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GDJ – Breakdown of the design process in Dune: House Secrets, part 2

5 listopada, 2021 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

In the previous article, I discussed most physical components of Dune: House Secrets and what their purpose was in the game, and how they helped immerse players in the story. Today we continue the breakdown of the design process – I’ll discuss one deck and the website.

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One of the most famous components in Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, were photos. A square-shaped deck of cards with portraits of every non-player character in the story. As the game progresses and players meet these witnesses, suspects, and consultants, the photos land on the wall creating the beautiful, insane mind map of correlations and interactions between story characters. Players are detectives. They must find the murderer. The photos and mind map does the purpose.

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You don’t know it yet.

6 sierpnia, 2021 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

It was 2001 when everything changed. My parents, who never were very enthusiastic about my passion for fantasy and science fiction literature, suddenly started talking about Gimli and Legolas. Suddenly they knew who Gandalf was. Suddenly they were passionate about Nazguls. Suddenly they needed answers and were asking me about the Gondor, Saruman, and what happens to Merry and Pippin next.

Peter Jackson’s movie made the Lord of the Rings novel a worldwide phenomenon.

Today everyone, your aunt, your brother, your mother-in-law, literally everybody knows words like a hobbit, shire, Gollum. Everyone discovered this fantastic story. The story we geeks already knew for years.

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Life of a rebel — Dune: House Secrets Dev Diary

21 lipca, 2021 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

Dune: House Secrets is an adventure game that takes place on Arrakis. It thrusts players into the midst of a conflict between two great houses and allows players to play a small part in Dune’s history.

Dune: House Secrets is inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, but unlike its predecessor, it’s an adventure game. Players are not playing as investigators, detectives, or cops — they are rebels, part of the resistance forces fighting against House Harkonnen.

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Dune: House Secrets – adventure game on Dune

20 lipca, 2021 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

Dune: House Secrets is an adventure game that takes place on Arrakis. It’s set during the events described in the novel and allows players to play a small part in Dune’s history.

The game is inspired by the award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. It’s a card-driven game in which players have three unique Chapters to complete. Each chapter is a series of Encounters represented by cards that, based on the player’s choices, shape the game’s story, just like in RPGs.

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Italy won, England lost, or EuroCup blog

12 lipca, 2021 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

Ignacy:
I always supported England. I was a die-hard fan of the team with Joe Cole, with Frank Lampard, with Steven Gerrard, with David Beckham, I loved them all. I remember the epic shot from Steven Gerrard that was a goal, but there was no goal-line technology back then, and we all in front of TV saw a goal, but the referee did not. I remember myself taking bets that David Beckham will have the most assists in the cup. I remember the anger I felt when Sven Goran Eriksson lost the match that was basically won, but he decided he will do the substitution…

I always supported England. Always, but not this time.

Rahim Sterling’s dive in the match against Denmark was a disgrace. I couldn’t accept it. I turned my back on England for the first time in my life.

England scored a quick goal against Italy and stopped playing. From the 10th minute of the game, they decided that they want to keep the score. No ambition to score again. No motivation to create a spectacle. Just stone cold Mourinho style game. It was a disgrace. The whole world watching and you just defend the 1:0 score. I couldn’t accept it. I felt it was good I turned my back on England this time.

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Nobody in the USA cares for soccer.
Also, half of the print run for Eleven sold out in 4 weeks.

I appreciate you. Thank you for being awesome.

Link: https://shopportalgames.com/collections/eleven

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Also, half of the print run for Eleven sold out in 4 weeks. 

I appreciate you. Thank you for being awesome.

Link: https://t.co/9u1ztHzmi9
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OMG! It's only been a month since the release of Eleven: Football Manager Board Game and half of the print run is already sold out!

We are incredibly proud, thanks to you! 😁

Check out here:
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Today we published our monthly debrief, so buckle up and see what’s happening at Portal Games!

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Great selection of the new releases, including our Eleven at Games and Stuff!

Great selection of the new releases, including our Eleven at Games and Stuff!
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Happy Monday! Time to start the week off right with some board game excitement 🥳

Which game are you itching to add to your collection this week? Let us know in the comments 👇🏼 and let's make this week a blast! #boardgames

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If you missed this news, you can find all the most essential information about the two expansions for Eleven here 👉 http://bit.ly/Solo-Stadium-release

Be the best football manager on the board and expand your collection! ⚽

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