Out of Turn Actions – Playtest
In the last couple of posts I talked about changes to A Taste for the King to address down time. The first was an attempt at a form of concurrent play which went rather...
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The Botched Playtest (and Why That’s OK)
Following feedback from the playtests at UKGE I quickly took A Taste for the King to a Break My Game session with some major changes. One person had suggested a potential solution to add...
The All-Seeing Orb
The All-Seeing Orb was my entry to Godot Wild Jam 46. The theme was Orb and the wildcards were: I Feel Small – Make enemies much larger than the player Fear of the Dark...
Considering Out of Turn Actions (And Other Updates)
One suggestion given at UKGE for A Taste for the King was to give players a list of actions they can do out of their turn, limited perhaps to once per game. I have...
First Time at UKGE
This weekend I attended UKGE (2022) for the first time, I’ve wanted to go for a long time but it never seemed to work out. It was an interesting experience. I spoke to a...
The Short Multiple Lives of Negative Action Cards
Negative or shared action cards are a concept I tried a couple of times with A Taste for the King. The idea was that rather than helping the current player survive, the cards would...
The Future of Secret Message
Secret Message is an action card in A Taste for the King. You may remember the previous post covering changes to Secret Message. Secret Message allows a player to ignore the effect of a...
Discussing the Interaction Between Amanita and Belladonna
A Taste for the King is as much a game about poisons as it is about delicious Medieval food! From its inception one of the core three poisons has been Belladonna (originally called Nightshade...
Godot Unique Scene Names – New to 3.5/4.0
Godot 3.5 (and seemingly originally developed for Godot 4.0) is getting a new feature that allows you to access a node using its name in the scene instead of its node path. This is...
Ludum Dare 50
It’s been a while since I tried a Ludum Dare and even longer since I managed to submit something to one. This one rather stuck up on me but I found myself with a...