Re: New Racing Game in Rulesets in Progress - and Hello!

["Benedict" <boycat_oh@...>]

Welcome to the group!!

> Greetings, this is my first post to piecepack, but I've been 
lurking 
> here for a month or so.  
> 
> I'm a game designer by trade (Stupendous Games - 
> www.stupendousgames.com) -excuse the shameless plug.  
Recently I 
> stumbled across the piecepack and have totally geeked on the 
> concept.  (I'm also toying with publishing piecepacks - 
although that 
> will be a different post.)
> 
> This is the first of three games the piecepack has insprired in 
me.  
> (One is a solitaire game and might get entered in the contest.)
> 
> Feed-back is desired!  
> 
> - A better name than "Rally Racers"? - ugg!
> - Is Ram too expensive?
> - Dashboards too small? confusing?


I haven't played your game, but from reading the rules I have a 
question and a comment.

Q: when setting up your car at the start it isn't 100% clear (to me, 
anyway) whether you can customize your vehicle or not. An extra 
sentence may be helpful here. If you can customize, then 
possibly an additional example (picture) might be helpful.

Comment: generally the game looks great, I like the varying 
tracks (always a benefit to prevent racing games from becoming 
stale as well as for changing difficulty level) and the rules are 
well laid out.  The dashboards are neat, you have obviously gone 
to a fair amount of trouble on these. I don't think they are too 
confusing, however it seems like they might be vulnerable to 
even mild jostling during the game, which could lead to 
arguments about exactly where the pips are pointing.  This 
could possibly be improved by being bigger (I don't think there 
would be any problem having a full page-sized board).

Nice website, I love the idea for the state quarters game about 
George ;)

Phillip