Friday, December 7, 2007

This Week In Ruin: December 7

Considering I haven't posted in over a month, let me bring you up to speed. Ruin development has bogged down as we lack fresh inspiration for new units. We have been playing a lot of games recently, so we made a lot of changes to individual units. Currently, we are working on rounding out our unit base and increasing our numbers of terrain and artifact cards. As our goal is begin official playtesting over winter break (Starting December 21st), we will be crunching in overtime over the next couple of weeks to make up for lost time in November.

Some Statistics: (Green for Good, red for bad)
Number of Assistants: 56
Number of Explorers: 15
Possible Combinations of 3 Assistants and 1 Explorer: 2634240
Number of Terrain Cards: 6

Number of Games of Ruin
Played to date: 30+
Average Game Time: 35-40 mins (goal time is 25-35)

You can see some differences in these versus our October 19th Statistics here
Though many things remain very similar, the number of games we've played (and therefore our experience of what makes a good unit on the battlefield) has gone up tenfold. Also, we're working on closing the gap with the final couple terrain, artifact, and explorer cards that we need to finish off the set.

Well, until next time, I hope I've Ruined your week.