Drentsoft Games Ltd

25/07/2025

Our latest newsletter is out! Talking about choices for the Domino City game board and sponsoring Protospiel Online!

In the last issue, I mentioned adding a lighter alternative mode to the game. It’s designed to remove the mental load of choosing in which regions to invest, by giving players cards that pre-assign regions. One option would be to have cards just name a region such as C1 (column 1) R4 (row 4) but f...

15/07/2025

Domino City is a domino stacking investment game. There are currently two game modes in testing.
A light weight basic mode for young kids and less experienced gamers.
The "standard" mode where players can choose their investments using cubes.
The board has indents for the dominoes and cubes but the basic version needs symbols that don't fit nicely inside the indents.
Would you prefer:
1- A 3 layer board with indents for the dominoes and cubes on one side and an indent for the dominoes only on the other side.
2 - Two dual layer boards, one with both sets of indents and one with just the indent for the dominoes
3 - A single dual layer board with only an indent for the dominoes, the cubes will just sit on the symbols.

24/05/2024

We recently made a small domino game for The Game Crafter That Cool Stock Part Challenge. The game uses dominoes as troops in a war between two nations. You can play the game for free on screentop https://screentop.gg//Kingdom-Or-Bust It would be very much appreciated if you would consider voting for Kingdom or Bust in the contest! https://www.thegamecrafter.com/contests/that-cool-stock-part-challenge

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07/02/2024

If you like push your luck bluffing card games set at Medieval feasts you can sign up to be notified when A Taste for the King 👑 goes live on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drentsoftgames/a-taste-for-the-king

A Taste for the King is a bluffing dish collecting card game. Risk your luck with up to 7 friends and compete to take the crown!

16/06/2023

Updated the print and play cover image with more playtest badges. A Taste for the King has been playtested at Protospiel Online, Break My Game, Board Game Designers Online and Playtest UK at UKGE! Looking for more online and local venues to test the game.

07/02/2023

17/06/2022

Currently streaming some Godot Wild Jam game development on https://twitch.tv/DrentsoftGames. If you want to see a 3D game being made in realtime, come hang out!

01/06/2022

Going to UKGE on Friday, going to be play-testing A Taste for the King. If you're going, stop by and have a go!
A Taste for the King is a push your luck card game set at a Medieval feast! 👑
https://mailchi.mp/61fcbd07c33d/a-taste-for-the-king-news

18/05/2022

Going live with some on https://twitch.tv/DrentsoftGames Trying to simulate gameplay results. Come hang.

17/05/2022

A Taste for the King has been play tested at Protospiel and Break My Game.

17/05/2022

Recently I attended Protospiel Online April 2022 with A Taste for the King. The game had two very quick revisions during the weekend based on player feedback. The second revision refined the idea of indicators on the card back but removed the traffic light design, instead favouring indicating one of the five courses on each card. Obviously dishes are labelled correctly but poisons and actions are labelled in a such a way as to increase treachery.
(See previous post for the first revision https://www.facebook.com/DrentsoftGames/posts/125859473418065).

The game still needs some tweaking, there are additional cards that could be implemented to maximise production efficiency but this can't come at the cost of slowing down the game or making it too hard to win so further testing is needed.

You can read the details about the weekend experience on the Drentsoft Games blog https://drentsoftgames.com/updates-after-protospiel-online-april-2022-edition/

Feel free to join the Drentsoft Games Discord https://discord.gg/CQCqtUp6 where we can discuss games, development or even arrange an online play test of the game.

17/05/2022

Recently I attended Protospiel Online April 2022 with A Taste for the King. The game had two very quick revisions during the weekend based on player feedback.
The first was to add indicators to the backs of the cards to give people a little more informed decision on discards. The original design used a traffic light system, however this turned out to be much too easy to break.

You can read the details about the weekend experience on the Drentsoft Games blog https://drentsoftgames.com/updates-after-protospiel-online-april-2022-edition/

Feel free to join the Drentsoft Games Discord https://discord.gg/CQCqtUp6 where we can discuss games, development or even arrange an online play test of the game.