Sneak peek at ADV550
The air fills with tension, and there is a subdued crackling sound. A blue aura forms about your lantern, and small sparks jump from the lantern to the ground. The aura fades away after several seconds, and your lamp is once again shining brightly.
Good Monday morning to everybody!
The comments page has been busy lately, due to my soliciting suggestions for stretch goals in the last update. I decided to respond to some of these comments over on my BGG Designer Diary (this post), since my responses tend to be huge walls of text. That post is about the mechanics of light and darkness in Colossal Cave: The Board Game, and what else I might do with light and darkness in the expansion.
Speaking of the expansion, with only two weeks left in the Kickstarter campaign, it's time to roll out some photos of the ADV550 prototype. These cards aren't part of the base game; they're part of the expansion, which you can get by pledging at the $55 level and higher.
Here we see two new Magic Words (the expansion contains four); a new Treasure (the expansion contains eleven); and an entertainingly nasty new sort of Reaction card. We also see the Secret New Mechanic! That mechanic is a new type of card, the "Location", which is added to the map when it's played. In this way the deepest rooms of the cave are often inaccessible for the first half of the game... until you've explored the cave deep enough to discover them. To compensate for making the cave deeper, there are some additional means of traveling quickly from A to B — some of which are not Magic Words!
The cards in the ADV550 expansion are based on Dave Platt's Adventure 550, also known as Adventure 3. Sorry, I don't know of anywhere it's playable online, although I will probably be trying to change that soon.
Please continue to follow my Twitter and my Designer Diary blog for day-to-day information about Colossal Cave. And tell your friends! Let's see if we can crack $9,000 this week.
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- First created · 35 backed
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- Website: club.cc.cmu
Pledge $5 or more
1 backer
Rank Amateur: Receive a single Item, Action, or Reaction card autographed with a personal thank-you from the designer.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $17 or more
15 backers All gone!
Novice Class Adventurer: The first 15 backers at this level will receive their copy of the game and an EXCLUSIVE Kickstarter promo card for only $17 — a $5 savings!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $20 or more
35 backers
Novice Class Adventurer: Receive one copy of "Colossal Cave: The Board Game". (Please add $15 for international shipping.)
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $22 or more
56 backers
Experienced Adventurer: Receive one copy of the game, plus an EXCLUSIVE Kickstarter promo card!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $30 or more
131 backers
Seasoned Adventurer: Along with your copy of the game, you'll receive five MORE promo cards (not guaranteed to be Kickstarter-exclusive), such as the Red Rod, the Breathtaking View, and Fresh Batteries. Of course you'll also receive the Kickstarter EXCLUSIVE promo card!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $40 or more
5 backers
Junior Master: Receive TWO copies of "Colossal Cave: The Board Game", each with its own Kickstarter promo card. Backers at this level and higher will also be listed as "Master Adventurers" in the rulebook distributed with every copy of the game!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $55 or more
94 backers
Master Adventurer Class C: Receive two copies of the game, plus five promo cards and a Kickstarter promo card apiece. Also, receive a pre-release copy of the ADV550 expansion, currently in playtesting! (Please add $20 for international shipping.)
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $100 or more
8 backers Limited (27 of 35 left)
Master Adventurer Class B: Receive three copies of the game, promo cards, and the ADV550 expansion; plus an UNCUT SHEET of 54 of the cards in the game. Ideal for handling those pesky gamers who always want a cheat sheet! (Add $20 for each additional uncut sheet.)
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $200 or more
1 backer Limited (14 of 15 left)
Master Adventurer Class A: Receive seven copies of the game, seven copies of each promo card including the Kickstarter EXCLUSIVE card, seven copies of the ADV550 expansion, and one of fifteen LIMITED EDITION 8"x10" art prints from the game's artist Katy "Kovah" Grierson, depicting one of the fifteen treasures of Colossal Cave. (Please add $30 for international shipping.)
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $350 or more
3 backers Limited (4 of 7 left)
Receive everything at the $200 level, except that YOUR limited edition art print will depict ALL FIFTEEN treasures safely deposited in the Well House. All of Adventuredom gives tribute to you, Adventurer Grandmaster!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
0 backers
Implementor: Receive everything at the $350 level, plus... I don't know. 100 copies of the game? Invitation to an elite playtest session with the designer? Your likeness on the box cover? Limited edition art print of all 25 treasures in the expansion? Suggest something! If it's doable, I'll make it happen.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
Comments
Creator Arthur O'Dwyer on May 8, 2012
@Foolhardy: Nope, highly unlikely. $55 is the "I like this idea so much I'm pledging $55 to see it happen!" level, and the reward for that level of dedication is you get the expansion, plus a *bonus* extra copy of the game to donate to your game library or sell online or whatever. Think of it that way and see if it makes you want to jump up that extra level. :)
Creator Foolhardy Rocketship Mechanic on May 8, 2012
Any chance of adding in a pledge level for just one copy and the expansion?
Creator Arthur O'Dwyer on May 7, 2012
And no, I don't know yet what the prices are going to be on shop.gamesalute.com. For now, if you're worried about prices, you'll have to make your own judgment as to whether the Kickstarter rewards are priced below MSRP... but I'm pretty sure they are. :)
Creator Arthur O'Dwyer on May 7, 2012
@Joshua: Yes. It is likely that they'll have art, somehow. The current design meshes well with the prototype board but definitely doesn't mesh with the final board art!
@Oregon: You are correct. Although I prefer to think of it as, there's no way to preorder the expansion cards without pledging at least $55 to the project, and then you get a bonus copy of the game into the bargain! :) You'll be able to order both game and expansion from shop.gamesalute.com once the Kickstarter is over and the game is actually in production.
Creator Oregon Pinkrose on May 7, 2012
Am I correct that there is no way to get the expansion cards without buying two copies of the game?
Creator Joshua Sauer on May 7, 2012
You KNOW what I'm going to have to ask, right? About the new location cards?
Creator Arthur O'Dwyer on May 7, 2012
And if you follow my Twitter already and are wondering why I didn't plug http://quuxplusone.github.com/Advent/ in this update... it's because apparently the dwarf/pirate movement code is still buggy, which renders the game unwinnable. I'm working on it, and will definitely announce it loudly when it's done.