Father, artist. Game designer. Indie publisher. Vintage kicks & custom keebs. Founder / Creative Director at @_QualityBeast / @QualityBeastDE. (he/him)
Berlin, Germany
Joined August 2008
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It's surreal to share this news, but there's no better day than on my birthday! Big shout out to @CardboardTruth over at @AllplayHQ for the trust and belief in the game for so many years, in the past and into the future! #SeizeTheBean
We’ve got big news to share regarding the long-awaited release of Seize the Bean 2nd Edition. Have a look at our release video...
📺 YouTube Video: youtu.be/8nLgCnzmav8
This looks amazing. 🤩
We wanted our deckbuilder to feel like a living graphic novel, so everything in it is hand-animated ✍️💫
#indiegames #gamedev #animation
With the arrival of May - and good weather here in Berlin - I have to catch y’all up on our dev activities from the last month!
The old theme was about fruits. The new theme is about books, specifically the street libraries of Berlin. This new direction wil guide art & our mini-expansions. Here’s another photo that more clearly shows the first version of Jeroen’s mini “goals” expansion we’re developing.
ALT Photo of Jeroen Geenen's Cherry Picking, with some prototype cards mixed in.
Spring is here in Berlin, bringing with it cherry blossoms, and I love them. 🌸
ALT Photo of cherry blossoms on a branch against a blue sky.
🌞At the end of last week we were back testing #TowersOfTheSun.
✂️We had some prototyping to do in order to compare and contrast the version from Allplay’s dev team with our original turned in ruleset.
ALT Photo of a board game prototype of Towers of the Sun by Quality Beast.
📝Our testing is focused on the vanilla base game for now. There is expansion content but we’ll get to that later. We agree w/ many of the areas they’d like to improve, so we're mostly evaluating the solutions they’ve proposed, seeing if they match the game’s OG (& new) vision.
ALT Photo of a board game prototype of Towers of the Sun by Quality Beast.
We won’t go into the specific rules and details now, but if that’s something you’re interested in don’t be shy to reach out to become a playtester as we’ll be playing a lot of Towers throughout April!
playtest.qualitybeast.com/
I was back to the physical #DragonEyes prototype over the weekend, continuing testing of Tim’s new, definitive ruleset. Here you can see the temporary prototype colors, before we begin experimenting with different paints to showcase the treasure’s more thematic colors.
ALT Prototype stones from the Quality Beast board game, Dragon Eyes.
I won’t share all the potential rules changes here in this short update, but we’re testing some different selection rules for what you can take when you pull stones from the bag, along with a variety of different scoring and player elimination changes.
ALT Image of the prototype version of Dragon Eyes, a board game by Tim Bosje and Quality Beast.
Friday saw us wrapping up the week by diving into our second round review of Allplay's development changes on #TowersOfTheSun...
We began by reviewing their card tweaks & prepping them for use in our internal testing TTS mod. The cards in Towers are meant to be simple, & the current dev changes try to keep that while also striving to better incentivize fights & marge cardplay more into the spatial puzzle.
