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The Disagreement
This illustration of pirates getting all stabby and shooty was created for the Sons of the Singularity book Between the Devil and the Deep, an RPG setting in the 17th century Caribbean. Multi-figure illustrations are always hard and fights should be chaotic, so this was a two-fold challenge for me, especially since the publisher was rather specific about weaponry. The map is not of any real place but was created just for this purpose.
Brawl: A Brawl of Fire and Ice
First Ran: July 25th, 2018
Rules: Constructed Deck. Solo PVE. Fight Ragnaros the Fire Lord and Ahune the Frost Lord, they are fighting over who gets to the be boss and keep shoving each other out of the way.
Player Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSEYgVLsCYM
Background: For Fire Festival that year I really wanted to have a big fight between Ragnaros and Ahune as they were antagonists the previous, each hosting their own Festival. I wanted to bring back that rivalry in a different way. Ahune had been pushed out and was trying to force his way back in by being way too friendly, all of his dialogue is like “oh we’re such good friends Ragnaros!” “WE ARE NOT FRIENDS!!!” Was a lot of fun to develop this dynamic. I think I learned more about balancing for single player from this brawl than any other. I wanted players to get through 2 60 health pools and have them feel like threats, it all started much harder than I intended but through iteration I brought them back down to a more reasonable difficulty.
Successes:
+ Players enjoyed the difficulty, lots of positive feedback about the challenge of it all
+ Players enjoyed the VO lines, brought a lot of flavor to the encounter
+ The theming of it came through very strong
Lessons Learned:
- Single player content is always pretty complicated to develop, with multiplayer it’s easier to just make things symmetrical. Here you have to really build out the enemies in a different way. Always account for more development time for balance with these.
- Feels like a hard brawl to repeat, it wouldn’t feel functionally different just new cards that could possibly trivialize the encounter.
Brawl: A Less Friendly Game of Chess
First Ran: June 27 th, 2018
Rules: Constructed Deck (6 cards). An update to the classic Chess Brawl and mission from the One Night in Karazhan adventure. Your 6 cards are effectively your “cheat” cards and can change the board dramatically.
Player Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H09O0zfaVc0
Background: I work a lot with Pat Nagle, famous Blizzard designer and my boss. He created the original Chess event in World of Warcraft in the Karazhan dungeon, he also created the Hearthstone variant. In some random meeting he blurts out “We should make chess where you can build your deck!” and I went out and implemented it. Decided to keep it fairly limited so that it plays mostly like normal Chess and it makes those few cards more impactful. It really didn’t go through many iterations, one of those rare brawls that just works.
Successes:
+ Players enjoyed the strategy of choosing cards, it developed its own meta.
+ Players thought it was cool to revisit older brawls with new twists like this
+ Was very easy and straightforward to implement
Lessons Learned:
- Players always expect the minions to do damage equal to their atk and were disappointed when they realize buffing the minions did very little.
- Similar to the previous point a lot of card mechanics simply weren’t built to support interacting with Chess, there wasn’t anything overpowered but there were more than a few instances where players were confused by the behavior
Key Cards; Minstrel / bonemare / fungel / spirit of the shark - there are alot of different decks around this core cards on hearthpwn. Had to much fun with 1...
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Hearthstone Tavern Brawl The Void Singularity Small
