Sirlin

MARCH 28, 2015

I’m going to make a change to the Pandante stretch goals that benefits all our backers. Pandante is such a great game that I want to put out the best version I possibly can components-wise, no matter what funding level we reach. Even if we only raise a portion of what’s needed to fully fund this print run, I’m willing to pay for the component upgrades that I think Pandante and Flash Duel should have.

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MARCH 31, 2015

Edit: This was of course a light-hearted joke for April Fools' Day 2015 :). Free Godot. We have noticed a happy new industry trend amongst the major video game engines. In the interest of keeping hip with the trend, we decided to also follow suit. As of 12:01am CST today, we are very excited and overwhelmingly proud to announce that the entire Godot Engine is now FREE !

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Sirlin

MARCH 25, 2015

Pandante has a fun new feature called "casino cards" which I covered before, here. Casino cards let you visit a new casino in the Pandalands each gambit, each changing the rules in some way. Here's three of them: Bunny Hop Hotel. At this casino, you hop right to the action. There's only one betting phase, rather than three. You see all the community cards, bet, do abilities, then showdown.

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Sirlin

MARCH 22, 2015

Codex is an upcoming customizable (not collectable) card game that does things very differently from the rest of the genre. It's themed after RTS video games such as Starcraft and Warcraft 3. You command heroes who each have their own spells and you build tech buildings that produce units. You carry a lot of versatility into each game because the cards in your codex are analogous to all the things a given race could build in an RTS.

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Sirlin

MARCH 18, 2015

Winning by lying is the highest honor in Pandante (on kickstarter now ). When you do that in poker, it’s usually best to keep your bluff secret, but in Pandante we want to showcase that exciting moment. We want you to show everyone that you got away with it and gloat about it. In the original version of Pandante, winning by lying gave you one of six Panda Lord cards that are powerups for the next gambit (the next hand).

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Sirlin

MARCH 14, 2015

The new Pandante has a great feature called "casino cards." Each gambit (each time you start a new hand), you visit a new casino in the Pandalands which has slightly different rules. Here's three of them: Jokers Wild Resort. This is probably the most beloved casino amongst everyone I've played with, even though it's so simple. Before the gambit starts, you find the Joker in the deck, then make sure it's one of the initial three community cards (the "Splash").

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Sirlin

MARCH 11, 2015

The Pandante kickstarter is now live. The Light & Dark expansion for Pandante is unusual in a few ways. Usually expansions make a game more complicated. This one actually makes Pandante simpler , easier to explain, and faster to play. The core rules have been streamlined, many exceptions have been removed, and the flow of play has fewer steps so you can get through a gambit faster.

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Sirlin

MARCH 16, 2015

We discuss the development of Pandante's expansion and 2nd edition. All three of us were involved in this development and playtesting. The core game has simplified and streamlined rules and we go through each one and explain why we made these changes. We also cover all the new (optional) content and what it adds to the game. At the time of this post, Pandante is on kickstarter right now.

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Sirlin

MARCH 5, 2015

Next week, two of my games are about to get better. Pandante will get an expansion (and revised base sets for those new to the game) and Flash Duel will be reprinted with updated rules and balance. If you're excited when good things get better, I hope you check it out on kickstarter on March 10th. The print-and-play version of the Pandante expansion is available already here , for $8.

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