Age of Steam expansion designers and avid players Alban Viard and Michael Webb discuss news, sessions, expansions, and new prototypes.
I had the pleasure of playing the Spain map by the Steam Brothers last night with my regular play group, this being the last session prior to my move up to East Lansing, after which my AoS playtime is going to be greatly diminished. For those who aren't...
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Yesterday, we travelled Egypt for the second time. My favorit players , Brice, Guillaume , Mathieu were at home for a good cause : adjust the first rules of this expansion... My first idea is to flood the left side of the Nile in the first turn, the right...
Lire la suiteThe design bug bit me again in the shower yesterday, so I did some more preliminary design ideas for Michigan, and I'm at the point now where I might do a rough draw of the map up and start toying with the mathematical design of the map and expenses....
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As you know, i have too much ideas for expansions to develope them even with my job... But, i imagined last night new ideas that didn't work in my India expansion, about water and flooding... Probably these ideas could work very well in another country...
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During summer holidays, i have plenty of time to play with my friends at my favorite game Age of Steam, even to imagine new expansions . But today, we want to come back in Iraq, to adjust the bonus rule of black cubes (oil). Brice (purple), Guillaume...
Lire la suiteEven though I, at one point, intended Montreal to be my only Age of Steam expansion, I realized after it was complete that I had a lot of discarded ideas that were good enough to re-use, or re-implement in a future map. AoS - Michigan started as a stock...
Lire la suite(coming soon) Far before John Bohrer published his Netherlands expansion, i designed my Netherlands expansion... Why the Netherlands... Germany, France, Itali, South of England, some US maps were already designed at the end of 2004, so the last country...
Lire la suiteI like excursions. With one of my best friend, every summer, we go in french montains to make sport. But french montains are not very high. I dream to go in Chili... Age of Steam can easyly go every where, particularly in Chili. The size and the global...
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