Shipping and Rolf!
over 7 years ago – Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:52:44 PM

Hi Everyone,

Many of you have worried about moving since we last sent out our survey, but don't worry!! We will be sending out a new survey shortly and get all new addresses for everyone. Well, everyone who will be getting the expansion and care package!

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Also, we want to let everyone know about a new game, Rolf, that we are producing by the very talented game designer Robert Burke. Rolf is a much different game, a party game, and a DONE game. That last part is the important because all we're doing is raising funds to go to manufacturing (within like 2 weeks of finishing here), to get it made and ship it to you. But go take a look:

Rolf!

Thank you!

The Wizard School Team

Art Update
over 7 years ago – Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 02:10:16 PM

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Status Update!
over 7 years ago – Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 08:47:13 PM

Well, I did a bad job of updating you every weekend! But! Since the last update we've been building the cards (see a final version of Arlo the Volvo here. 

But in addition to the expansion pack having new cards, it also has new rules. In "Dirty Little Secrets" we're introducing a new method of gameplay, "Summer School."

Basically, the expansion will contain special graduation cards which create a different game experience and a much quicker game. When you decide to play a Summer School game, you randomly pick just one Summer School Graduation Card. You still attempt to complete the graduation challenges, but each time you do, instead of getting a reward (like in normal school), the game gets harder! As you complete additional challenges the difficulty continues to ramp up. So choose wisely when you choose the order you complete the challenges. If you choose poorly, you could find yourself in an impossible situation!

We wanted to create an option for quicker play, so that's something that have been working on developing along with the Dirty Little Secrets expansion.

The DFTBA Games team is headed to VidCon next weekend, so we probably won't have an update for you. Hopefully we'll see some of you there!

Hank

Status Report!
over 7 years ago – Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:23:37 PM

Here are some fast stats on where we're at. There are 40 cards in the Dirty Little Secrets expansion. Six graduation cards, three students, and the rests are spells, items, friends, monsters, and tests. Of those 31 have final text and rules (I need to write six, and Eric needs to finish play mechanics for another three). 

Since Karen needs us to finalize a lot of stuff before starting on art, and she's only been on the case a couple weeks, about 25% of the cards currently have art done. Including, most recently, this Magical Friend:

Name: Arlo the Volvo
Flavor text: Your getaway car is your best friend, so you put up with the smell.
Rule: Ignore any ongoing special rules from the Graduation Card.

I inherited Arlo (a 1991 Volvo 240) from my brother who named him after Arlo Guthrie because he's a weirdo. Arlo was a wonderful car, and I finally sold him a few years after moving to Montana. No one I knew ever puked in Arlo (though my friend Brad very nearly did after getting upsettingly wasted one evening) but, nonetheless, Arlo always smelled a little bit like vomit. It was either a previous owner or just an effect of the constant Florida dampness. Either way, Arlo was a wonderful car and I hope he's still rockin' the road somewhere.

This week, Karen is slaving away at her tablet while Hank and Eric finalize the text and rules for the last nine cards in the expansion. Also, Eric will be doing card layout so, hopefully we'll have a finalized card to show you next week. 

 -- Hank

Hank's Dirty Little Secrets Update
over 7 years ago – Sun, May 14, 2017 at 12:27:24 AM

So What's Going On

Our final shipment is waiting on all of the bits to come together for our expansion pack, Hank's Dirty Little Secrets. We've been play testing the expansion for the last couple months and have it functioning solidly. Now we're finalizing the cards, their function, and getting art together.

We appear to have continued our terrible and embarrassing tradition of going too long between updates. We're sorry for that, and we understand all of the frustration we hear. We're going to endeavor to have an update for you every single week (on Saturday or Sunday) to let you know how the expansion is progressing.

Karen has a steady supply of art coming in, so we'll have more than words to share...though with Dirty Little Secrets, there's a certain amount we don't want to (can't in good conscience) share publicly (like "second base" up there.)

Thank you for supporting Wizard School,

Hank and the WS Team