The game’s earliest maps supported 2-4 players. What is in a number? For My Little Scythe, it could mean everything if we’re talking player count. June 21, 2018: Player Count & the Map of Pomme (Hoby Chou) I hope you enjoy the tray as one of the many elements we provided in the hopes of creating a special My Little Scythe experience for you and your friends, family, and kids. Panda created a prototype of it, which we used to adjust a few compartments, and then it was time to produce them! We also created a little piece of paper to include in the game to show the order of the components in the box (and to assure people that even though parts of the tray are empty, they’re not missing any components–we left room for expansions. I revealed it to Hoby, who was quite excited to learn about it. Noah went back to the drawing board and created a 2-tray, 1-lid concept. Unfortunately, it costs a lot more to make a lot of little trays than it does to make 1 or 2 big trays, so we couldn’t proceed with that concept. They each had their own lid, and they sat on top of a bigger tray containing global components. It included a hexagonal tray containing the minis and tokens for each faction. The first version of the tray that Noah proposed was really cool. At the time, I kept it a secret from Hoby, as I wanted it to either be a pleasant surprise (if it worked out) or a non-factor (if it didn’t work out).

I also started to talk to Panda about the increase in cost and impact on the schedule. So I reached out to Noah to see if he was interested in working on it.

I think it helped that it’s a family-friendly game, just like My Little Scythe. And five, while they often look great, sometimes they don’t actually add that much functionality to the game.īut something clicked when I saw the custom trays in The Grimm Forest. Four, custom trays often require you to plan for expansions that don’t yet exist. Three, they can increase the cost/price of the game. Two, they can add time to the production schedule. One, they can make it difficult to fit everything into the box (the box is designed and quoted well before the insert can be created), particularly before punchboards are punched. While I admire Noah’s work and appreciate well-designed inserts in general, I’ve stayed away from them for various reasons. For a while Noah designed and produced custom trays as accessories he sold directly to consumers, but in the last year or so he’s shifted to designing inserts to be produced and included in the game box by the manufacturer.

The company that designed the insert is called Game Trayz, and it’s run by a friend of mine, Noah, whose home-office happens to be about 20 minutes from my home-office. Everything had a specific place, and it made the game easy to set up and clean up. Among the many beautiful components in it, I was awestruck by the custom insert. In January, I received my Kickstarter copy of The Grimm Forest. They are listed here in chronological order, with the most recent entry at the top. This is a compilation of the designer diary entries posted in the My Little Scythe Facebook group.

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