.. for Cuzco. We had two great playtests that confirmed our thoughts that the game is really getting close to being ready. There was only one slight change to the rules. All the other changes were very minor graphical corrections and so on. Both games were quite tight until the very last actions. All the players enjoyed the game. The feedback was that it is a unique game that plays intuitively.

I guess now is the time to concentrate on the rule book. Right now it is just a word document and I doubt anyone would be able to play the game right by just reading them! It is a lot of work and usually the last thing designers are excited to do. At least it has been like that for us. But now that everything else is looking so good, we might as well take the time and figure the rule book out as well! Wish us good luck..

Yep, we got everything ready for Ropecon. I managed to stumble across my main printer guy and he was nice enough to print everything at the spot. The weekend will be exciting time for Cuzco: It has never been so well balanced and I’m hoping that this event will show it. I will report back next week.

Which one would you like to have first?

The bad? Okay, you got it. Our normal printing place was not open, so we were not able to get our new and tweaked game material printed! We still managed to playtest, but we had to use paper buildings and so on.

Let’s move on to the good. The game rocked! It was awesome. Pretty much all the changes were working amazingly well and we had a fun and tight game (which I managed to win ;)). The only thing that was unbalanced badly was the number of secret maps in the exploring deck. We decided to take half of them away and I think that should fix it.

Now the question still remains.. will we get the new stuff printed for Ropecon? I certainly hope so. I have a backup printer that I’m currently negotiating, so we haven’t lost all hope. Wish us luck and if you happen to be at Ropecon, might as well come and try Cuzco!

.. sort of. There is the annual roleplaying event Ropecon and we will be playtesting Cuzco there for the third year in the row! It has changed tremendously in between and I’m beginning to think this is the last playtesting Ropecon for Cuzco. Maybe next year it will be played by many :)

We have been busy to think over the last changes and hopefully we have the changes ready for Ropecon. We hope to be able to test it twice before the event, but we’ll see. Time is suddenly become a really scant resource.