A few weeks ago my review copy of Pocket Sports Cycling Tour arrived in the mail. It is one of many in the series of Pocket Sports in which Hamish Sterling tries to capture the thrill of sports as varied as Soccer, Baseball a...
With the recent big batch of new games only on the market for a month, it's time to look forward again to the next lot. The experience of producing the recent six latest games taught a few lessons I will apply for future publishing.
2014 saw the release of games 5 & 6, Pocket Rugby & Pocket Basketball bringing a mix of mechanics from the previous games. We wanted to improve the opponent inclusion in the games and these two games saw some changes.
I'm as eager as everyone for the new games to arrive at the end of the month. The New Edition Rugby has had a quick turnaround from originally being published as Pocket Rugby League in May, transforming into a hybrid version with both League & Union rules for our UK d...
Initially I started with 6 dice for this game. Our first game, Pocket Cricket began life with 5 dice and then the addition of the extra batting style gave players a choice and so it became 6. Pocket Footy then saw 7 dice and Golf & Football saw 8.
How can the mighty Pocket Cricket get any better I hear you ask? Simple......build a brother. A new game that provides a longer battle. A gripping 2 innings match that sees difficult appeals and decisions face tougher batsmen and cunning fieldsmen.
I've always wanted to make a baseball game. After Pocket Cricket was designed, crossing over the mechanics of hitting choice (conservative/aggressive) seemed like an obvious transition.
Not being a diehard baseball fan though, I needed more time and feedback from cousi...
Each new game I design tends to start the same way, but finishes in ways I hadn't considered when beginning.
Pocket Tennis is nice, simple and captures a solid tennis theme. Two players, back and forth. The dice will tell you much of what's happening but I've inclu...
