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DESOTER - Playtesting with pals!

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 Bit of a different post! This one is talking about one of my older games, Desoter, and the recent playtest I completed :).  A brief intro, what is Desoter? Desoter is a desert archeology game in which you explore the mysterious history of the desert planet Desoter, whilst traversing the rocky political climate of its inhabitants. It is a game that has two main storylines that intertwine with each other. One investigates the disappearance of Desoter's ancient civilization, the other seeks to tear down the corrupt senate of Desoter and free the sands to their rightful people. It combines a sort of Indiana Jones vibe with the serious political climate of Dune .  Originally I made Desoter for my final year college project surrounding the theme of "discovery", its gone through a lot of changes since then, and has even more changes on its horizon.  Here's a little comparison of one of the main NPC's designs from college to university! So, What made me want to playtest...
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Reaching Apoapsis - Visiting the local Observatory [Plus some extra notes!]

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 Sherwood Observatory- The other day I took a trip to Sherwood Observatory again to go see one of their newest planetarium shows. I absolutely love visiting the observatory, its so interesting to not only see their exhibit, but get up close with real astronomical equipment. Granted, I haven't been on the full tour yet [though i intend to when it gets to the darker months!] but regardless I got to see a lot of really cool stuff that definitely has given me some ideas for Apoapsis. For example, I definitely want to do a drawing of the communications base on Gliese 65's exoplanet, i imagine it would be quite small like Sherwood observatory as it would all need to be packed into a little space shuttle that travels from the Apoapsis to the base on Gliese. It would definitely mean me dipping back into 3D modelling again - which now that I think about it my Maya license may  have expired... so it may well be time for me to try out Blender which I have been meaning to do for a while. ...
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Reaching Apoapsis - Formatting and switching to Affinity

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  A big change I made for Reaching Apoapsis was switching formatting software from Scribus to Affinity. Previously, pretty much all of our projects were formatted by Francis as he was the most proficient of the two of us in Scribus [I gave it a go for my capstone project and just could not get a grasp of the UI]. I always kinda wanted to try out formatting for myself but always had some trouble, i was meaning to make the switch a while ago but never did. No idea why??? Switching over to Affinity has been like a breath of fresh air, I love the UI and how easy it is to actually navigate. Also, if for some reason I need to look up something, I don't have to go searching on 10+ year old forum pages which probably don't even have the answer to the specific question I'm looking for. I've been a little bit more ambitious than usual now that I can try out formatting myself and don't have to force poor Francis to work to my vague/nonsensical descriptions of how I would like ...
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