New Version more errata some obvservations
  May 26, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#rules, #game design

  Over the course of a couple of playtests I noticed a few issues. Version Numbers Technically this is my 19th edit of the core book; the Game has been in development for a few months going through iter... Continue reading
• Its a Kind of Magic ..
  May 23, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#game design, #magic

  I have been holding this page back , for no other reason than its not really had a chance to be tested in play and I feel it can create a slow down in how players assemble their hands. However the Mag... Continue reading
• Editing and tweaking rules around passing between the team
  May 21, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#rules, #editing

  I circle this particular set of rules quite a bit since it is fundemental to the aspect of how the Haggis can move between team players and how and when the Serve/Pass card is revealed and played duri... Continue reading
• Learning Curves .. literally
  May 20, 2025 by I am Nik Butler#gamedesign, #scribus, #rules

  Today marks the moment I move away from the Google Doc and push up a PDF file which will be edited and added to over as the game grows up. The Rules are still in full on playtest / feedback mode. This... Continue reading

  
• 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