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DragonCon 2013: Interview with Chris Woods, Magical Creature

HexVault — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:07:12 +0000

Gwaer managed to catch up with Chris Woods immediately after the HexTCG PVE Design Panel. He got Chris to answer questions on the following topics (questions sourced from the HexTCG.com forums):

Whether or not PVE content would be retired over time
Health pools in raids and alternate loss conditions
Whether or not any equipment would be Bind on Equip (BOE)
Treasure chest contents
PVE progression

DragonCon 2013: HexTCG PVP Design Panel – YouTube

HexVault — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:51:09 +0000

Note: the images in the slide show at the top of this post are 4x the size of the ones I posted previously – higher quality card images FTW!

DragonCon 2013: HexTCG PVE Design Panel

HexVault — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:30:40 +0000

The DragonCon 2013 HexTCG PVE Design panel featured Cory Jones (President & CCO, Cryptozoic), Chris Woods (Magical Creature, Cryptozoic), and Ben Stoll (Game Designer, Cryptozoic). I’ve posted the audio from the panel to SoundCloud. You’ll find quite a few PVE card spoilers (dungeon [Arena of Souls, Information Control] and raid [Vengeful Figment, Ruby Golem, Voodoo Doll, Gront's Favorite Pet]), a walkthrough of the plans for the “Junkyard Dog” dungeon, information about “Pudgington Hallow”, a spirited Q&A session, and much more!

You can also see all of the slides (thanks, Cory!) Chris talked to in the slideshow above this blog entry – they are displayed in the correct order starting with the HexTCG Key Art slide and ending with the HexTCG logo. Notably, compared to the PVP panel slides these are much less easier to follow without the context of the panel audio. In a day or two I’ll upload a video to YouTube marrying the audio and the presentation to make it even easier to follow along.

Key Discussion Topics (thanks Shadowelf and Stok3d!)

0:01:50 Interface of PVE (Junkyard Dungeon)
0:06:45 Dungeon Rewards
0:07:05 PVE Set of Cards
0:10:05 PVE/PVP Format
0:10:48 Verdingo Hunt Dungeon
0:12:48 Dungeon That Feels Like Draft
0:13:18 Raids
0:13:48 10-11x Raids At This Point
0:15:25 Raid Rewards
0:16:30 72x Raid Rewards
0:17:30 Assigning Roles in Raids
0:18:00 Raids 3 Stage Format
0:19:50 Equipment System
0:21:50 Rarity of Equipment
0:22:47 Equipment Will be Affecting All Copies of a Card
0:23:02 Equipment Sets and Set Bonuses
0:26:10 Mercenaries and Champions
0:30:50 World’s Interface
0:33:00 Faction’s Interaction
0:34:10 Raid’s Rewards
0:35:28 Keeps
0:36:30 Can I Respec My Champion?
0:37:20 Daily Quests
0:39:15 Phantom Versions of Cards
0:40:11 Interaction Between Players in Raids
0:41:55 PVP/PVE Cards
0:42:25 Doubleback System
0:45:30 Dual-Specs
0:46:10 Griefers
0:48:45 AI-Reoccuring Villains
0:50:50 Can I Save and Name Decks?
0:51:20 PVE Expansion Policy
0:56:20 Sideboarding Between Dungeons/Raids
0:57:18 Economy
0:59:15 Does PVE Scale With Starters?

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DragonCon 2013: HexTCG PVP Design Panel

HexVault — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:07:21 +0000

The DragonCon 2013 HexTCG PVP Design panel featured Cory Jones (President & CCO, Cryptozoic), Ben Stoll (Game Designer [PVP Lead], Cryptozoic), and Chris Woods (Magical Creature, Cryptozoic). I’ve posted the RAW and UNEDITED audio from the panel to SoundCloud. You’ll find quite a few card spoilers, and lots of new info about CZE’s plan for the game, including the news that Alpha will last for “months” before it switches to Beta (rather than the oft-repeated “3 weeks” comment that Cory made during the Kickstarter).

You can also see all of the slides (thanks, Cory!) Cory and Ben talked to in the slideshow above this blog entry – they are displayed in the correct order starting with the HexTCG Key Art slide and ending with the HexTCG logo. Sometime tomorrow I’ll upload a video to YouTube marrying the audio and the presentation to make it even easier to follow along.

After the panel I had the chance to catch up with Cory. He provided a couple of additional interesting tidbits. There are well over 20K backers at this point with more than 14K unique – that’s definitely higher than I thought given our perception of how many multi-pledgers there were. Also, Alpha access will be granted in phases. However, there won’t be an appreciable time difference (no more than a couple of days) between the different phases. They’re still working out the details on who gets slightly earlier access – some combination of level of Kickstarter tier and when you made your pledge most likely.

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Audio Highlights (thanks, Shadowelf!)

0:00:50 No 3D World
0:01:45 AIDA
0:05:35 Sets Balanced Around Draft
0:12:38 Set 1
0:24:55 Shard of Fate
0:28:40 Gem Socketing
0:31:15 Transformation
0:36:05 Alpha end of September
0:36:10 4x every card in Alpha
0:36:32 Beta Several Months After Alpha
0:39:05 Policy/Plans of Banning/Nerfing
0:41:15 Emulating Print Sheets
0:42:00 Boxes-RNG
0:43:50 Differences With MTG (Resource System)
0:48:00 Tournaments (Hobby Retailers)
0:55:50 Security
0:58:35 Tablets

DragonCon 2013: Kickstarting Videogames Panel

HexVault — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 14:26:06 +0000

The DragonCon 2013 Kickstarting Videogames panel (AKA “How we Kickstarted Hex with special guest star Chris Avellone”) featured Cory Jones (President & CCO, Cryptozoic), Chris Woods (Magical Creature, Cryptozoic), Ben Stoll (Game Designer, Cryptozoic), Chris Avellone (Creative Director, Obsidian Entertainment), and Chris Polk. I’ve posted the the RAW and UNEDITED audio from the panel to SoundCloud. No HexTCG card spoilers or new information, but worth a listen to relive the first 30 days or so of HexTCG’s introduction to the world through Kickstarter, explore the teams’ motivations, and get their views on their relationship with their backers.

I’ll create an edited version later in the week with just the HexTCG Kickstarter-related questions and comments!

DragonCon 2013: MMO Design 101 Panel (featuring Cory Jones)

HexVault — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:30:41 +0000

Luckily I got my DragonCon 2013 badge in time to make it to the MMO Design 101 Panel featuring Cory (as well as Eric Bakutis [Game Designer, Elder Scroll Online], Jonathan LeCraft [Senior Game Designer, WoW], and Alex Mayberry [Lead Producer, Diablo III]). I’ve posted the the RAW and UNEDITED audio from the panel to SoundCloud. It’s not necessarily specific to HexTCG, but there are a couple of interesting points made by Cory that definitely relate to HexTCG.

DragonCon 2013: MMO Design Panel

I’ll create an edited version later in the week with just Cory’s HexTCG-related soundbites!

Hex Vault is at DragonCon 2013!

HexVault — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:31:58 +0000

Hex Vault is at DragonCon! I’m planning to post interviews with the CZE folks, audio recordings of the Hex-related panels (MMO Design, Kickstarter, PVP, and PVP), and anything else that
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