{"type":"blog","id":"2016/2016-01-09-turning-chip-shop-into-a-board-game","title":"Turning Chip Shop into a Board Game","url":"/blog/2016/2016-01-09-turning-chip-shop-into-a-board-game","summary":"I spent some time this week finishing off a lot of the changes from my last round of playtesting, most of these have resulted in changing Chip Shop from a somewhat random card game with a board (for no particular reason) into a more rounded actual board game.","date":"2016-01-09","tags":["Games","Playtesting"],"categories":["games"],"body":"I spent some time this week finishing off a lot of the changes from my last round of playtesting, most of these have resulted in changing Chip Shop from a somewhat random card game with a board (for no particular reason) into a more rounded actual board game.\n\nThis took a lot of time to balance the best way to represent concepts, undoing a lot of work I had undertaken and also keeping an eye on how this will affect production of the print on demand and boxed version of the game.\n\n{% picture listings images/screen_board.jpg alt=\"Testing Screen Ideas\" %}\n\nThis has resulted in me shrinking the game cards, increasing the size of player boards and consolidating the main board into something usable and with a point.\n\nI'm still finishing updates to the game cards, manual and build processes but will produce a full blog post covering all the changes and new elements soon.","links":[],"fields":{}}