gamedesign

Just a small update, with a much larger one coming next week. I have updated and refined the [costs](/manual/costs) and [card](/manual/cards) concepts of the game. I have also started drafting a manual which ties together the game into a sort or logic and creating the system that I will use (and the public in the future) to create cards. All of that will be reported back on next week!

A few small updates in this blog post, however, they have a large impact on the game. ## Regional Focus As much as it pains me (being a Sega fan boy), this initial edition of the game is US only and thus, there will be no Nintendo, Sega or other Japanese products and personalities represented. They will of course be added at a later date, but I need to focus for now. ## Game concepts In an effort to make the game as accessible as possible for non-English speakers and allow for easier translat...

Over the weekend thanks to [Berlin Games Week](https://www.gamesweekberlin.com/) I attended the <a href="https://www.computerspielemuseum.de/" target="_blank">Berlin Computer Spiele Museum</a> for free. It was a small exhibition but great research for Chip Shop and the visit combined with several other events during the week inspired me to work on some of the product cards on Sunday. Interestingly this included working on cards for several products that were either failures or were never released commercially. I wondered how the...