My original thought was that creating Warfighter: Fantasy would be easy.
about 2 years ago
– Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 02:00:59 AM
Really easy.
After all, a dungeon crawl is just like a Warfighter mission: start at point "A", move through areas overcoming hostiles, arrive at the objective at point "B", and defeat the big bad guy.
I figured it would take only a few months. It has taken 18 months. Those 18 months have been filled with weekly playtesting, many wrong directions in design , and much power balancing. All the while making sure the system was compatible with the other eras of Warfighter so people could take their soldiers back and forth. All while designing a new campaign system that will not only be the Fantasy campaign system, but the base campaign system for all Warfighter campaigns going forward.
It would have been far easier 18 months ago to see that the product wasn't great, but good enough, and released it anyway. People would have received it, said it was okay, but not great, and it would have soon disappeared into the past. That would have saved DVG literally thousands of hours of employee time and paid labor amounting to many tens of thousands of dollars in expenses. We didn't do that.
Along with all our daily tasks, we have been working on Fantasy in the background for 18 months making the best game possible. After 18 months we are proud of our efforts.
We have a fun dungeon crawl system that gives players full control over character generation and equipping, a wide variety of exciting adventures and hostiles, and engaging one-shot mission and campaign systems, as well as a system that will explore all kinds of new heroes, adventures, hostiles, and treasures in the future.
No one has wanted this game to be finished more than us at DVG. I assure you. But, we have built our reputation by producing quality products. You expect our games to be of the highest quality, and so do we. Warfighter Fantasy will live up to that high standard.
Dan Verssen
Warfighter Fantasy: Plumeria Core Set Rules Testing Done!
about 2 years ago
– Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:41:12 PM
Hi all! I wanted to share more news about the ongoing development of Warfighter Fantasy: Plumeria.
We are finally happy with how the Core Set is running. As mentioned before, this is a project very close to DVG's heart and we really just want to get this right! It is with a happy heart that I can share that the testing for the Core Set is finally complete. As you may, or may not, be aware, this isn't just a "re-skin" of our previous Warfighter products. A LOT of development was required to make this work right - on top of getting it to work properly across the different eras of Warfighter as we promised.
We are definitely closer to getting this to the printers and are very excited to get to this phase of the journey. At some point after we put the expansions to bed (perhaps sooner), we'll shoot some video to give you an idea of what you should be expecting. The art has already been completed and we have processes in place to keep card creation output at a fast clip once all the rules tweaks for the expansions are set.
We're working on communicating to our kickstarter backers more. If you're on Facebook, please look into joining the DVG group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/348532516023. There's often very spirited conversation regarding our various projects there.
Thank you again for your continued patience. Keep rolling those tens and sixes.
Just a little message to our friends and backers
about 2 years ago
– Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 03:42:47 PM
Hi everybody. I realize that everyone's getting very frustrated at the delays here.
There definitely have been development setbacks due to the tweaking of mechanics and especially how it's going to interact with the rest of the line.
Can our communication be better? Absolutely. We're working on it. DVG is a small five-person company. We have outside designers we work with, of course. But we are looking to expand our internal support team.
Most of our man hours are spent in development, playtesting, and the processing of warehouse orders to various distributors and customers.
Warfighter Fantasy is late. It absolutely is.
But Lanzerath Ridge is at the printers. Spruance Leader, North Africa, and MTO will be right behind it.
Warfighter Fantasy has been in the works for almost 25 years. It's very close to our hearts and we want to make sure it's just right.
Again, we are all sorry about the delays. Nobody wants this out there more than we do. Hang in there.
Your DVG team.
Update
about 2 years ago
– Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 01:00:14 AM
We have been playing every day. The good news is, we have revamped the campaign system to make it more streamlined. The tactical combat system seems to be smoothed out. Slowly but surely we are getting there!
Update
over 2 years ago
– Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:36:30 AM
We continue to work on Fantasy each day. I apologize for the delay, but we want to make sure everything is perfect.
