playtesting

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...

A few more changes from my first play testing session. ## Marketing equals The amount of marketing resources you put into a product will now equal the number of turns it generates profits. This prevents players becoming so much 'victims of history' and becoming burdened with unsuccessful products. This now allows players to have more strategy and make their favourite products from history a success. ## Refining Staff Continuing from the last changes to staff in Chip Shop, they have been refine...

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. This 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. {% picture lis...

After making many changes, some of which I will get around to blogging about soon, play testing for Chip Shop is open again! If you're not already signed up to the testing newsletter, [then join here](https://gregariousmammal.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a177a7811dd28fcd87829f78f&id=13bd96907c), but this isn't compulsory, it will just keep you up to date. ## Manual You can access the game manual as [HTML](https://chipshopgame.com/manual/) and [PDF](https://chipshopgame.com/pod/Individual%20pdfs/manual/manual.pdf). ## Print Yourself You can download PDFs of all the game assets to print yourself, cut out and play. If you open [this URL](https://chipshopgame.com/pod/), you should find everything you need, split into respec...

It's been a while since my last update pertaining to the Chip Shop board game. After realising that board games isn't that lucrative of a business, it slipped down my priority list somewhat. I also had a lot of feedback from the UK Games Expo (thanks to Carrie and Tyler for running the booth for me) to process and that took time... I am happy to now announce the release of what I will call, version 0.2 of Chip Shop, complete with a **lot** of changes. The aim to fix balance issues, make components...