Insights: The Curse (Building a New Deck)

James Ernest explains the daily challenges of tabletop game design in the "Insights" series. In this video, James explains his method for fine-tuning a custom deck for a simple bluffing card game.

The project is The Curse of Poppy Hollow, an update of a classic Pairs game called Cursed Hand. Is the Pairs deck the perfect choice for these mechanics? That's the question on the table.

James has been testing various recipes for this deck, and today he is building new artwork, printing new cards, and getting ready for the next playtest, almost but not quite exactly where he started.

Read more about James Ernest and his other games at Crab Fragment Labs:

https://crabfragmentlabs.com/