Mint Tin Games listed at BoardGameGeek
Another milestone for Mint Tin Pirates and Mint Tin Aliens (MTP and MTA?) – they just became listed in the BoardGameGeek database!
w00t! =D
BoardGameGeek is my Go To source for just about anything and everything board game related. From deciding what games to buy for our family to learning what other game designers are doing and how they’re doing it.
That last bit – how they’re doing it – has been invaluable in developing these little games. The wealth of knowledge and resources are staggering – from die-cut chipboard to custom dice to writing rules.
But . . . now that both of these games are listed, I’m also stressing out! o_O
This is where the rubber meets the road (or the dice roll off the table!) because ratings can now happen and I know that I tend to view those as the gospel when looking for games to buy.
I’ve just uploaded photos (mainly ones already here on the blog) and those have yet to be approved but, overall, this is an exciting milestone. =)
As new games, they have a rating of 0.00 out of 10, so I guess that only means they can go up from here! =D
BGG links -> Mint Tin Pirates | Mint Tin Aliens
BoardGameGeek, typos, and rules
Thanks to BoardGameGeek, a typo and an incorrect word were discovered this morning for the instructions to Mint Tin Aliens.
A professional editor worked on the rules but that doesn’t mean I can type them in Illustrator without making a mistake! *doh!*
Emile from BGG requested more complete rules be included for the Mint Tin Game database entries so I typed them directly from the instructions printed on the game cards. Those errors could have conceivably made it all the way to the actual Kickstarter Edition of the games and I would have been devastated (well, I wouldn’t have approved of my sloppiness). =p
This also gives me the impetus to create the online versions of the instructions as suggested by Erin of The Geeky Gimp (thanks Erin!).
Online instructions that can be read by a text reader (30 million adult Americans can’t read) and a PDF version extend the accessibility to these games.
Stay tuned – Kickstarter launches September 30th! =)
