I'm still early in the design of this game. I have a lot of ideas, which I will flesh out and record on this blog. (In part, I'm blogging here partly to record these ideas for my own reference, as well as to welcome comments from anyone who cares to read my musings). I have created an outline map, overlaying a hex grid on the UK coastline, adding the major cities and tracing the major rail routes to ensure that the historical outcome would at least be possible. This in turn has suggested some new track tiles to add to the game, and some ideas for handling routes into London.
What I plan to do next is to draw a full size map and experiment with the options it give for route building and competition. In parallel with that activity, I will sketch out the flow of the financial side of the game. With luck, these two lines of development will fit together and produce a game that's decent enough to start a long process of playtesting and tweaking. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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The design that began as Britain Under Steam morphed into 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, and that game was published by Deep Thought Games in 2018. Meanwhile, I've left this blog to languish. But today I wrote up some thoughts about "The 1835 Family" and I need somewhere to post them, and I've decided to use this blog as a suitable site for this article and any other gaming articles that may or may not follow.
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- Dave Berry
- Work: I am the Enterprise Architect in the Information Systems group of the University of Edinburgh.
Play: I like board games, particularly those in the 18xx family; music, although I don't play myself; and reading, especially science fiction.
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