Just a small portion to whet my appetite! Can't wait to see the full version.

edit: Will we get to see the full version at UK Expo?

Artist is working hard now.

Who is he/she? Known from other games?

I'm the artist and my name is Andreas Resch.I've done "Tinners' Trail" and "Chelsea" for JKLM before. I've also made quite some freebies for the Austrian Game Museum as well as supportive art for other games. I'm still new to the business and will work hard to deliver good results and get better over time.

I'm just sitting on the final areas of the map for "Great Fire" and hope that you will all like it once it's done. I can tell you, there are a LOT of houses on it

Er ... what are these double-coloured connections? Cannot remember from playing the prototype, what these could represent ...

I was also wondering about those...

Those weren't on the prototype, I would guess that they indicate the direction of possible fire expansion, looks like North/South are Blue/Red with East/West as Green/Orange. Presumably the fire expansion cards are similarly colour coded.

Sounds reasonable. But why two colours per connection? This would only make sense, if they were directed like arrows.

Anyway - looking forward for the rest of the art, pictures in action from the Games Expo (hopefully!) and the upcoming "Photo Contest List".

Hello!

You're right. The colored bars indicate the direction of fire expansion. Unlike in this preview the bars will be triangular shaped indicating the direction as well. As opposite directions are differently colored on the compass I have to use both colors to avoid misunderstandings. Can't think of any other way right now.

Here's an image of the compass (upper left corner of the board) to illustrate the topic (the orange will go a little more towards yellow in the final version). If you have any other idea on how to visualize the north/south and east/west connections, let me know. It's still time to implement this.



Cheers,
Andreas

Please remember there are color blind/challenged persons who want to buy the game.

If you are going to have colors, perhaps you can have patterns associated with that color or at least colors that are not even close to each other.

There are too many games out there where we color challenged people have to really strain to differentiate between the colors.