https://quickchargegames.com/tags/design/ Recent content in design on QuickCharge Games Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Copyright © 2012-2016 QuickCharge Games, All Rights Reserved Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-new-kind-board-game/ Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-new-kind-board-game/ Two of the heroes available in Steel Dragons What is Steel Dragons? Steel Dragons is a new kind of scenario-based adventure board game for up to 12 players. In the game, the players explore broken lands, fight dangerous creatures, and overcome perilous challenges for the sake of fortune and honor. Depending on the scenario, the players must compete, cooperate, or secretly betray each other in order to win the game. https://quickchargegames.com/news/origin-feudal-japan-steampunk/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/origin-feudal-japan-steampunk/ Image from Library of Congress When I was first inspired to create a new kind of board game, I was thinking of the general category of “adventure board game.” In current terms, that means something like Talisman or Mage Knight. Standard AD&D setting: Wizards, Fighters, Thieves, and a generally Medieval Europe backdrop, but otherwise a slew of concepts borrowed from the Lord of the Rings. My original inspiration for a computerized RPG came from a really old Avalon Hill game called Magic Realm, in the exact same generic setting, with elves, dwarves, orcs, and the rest. https://quickchargegames.com/news/everybody-all-at-once/ Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/everybody-all-at-once/ Photo by Trupastilla As a game designer, I am totally digging Steel Dragons' linked-screen technology. By using a central tablet as the board, and letting the players use their own phones (or tablets, or laptops, or whatever) as their own personal play-spaces, you can do things that don’t always work so well with physical board games – like simultaneous turns. The idea of simultaneous turns is fantastic: Players don’t take their turns in order, but all go at the same time! https://quickchargegames.com/news/putting-steel-in-steel-dragons/ Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/putting-steel-in-steel-dragons/ By The Puzzler Several elements set the steampunk world of Steel Dragons apart from both historical feudal Japan and other steampunk settings. One of the most important of these elements is the inclusion of the substance known as “smart steel.” Smart steel is a metal that can be “programmed” to take on any shape. In its natural form, it’s a liquid metal that looks and acts similar to mercury. https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-japanese-not-japan/ Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-japanese-not-japan/ It’s no secret that one of the original inspirations for Steel Dragons was Magic Realm, one of the first examples of a deep, complex fantasy adventure board game. When we started kicking around ideas for our own game, there was never any question that its theme would likewise be some flavor of fantasy. But the more we thought about it, the more we realized that worlds “sort of like Europe but with magic” have been done to death, dug up, reanimated, and done to death again. https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-gameplay-style/ Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/steel-dragons-gameplay-style/ Photo by Gobind Khalsa If you’ve read the product announcement, you probably have a pretty good idea of how a game of Steel Dragons plays. After all, it’s a cooperative adventure board game with heroes, monsters, and a quest for loot… and to save the world, of course. It would be fair to say you’ve seen other board games that hit a lot of these same notes (cough Arkham Horror), but I assure you that you’ve never seen anything quite like this. https://quickchargegames.com/news/steampunk-feudal-japan-steel-dragons/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/steampunk-feudal-japan-steel-dragons/ Blake Henriksen's Riflewoman art for Steel Dragons The Game Steel Dragons is a cooperative adventure digital board game in which one to four players take on the roles of heroes in a mythical land of steampunk samurai. To protect their homeland and secure riches for themselves, the players explore the broken lands, fight dangerous creatures, and work together to defeat the challenges the game throws at them. The World Steel Dragons is set in the steampunk feudal Japanese world of Shikaku, where airships traverse the haunted ruins of an ancient empire, mechanics grease the gears of the mighty machines, and mysterious shapers bend steel with the power of their minds. https://quickchargegames.com/news/zero-download-multidevice-link-play/ Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/zero-download-multidevice-link-play/ Image by Tim Mensch I play board games with friends a few times a month. Since my time at these game nights is limited, I would like to dive right in and play, but set-up and clean-up of games takes a lot of time. Waiting for other players takes a lot of time. General upkeep takes a lot of time. That’s why I like tablet board games. They handle the busywork and save a lot of time. https://quickchargegames.com/news/increasing-and-decreasing-complexity/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/increasing-and-decreasing-complexity/ Image by timlewisnm As I mentioned in a recent blog post, I like complicated games, especially the recent trend of designer board games. The kind of board game that I like to play tends to have great art, piles of tokens and/or cards, and sometimes a complicated board. Depending on the game, the set-up can take 15 minutes or more. But the worst part is the 10-or-more-page rule book that you have to read before you start to play. https://quickchargegames.com/news/new-site-announcement/ Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://quickchargegames.com/news/new-site-announcement/ Welcome to the new QuickCharge Games site! Changes here are more than skin deep. We’ve simplified the layout, but more importantly, now you will be able to read it more easily on a cell phone. It’s also much faster than it was before, so you’ll be able to get your QuickCharge news much more…quickly. With this update we’re finally hosted on our quickchargegames.com domain. Yes, it took us long enough. Instead of doing web work we’ve been working on games.