The team has concluded testing of version 1.76 and ready to move onto the next iteration. But before talking about the next iteration, let’s talk about the stats we tracked for our 1.76 testing. It’s one thing to playtest and make sure people are having fun, it’s another to focus Read more…
Bucking the trends of over-produced (expensive) games released on Kickstarter, we’re focused on bringing Helorian Battles to the market affordably. While this can make launching a Kickstarter more challenging since you need more people to buy at a lower price, it’s what we’ve envisioned since day one. A lot of Read more…
After being a long time lurker on Reddit, we recently joined – mostly to share Cities Skylines screenshots for feedback and follow along with the San Diego Padres. But low and behold after about a month we found a robust game design community on Reddit /tabletopgamedesign! It’s a great community Read more…
The main tenet our game is built around is points-based deck construction, similar to wargames. Each deck has a max point value, and players need to construct their decks around it. It’s provided a host of unique challenges (read all about it here & here). We’re also now experimenting with Read more…
New design, same website! Play testing is going as well as we could have hoped, we’ve now played with 5 new people and most of the games have gone well! It’s really helped identify some confusion in the rules, and in some of the terminology – most of which should Read more…
With our game printed for the first time, we’ve been able to expand playtesting and make some minor tweaks on the current iteration. Point Values This is where a ton of adjustments need to be made to balance the game. Balancing how many high powered units vs low power units Read more…
It has been a while since we have posted, but we have been working hard getting all of the artwork finalized! And we’re happy to announce that we received our first printing today. This will enable us to playtest with more people and more often. A big shout out to Read more…
Things keep on moving over here at Squeezymon Games as we focus on getting a printable version of the game together. With a printable version, we’ll be able to expand our playtesting pool and really iterate on the final adjustments to mechanics and balance. And so we’re excited to present Read more…
We’re excited to reveal our first logo! There may be some revisions to this as we finalize some of our design, but we’re pretty pleased with it! As we develop our brand, we will key off this to design additional logos and further refine our brand.
In addition to the poll posted on the site, we also passed out our artwork poll to friends and family. All artwork was graded on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being they strongly dislike the artwork, and 5 being they strongly like. The goal of the artwork poll was Read more…