I'm pulling out of the parking lot.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

And it dropped off my son at camp.

Okay, so the last two podcasts, I've been talking about the design and development of Ixelon.

Okay, so when the last we left off our story, Ken Nagel, so Ken Nagel and I were the co-designors, code lead designers of Ixelon. So we worked on

for a year. First six months, I had the reins. Second six months, Ken had the reins. And then

we handed it off to Sam Stoddard and Eric Lauer. So they could develop it.

So now we're going to talk about development.

Okay, so when Ken handed off the file,

Explorer was in the set.

The double-faced lands,

you know, the non-lands that turn into land,

the treasure map becomes the area with the treasure.

And we had vehicles.

But we did not have a dinosaur mechanic or a pirate mechanic.

We had slots for them.

We decided in the end, in order to sort of stay within our... We were trying other than the deciduous mechanics, so not counting transform or crew.

We were trying to stay at three mechanics.

We liked the idea of explore as a general mechanic that helps smooth things.

And then Ken had made the conclusion that we wanted to have a dinosaur mechanic and have a pirate mechanic.

And the idea was that both vampires and Murpholk would have a theme.

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