Monsters Under My Bed

[John Galli]

Hey Pat,

I was thinking maybe the best way to get a game night going for this would be to do a facebook event. If you want to invite Travis and I as admins we could invite some people possibly interested in helping out and get a good testing session going with it. Usually Monday/Wednesday nights work best for me, Tuesdays sometimes. It was fun playing it yesterday and I definitely think you have a good initial concept. I'll see what I can do on the template side of things

[crazedferret]

That's a very good idea and I will post up the facebook message, but I want to get a little further along with personal and internal play test sessions first before I expand to people I don't know as much. I also need to look into patent/copyright etc. before doing too much external playtesting as well.

I have set out a goal of 50 personal play test sessions to iron out kinks (meaning I'll play my game through with myself/against myself 50 times), 100 internal (meaning closer friends and family where I don't have to concern myself with protecting it where 1 person is one play test) and 200 external play test sessions (meaning people I don't know where I have them sign confidentiality agreements and other stuffs to help protect it.) So a game of 4 people is 4 play tests. SO I'm looking at 50 games of just me, 25 games of internal circle, and 50 games of external circle of people. I think this will give me a good idea of the marketability of the game and would be a good thing to bring to a company in order to market/sell it once things are more solid.

I think a good point to start opening it up would be around 15-20 personal play test sessions and 5-10 internal play test sessions in just too make sure the majority of the kinks are ironed out. So for the time being I will restrict the invites to close friends on facbook.

[John Galli]

Here's some basic prototypes I was working on today (not a big fan of the monster one and I plan on doing more, this is just one idea)-

*Note - Full Card includes black border*