Goblin Grand Prix

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    ThreadbareConnor Well-Known Member

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    #1 ThreadbareConnor, Jul 12, 2013
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    What's The Game?

    -Goblin Grand Prix (GGP) is an asynchronous turn-based multiplayer iOS game (for iPads and iPhones), inspired by the classic board game RoboRally!

    Goblin Grand Prix is a multiplayer iOS game inspired by the classic board game RoboRally. You are a goblin, manager and pilot of a golem racing team. Each turn, you and the other players will simultaneously plan your actions. You'll secretly plot where you want your golem to go, step-by-step and move-by-move, until you've given it 5 sequential commands. After all players have finished their planning phase, the turn is played out and the game shows you what happened when all the players' moves came together. Did your carefully laid plans get you closer to victory, or did you get shoved off course by an opponent and end up stuck in a corner? Or even worse, did you miscalculate your plan and pilot your golem right into a bottomless pit?

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    How It All Began - The World of GGP

    From the shining golden kingdoms of Men to the glamoured fey forests of the Elves, the world of Oxnard is populated with fantastic places and races. Majestic dragons circle impossibly tall mountain peaks, Dwarven vigorsmiths imbue mystical life into fantastic stone golems, and Noble Orcs ride mighty steeds across sprawling plains.


    Then there’s the Goblins... Scrawny, short and bug-eyed, living in hovels and caves, collecting junk and cobbling it together into harebrained contraptions. The “more civilized” races may look on them with open disdain, but only the uniquely Goblin combination of freeloading, improvisation and ingenuity could’ve come up with the Goblin Grand Prix.


    The moment an enterprising goblin found a couple of shabby, haggard golems in a trash heap, then strapped weapons to them and made them fight, history was made.

    Now, big corporate money flows into the hometown of the GGP, and the Goblins spend it on crazier arenas, wilder golems, bigger fireballs, and anything else they can think of to cause the most chaos.

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    Maps
    We're also developing a bunch of different map styles and themes for the game...

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    Risks and challenges

    We've done an acclaimed single-player game (Shifts) that's gotten solid reviews from places like PocketTactics and BoardGame Geek. We've never done a multiplayer game as a team before, and multiplayer development always takes a little longer than you think it should. It's not an insurmountable technological hurdle, but it is a challenge, and it will require us to do a bit of technical learning to get the product the way we want it to function. We're also a pretty young team, with a lot of big ambitions, but we're designing this to make sure we have a shippable product that you (and we!) will want to play. Assuming the game does decently, we will continue to generate additional content for the game post-launch, but like all games, there's some risk involved there, as discovery is always a challenge. That said, we're dedicated to the vision and idea of Goblin Grand Prix, and we really want to make the game a reality.

    But wait! There's more!

    Every Kickstarter backer will also get a copy of our first game, Shifts, for iPad, as part of their pledge! Our way of saying thanks!
    Donate!
     
  2. ThreadbareConnor

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    Almost at 3.5k

    Thank you backers!
     
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    Shifts update

    Submitted today. Waiting on approval.
     
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    This sounds quite interesting and after watching the vid it went from interesting to sounds like chaos when playing it :D
    Ill be keeping an eye on this as I like turn based stuff.
     
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    I'lll do my best to keep you updated
     
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    #6 ThreadbareConnor, Jul 18, 2013
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    If you round up

    We are at 4.5k on our Kickstarter for Goblin Grand Prix. Thank you donors! If your based in the bay area we are having a game night next Thursday from 6:30 to about 11. Drop by and meet the team.
    Get your free tickets HERE!
     
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    At 5k

    We have hit the 5 thousand dollar mark for the Kickstarter. Thank you donors! In other news, our first game Shifts is free on the app store for the next week. grab your copy while you can!
     
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    Almost a third of the way to our goal thank you donors. We are really looking forward to completing this project and sharing it with the Ios gaming community.
     
  10. Game looks promising, shifts too was cool, let us know how things go.
     
  11. SpaceMammoth

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    This does look good, I love Robo-rally the board game and am a fan of turn based games.
     
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    Okay!

    I am a total board game and gamer nerd! This looks F***'in awesome! I am super pumped for this and the kickstarter video is brilliant!
     
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    Thanks for the support guys we are super stoked for it. Working on some power up tiles now for the maps.
     
  14. ThreadbareConnor

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    And we love you :p
     
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    Play testing the latest version of Goblin Grand Prix today! I'll post when we are done. :)
     
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    What do you think of adding a deck building CCG aspect to Goblin Grand Prix so that it plays like Magic Crossed with Robo Rally?
     
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    Just to be clear we would not be using any mechanic from Magic. Just the deck building aspect to give people some more customization.
     
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    It looks like we are leaning towards building a deck for each class. How do people feel about team-play.
     
  19. Yeah, looking at the kickstarter video, and it looks nice.
     
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    Thanks guys! I should have a splash page later today for you all to look at.
     

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