{"id":79,"date":"2016-08-12T23:32:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-08-12T23:37:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T04:37:01","slug":"more-bolster-playtesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/2016\/08\/more-bolster-playtesting\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bolster Playtesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some really great feedback from <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgamedesigner\/37823\/eric-jome\">Eric Jome<\/a>, at a monthly playtesting meetup, I updated some of the rules on the website and subsequent plays. \u00a0Originally, the goal was to eliminate the highest ranking piece with a strength of 4. \u00a0The 4 rank piece has been eliminated, and the object is now to eliminate all 3, 3 rank pieces to win the game. \u00a0After the 2nd 3 rank piece is eliminated, the &#8220;losing&#8221; player must remove one of his own pieces from the board after each turn. \u00a0We also eliminated the\u00a00 rank pieces, although I&#8217;m still tossing around the idea of a variant rule with these 0 rank pieces. \u00a0Reducing the type of pieces from 5 unique shapes to only 3\u00a0AND\u00a0reducing the pieces from 48\u00a0to only 32\u00a0(while maintaining the integrity of the game) will reduce cost, complexity, and length of play. \u00a0Great feedback that was critical in shaping the future of the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; 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padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A photo posted by Oakheart Games (@oakheartgames) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-13T03:09:45+00:00\">Jun 12, 2016 at 8:09pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some really great feedback from Eric Jome, at a monthly playtesting meetup, I updated some of the rules on the website and subsequent plays. \u00a0Originally, the goal was to eliminate the highest ranking piece with a strength of 4. \u00a0The 4 rank piece has been eliminated, and the object is now to eliminate all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[11,28,5,27,15],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2-player","tag-bolster","tag-played","tag-prototypes","tag-strategy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakheartgames.com\/boardgames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}