Twitch with Penny Arcade - Tuesday Oct 17 5:30PM Eastern! Plus. BackerKit lockdown
over 6 years ago – Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 07:24:50 PM

Hey all, we have some pretty exciting news! We're going to be visiting Seattle next week and we'll be live on Penny Arcade's Twitch channel ( http://twitch.tv/pennyarcade/ ) for their weekly tabletop games segment, which will be from about 5:30 - 7:30 Eastern (2:30 - 4:30 Pacific) showing off ODD: Forest of Shadows. We're hoping to play a 4 player game on stream, too!

During the stream, we'll be making a TOP SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT. It's pretty cool, and I think you will like it.

(If you do not like it, a Glooping Ooze from our Fun Enforcement Division will visit you.)

BackerKit Info

We charged credit cards and locked down orders for all BackerKit pre-orders and KS add-ons today, most have gone through. Stripe's fraud prevention systems have become a bit overzealous as of late. If your card was declined, it may have been flagged by Stripe (the CC processing system used by KickStarter and BackerKit) as a "high risk" card. Switching to a different card may help, and if you still can't get that resolved contact me and we'll try and get it fixed.

Shipping addresses on BackerKit will lock down starting next week, as we prepare for fulfillment in November. If you need to update your address, please do it now!

Production Schedule, BackerKit Cards Charging, Twitch Event Oct 17!
over 6 years ago – Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 12:06:17 AM

Hey all, wanted to update everyone on the status of production and timelines.

The wooden bits have taken *much* longer than expected. They will be complete and at our warehouse on November 8. Paper components will be printed by then, which means it's a matter of waiting for an assembly line at the factory to free up and then put all the boxes together. If everything goes according to plan, we'll mail out copies Nov 15-17, and we'll also have copies at PAX Unplugged (Nov 17-19) in Philadelphia. If not, it'll be another week or two beyond that, because that's right up against Thanksgiving. It's unfortunate, but there's not much I can do about it at this point.

BackerKit Lockdown / CC Charges

We will start locking down completed BackerKit orders and charging them next Wednesday, October 11. If you need to update your order to add or remove items, please do so in the next week! 

https://one-deck-dungeon-forest-of-shadows.backerkit.com/

Also, if you haven't added your address in there (there are still 30 stragglers!) please do so before then, or your game likely won't be in the first wave sent out. 

Twitch Stream: October 17!

We're going to be doing an exciting event on Twitch on October 17, which we'll be sharing more details about next week. It's going to be super cool and we'll have a big announcement* to share during it :)

*-announcement probably not related to Glooping Ooze stealing all the dice

Rules, Music, Proofing/Production
over 6 years ago – Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:36:25 AM

Greetings! We have some things to share, now that summer is winding down and production is winding up. Wood bits and dice are manufactured and on their way to our factory, leaving the paper bits (and plastic cards) left to be produced. We're a little bit off from our September target date, but hopefully not by more than a few weeks. When we have a more precise production timeline, we'll share it.

Rules and Proofs

http://asmadigames.com/files/ODD_Rulebook_1.6.pdf

First up, the rulebook! Instead of having separate rulebooks for the two games, we've unified everything into one, new, streamlined rulebook. It's versioned 1.6 because the layout changed substantially, but there aren't any rules or balance changes from v1.5. 

The rest of the proofs are also available, if you're interested to see:

http://asmadigames.com/files/ODDFoSProofs/

There were a few balance changes between the beta PnP and now, tweaking things to get the difficulty right. We also added the keyword exile to represent a component being removed to the game box, and changed the rules for poison - instead of instantly losing when poison tokens run out, further poison tokens become damage instead. 

Music

The soundtrack is progressing nicely, and we'd like to share one of the tracks:

It's pretty great, and we're really happy with how the music's shaping up! Sure would fit nice in a digital version.

 Glooping Ooze Heist

Claims have been made in the comments section that the Glooping Ooze has in fact stolen all the dice from the factory and gone on the lam. We are carefully investigating these rumors and will report back with any findings! 

Schedule, Playtesting, Gen Con!
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:23:52 PM

Nothing jinxes a project like saying 'Everything's on schedule!' which I unwisely did just yesterday in the comments section. Oops.

Our wooden bits are delayed, which is going to push production back by about a month. Annoying, but we're going to turn an annoyance into an opportunity. Gen Con is in 3 weeks, and though our files are all print ready, they don't need to go to press yet since the wood isn't going to get here till later anyway. So, we're going to un-lock the game so that we can do any tweaks we want to make based on the hundreds of games that happen later this month at the convention. 

We will also be printing a lot more copies of both games, based on distributor demand. We apologize for the delay, nonetheless. I'd rather have the games out to you all now!

Gen Con: Asmadi Games Department of Fun!

Speaking of Gen Con, if you're coming, visit us! We own event room ICC: 143 (that's right across from the expo hall in the convention center) all weekend long. We've got scheduled ticketed events running from 10 to 6 every day, and limited open demos (without teachers) in the evenings, first-come first-serve. 

We might also have a glooping ooze plushie or two on hand to hug! And maybe a handful (a dozen or two) for purchase in the booth, if some arrive on time (ditto: playmats). Do not hug the playmat. That's weird.

Box Adjustment

The boxes for Forest of Shadows and the new print run of base One Deck Dungeon will be about a quarter inch taller than previous print runs. This should make things fit a bit more comfortably, especially if you choose to sleeve.

Updated Print + Play / Balancing Changes
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 12:01:16 AM

We've got balancing pretty well wrapped up on Forest of Shadows, and we've updated the Print and Play to reflect the new versions of things. 

Print and Play PDF

All the finalized art is in there as well, including Indrax and the updated Poison Elemental.

Balance Updates

The biggest change is to the Alchemist:

 She has new abilities, as the previous iteration was causing trouble. She gets to use every potion token twice, and has a very neat skill to use those magic dice she accumulates. 

 Indrax is pretty nasty! But what else would you expect from a hard boss :)

The other changes we made were slight adjustments in number one way or another, lots of wording clean-ups and clarifications, and redistribution of the leaf icons to properly split up items.