I really like making game stuff. I'm a hobbyist: I love not only making my own games, but modifications and additions for existing games. I guess if I was smarter, I'd apply my interest in tweaking and modifying existing products to software or cars, but instead I work on boardgames and stuff like a loser. In any case, I find these very enjoyable exercises in design, and they're useful palette cleansers when I'd getting burned out while working on one of my own projects. Last year, I did Delve Magic while developing Afterglow. It was a fun distraction that required only a little work on my part, and gave me and my wife hours of entertainment using assets I already owned.
Well, I'm at it again. I was playing Talon 1000, which I really like, but I was kinda getting tired of a few things and some rust was starting to appear on it. So I figured I'd shake things up a bit and try making my own module for it. This is Talon Singularity (TS). I've been working on a game called Uncommon Valor for a little while now, having risen out of "demand" as opposed to necessarily interest in developing the system. Basically, my friend has some 28mm miniatures, and so do I, and we want to bash our mandollies together, but we need rules for it. Despite there being a bevvy of miniature-agnostic games out there I decided to lump one together out of a bunch of spare mechanics sitting around on my computer. So that's where this project came from.
Uncommon Valor is a miniature-agnostic tabletop wargame for two players. It can be played at any scale, but is getting tested with 28mm figures. Pieces are designed by the players using a fairly basic set of parameters so they can stat up whatever type of unit they'd like (within reason) to accommodate a broad range of models. After designing forces, the game is based around 3Ms: Morale, Maneuver, and Momentum. Each has a mechanic that represents this focus. It also has a delayed fire-resolution mechanism that I'm still tinkering with. I'm just going to give a brief rundown on the game here. |
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