Kitty takes a walk
Iʻm still adding tactical choices to Pōpoki.
In early playtests, the roll of the dice led to very few choices to determine your fate.
So Iʻm making the akamai cards available on each turn after each roll is complete and your current journey is built. To me, that represents the pōpokiʻs ability to think through the situation and deflect some distress.
Otherwise, you roll the dice, your fate is sealed, and you move on. That’s not very fun or interesting.
Turn marker
Since pōpoki is able to avoid a lot more danger, however, it means the scores donʻt fall as low as they did in previous playtests, where you took five turns. So Iʻm increasing the number of turns to six.
Then I realized that matches the number of letters in pōpoki, and I could now have a figurine of a cat move from one letter to the next to mark turns. In Tabletop Simulator, I just made it a card stand with the silhouette of pōpoki.
I’m eventually going to release this as a free print-and-play game, but I will make a limited number of sets for friends.
Which begs the question: plastic 3D cat or wooden 2D cat?
Published Jan. 30, 2021.
