El Grande now in alpha

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mman04
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by mman04 »

Hi @volker78,

first of all, thanks a lot for this great implementation of a classic board game, one of my favorites.
I'm now on "reviewing" a game, so I'm not sure if this is the correct place to put the feedback?

Anyway:
- first impression, was very good
- very intuitive, we almost never doubted on how to proceed with our actions

Some remarks:
- a first remark we did have was the colors. They might have to be made a bit more distinctive (I'm colorblin, but even my friends had issues making distinctions). Also there seems to be a difference in the color of the name of the player and their actual color.
- probably you thought of giving the option of a short (6rounds) and a long game (9rounds)
- When playing with five, by the second half of the game, a lot of players caballeros are on the board. Might be a suggestion to add an overlay on each province displaying the total of Caballeros + also the number of each player.

Some minor suggestions:
- The mobile scoreboard could be made a bit clearer (so it stands out to the rest)
- Is it an option of adding an "undo action" when you have chosen a card, but not played it yet?

We also found some bugs (you might be able to replay our game to see so):
- at a certain moment I placed 5 caballeros (King's card) + I moved the King + I was able to add again 5 caballeros (which I did not do, because of the sake of the game, but there must be some logic wrong there)
- During our game scoring Valencia was wrong: 3rd place only got 1 point

Looking forward to playing it again soon and to see the progress!
Again many thanks!
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Volker78
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by Volker78 »

Thanks for the detailled feedback. The right place for ideas + bugs would be the bugs section on BGA.

You are right, valencia last place was wrong, I fixed it now :-)

Undo action would be much work, I am unsure for that one.

Colors: perhaps I'll redesign the onboard graphics, not sure about the work for that.

Option for short/long: should be easy.

Displaying numbers of cabs: it's planned somehow.

Please report a but about the 5 cabs + king, I have no idea yet.
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BenRichards
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

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Hello,
Can you add me to this games alpha review?
I'd love to test out the game and report on any issues or bugs.

Thank you,
RunningRock
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by RunningRock »

Hello,
Can you add me to this games alpha review as well?

I love this game, and i would love to help finding bugs and improve this game

Thanks
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Brainchild
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by Brainchild »

My gaming group is so excited for this game! It's one of my all-time favourites. Will you please add the following players to the alpha?

shoopuffman
Galaxy_Heel
jbobcul
jmelliere
vilishnikov

Thank you for taking over the development!
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MeisterN81
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

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Can you please add to the test group:

JNGoku
reuzeman
DeDeken
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msoong
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

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My Friend Cloudy is a alpha tester, in order to play with him, can you add

msoong,
Dowsk38

to the alpha testing group? Thanks
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patrober
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by patrober »

How is the alpha progressing? I loved playing this game and eager to try it out once it makes it to beta!
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Volker78
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

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Publisher needs to do some reviewing (seems to take some time unfortunatly)
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Serinde_
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Re: El Grande now in alpha

Post by Serinde_ »

Oh I love this game, trying to playtest soon!
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