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jhyam

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It's good enough, honestly!

The PnP for Palm Island was similar in that it didn't include all of the cards (or color). In any case, it should be good enough for solo play. 

BTW, Kosterix, I just want to express my gratitude that you've offered this version at such a reasonable cost (it makes sense it's what it is since you took the time to color it in, but at the same time you don't want to charge too much for a game you didn't make). In my situation, I only have a grayscale printer so it mattered not whether it was colored in at all, BUT I will agree with you that the art was lacking. 

Don't get me wrong, the ART ISN'T BAD, it's just the colors were really loud throughout the entire card. There's a lot going on in the cards and giving the background and foreground the same color attention is a lot for me to visually process. Looking at screenshots of the game, I notice there is a light white 'aura' around the icons of interest, but it would have been better to just done down the entire background instead of going all in like the artist did. 

After further research, it looks like the art direction was influenced by another game called CoLab and the designer wanted to keep the characters the same between both games. In any case, the more information is packed onto a card, the more attention the card needs in the UI/UX department. 

Anyway, thanks again Kosterix! I'm a very happy camper with your minimalist version!

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I don't think it was ever picked up by a publisher.


EDIT: Nevermind, there's something going on here: Publishing Galdor's Grip: Bad News, Good News | BoardGameGeek

Any updates?

Well if this is the case, then I'm glad I made some noise! I definitely want to experience the game in its entirety as intended by the designer. 

As for a B+W version, I can say that, as someone with only a grayscale/B+W printer, the cards do come through okay in general. This is thanks to the design of the card being minimalistic and words such as "necessary" and "harder" being easily discernible. 

The only place where my printer struggled is printing out the card backs for the seeds. I could tell my printer was straining to print the solid black consistently. I thought I could make up for some of the deficiencies by going at it with a black color pencil, but as you can see on two of the cards at the bottom, it does NOT make the situation better (lol).

Looking forward to printing the new version so that I can have a complete set! Would also like to see improvements for grayscale printing if you can manage it (but don't stress yourself over it if you can't). 

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Minor issue: on the Game Contents card, it lists that there are 15 White Plant Cards and 15 White Seed Cards. Well, there are actually just 14 White Seed Cards in the PnP. It's not a big typo all things considered, but it did make me freak out about misplacing a card for a good couple of hours until I finally cross-referenced each prepared card with the PDF file.

Thanks, David!