They call me Doctor Worm
Good morning. How are you? I'm Doctor Worm.
I'm interested in things. (At the very least this week has been an interesting one)
My Polynesia cards have not yet arrived (They were due to be finished printing on Wednesday of last week, but I got an email on Friday last from SuperiorPOD saying that my order was complete, and on Monday I got an email saying that my cards had been shipped.) When they arrive I will do a post about how they are (quality and packaging mostly)
I have been toying with the idea of replacing the Strategy board with individual cards for different strategies, and cards to indicate how many points you have. I think that it could make the game much cheaper to print in the long run. I have multiple different options for printing point cards, and I want to make sure that I choose a cheap one that is also easy to use. Here the options are (from cheapest to most expensive)
0) Tell the player to get paper and pencil and keep track of their points (like Munchkin does).
1) Each person has two double sided cards which look like this:
+--------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
2) Each person has a set of 6 cards numbered: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. They put them all face down except for the cards that add up to their point total (There is only one possible way to get any given point total with this method, and it is fairly easy to tell what point total every one is at). This reasonably goes up to 63, however going above that would be hard (not that you need to go over 63 often).
3) Each person has a set of 7 cards numbered: 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 10, 20. They put them all face down except for the cards that add up to their point total. This goes up to 39 reasonably, however going above that would be hard (and that is a pickle, since games fairly often end with multiple players in the 40s)
Options 2 and three would make the game cost increase by ~$1.50 (so keep that in mind). If you have any feedback about any of these methods, please tell me.
Apparently this baby is not ready to be born yet. When we got ultrasounds, the technician said that the baby was of a size that its due date looked to be more like July 21st, so if the doctor was wrong and the technician was right then we still have 4 days till the baby is really due. (That is what we have to tell ourselves at least)
Andrea has been very busy this week. At the end of last week she started to enjoy playing tug with Rusty (though she calls it 'playing tig with rusty').
She knows that reading is a great and a fun thing (Alison and I read for fun), and she has always grabbed books and pretended to read them, but recently we have been playing a reading game with her where we write words down and then sound them out to her. She will sometimes read a word correctly, but whether or not she is right she has fun. I think that last night she fully grasped what we were doing for the first time when we sounded out the letters and then said the word. She got a lot of the words right after sounding them out the first time, and once we were done she got a crayon and paper and started to scribble on it and say "U, P, Rusty" (Her example was not correct, but she obviously recognizes that individual letters make up words).
Since she was doing this we decided to see if we could get her to write some letters. She knows how to read the letters fairly well (She has been pointing certain letters out to us by name (such as B and H) for months), but she does not have the fine motor control to make a crayon go where she wants it to go (all of her drawings are scribbles even though she can point out things like dogs to us in pictures and tries to draw them). We gave her a blank paper and Alison showed her how to draw a t (First you make a straight line, and then you make another line that crosses the first line). She tried a few times, and got it right twice, but she then decided to do other things.
When I was putting her to sleep she told me 'Not fair!', but she went to sleep alright.
I'm interested in things. (At the very least this week has been an interesting one)
My Polynesia cards have not yet arrived (They were due to be finished printing on Wednesday of last week, but I got an email on Friday last from SuperiorPOD saying that my order was complete, and on Monday I got an email saying that my cards had been shipped.) When they arrive I will do a post about how they are (quality and packaging mostly)
I have been toying with the idea of replacing the Strategy board with individual cards for different strategies, and cards to indicate how many points you have. I think that it could make the game much cheaper to print in the long run. I have multiple different options for printing point cards, and I want to make sure that I choose a cheap one that is also easy to use. Here the options are (from cheapest to most expensive)
0) Tell the player to get paper and pencil and keep track of their points (like Munchkin does).
1) Each person has two double sided cards which look like this:
+--------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
| 1 ^ 2| | 8 9 10| |17 18 19| |26 ^ 27|
| | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | 4| |11 12 13| |20 21 22| |28 | 29|
| | | | | | | |
| 5 6 7| |14 15 16| |23 24 25| |30 31 32|
+--------+ +--------+ +--------+ +--------+
They place the arrow of one card on the point value that they are at (on the other card) When they go over 32 points the game is over (as has for a long time been the rules) so at that point they declare that they are over 32 points and then they place the arrow on the number that indicates how much they exceeded 32 points by. This reasonably goes up to 32, and if you remember that you are above 32 you can go up to 64 reasonably as well.2) Each person has a set of 6 cards numbered: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. They put them all face down except for the cards that add up to their point total (There is only one possible way to get any given point total with this method, and it is fairly easy to tell what point total every one is at). This reasonably goes up to 63, however going above that would be hard (not that you need to go over 63 often).
3) Each person has a set of 7 cards numbered: 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 10, 20. They put them all face down except for the cards that add up to their point total. This goes up to 39 reasonably, however going above that would be hard (and that is a pickle, since games fairly often end with multiple players in the 40s)
Options 2 and three would make the game cost increase by ~$1.50 (so keep that in mind). If you have any feedback about any of these methods, please tell me.
Apparently this baby is not ready to be born yet. When we got ultrasounds, the technician said that the baby was of a size that its due date looked to be more like July 21st, so if the doctor was wrong and the technician was right then we still have 4 days till the baby is really due. (That is what we have to tell ourselves at least)
Andrea has been very busy this week. At the end of last week she started to enjoy playing tug with Rusty (though she calls it 'playing tig with rusty').
She knows that reading is a great and a fun thing (Alison and I read for fun), and she has always grabbed books and pretended to read them, but recently we have been playing a reading game with her where we write words down and then sound them out to her. She will sometimes read a word correctly, but whether or not she is right she has fun. I think that last night she fully grasped what we were doing for the first time when we sounded out the letters and then said the word. She got a lot of the words right after sounding them out the first time, and once we were done she got a crayon and paper and started to scribble on it and say "U, P, Rusty" (Her example was not correct, but she obviously recognizes that individual letters make up words).
Since she was doing this we decided to see if we could get her to write some letters. She knows how to read the letters fairly well (She has been pointing certain letters out to us by name (such as B and H) for months), but she does not have the fine motor control to make a crayon go where she wants it to go (all of her drawings are scribbles even though she can point out things like dogs to us in pictures and tries to draw them). We gave her a blank paper and Alison showed her how to draw a t (First you make a straight line, and then you make another line that crosses the first line). She tried a few times, and got it right twice, but she then decided to do other things.
When I was putting her to sleep she told me 'Not fair!', but she went to sleep alright.
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