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Hello friends,
We've just begun our campaign to print our latest expansion! Marrying Mr. Darcy: the Emma Expansion is now LIVE on Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1898617831/marrying-mr-...
Any support including pledges and social media buzz is greatly appreciated! Hope you'll check it out.
Marrying Mr. Darcy: the Pride and Prejudice Card Game
My design blog for my new card game.
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Thu Jul 9, 2015 8:51 pm
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Hello Marrying Mr. Darcy fans!
If you are interested in trying our latest beta-test of the upcoming Emma Expansion, you can get a free print and play download here: http://www.marryingmrdarcy.com/downloads.html
We've just started the art, so you'll see it is very unfinished in appearance, but we've tightened up the gameplay significantly. If you end up playing it, we'd love to hear your feedback. You will need Marrying Mr. Darcy in order to play the expansion.
If any of you are super serious about testing, I do have an extra printed testing version I'd be willing to mail to you (US only please) if you were willing to try a couple sessions and send us some feedback. Message me if you are interested!
I'm hoping to launch a Kickstarter once we are back in stock with MMD (THIRD PRINT RUN!) around May or so to print the expansion.
Erika.
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Happy birthday Jane Austen! To celebrate, the Marrying Mr. Darcy PDF Print and Play is 50% off the rest of this week. Just follow this link to buy for just $3.50!
https://sellfy.com/p/mtUJ/-JANESBIRTHDAY/
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The Morning News had an article written by Matthew Baldwin with some recommendations for good gift games this year! Marrying Mr. Darcy made the list, along with:
Splendor
Machi Koro
Concept
Tokaido
Star Realms
Terror in Meeple City
Camel Up
Mascarade
Quantum
Check out the full article here: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-2014-good-gift-gam...
I hope you'll consider Marrying Mr. Darcy in you holiday gaming and giving plans!
Wed Dec 3, 2014 10:07 pm
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Had a really nice review by Geek Dad who really got the point of the mechanics and game play.
"In the end, though, maybe Marrying Mr. Darcy isn’t so much about the final outcome as it is about the interactions and reactions to the events. As the female characters in Jane Austen’s novel, you have dreams and aspirations but you’re also bound by social conventions and societal norms. The outcome of the game won’t always match up with the plot of the novel, but when it ends you’ll have a fun story to tell."
Read the rest here, along with a review of Lords and Ladies! http://geekdad.com/2014/11/polite-society-games/
Sun Nov 16, 2014 4:58 pm
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islaythedragon did a really thorough review! They checked out the base game, Undead expansion, AND some of the rule variations!
"Marrying Mr. Darcy is a great fun and light strategy game that both fans and non-fans alike can enjoy. The theme is delightful and carries well throughout the game and artwork. It is strategic in that there are many ways to win, and even if you don’t manage to get married you can still accumulate enough points to pull off a victory!"
Check out the full review here: http://islaythedragon.com/featured/its-a-nice-day-for-a-whit...
Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:41 pm
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I just returned home from a long vacation visiting my husband's family and our friends who live in New Hampshire. I managed to bring the completed Alpha test of the Emma expansion along and got in a couple 2 and 4 player testing sessions thanks to my husband Erik Evensen, and friends Matt Talbot and Jen Omand.
Things went ok and we had a fun time, but there were definitely some issues. Matt played as Mr. Woodhouse. His superpower lets him remove cards from the young ladies characters since he doesn't want anyone to get married and leave him to live alone in his old age. (This is a little out of canon character for him, but it was an idea I was running with.) He earns points for every lady who becomes an Old Maid at the end of the game. Mr. Woodhouse is WAY overpowered because he slaughtered everyone both times we played. We even adjusted the scoring rules for the second play through and Mr. W still ended up with a house full of Old Maid companions.
This may have also been due to the fact that there are currently only 4 Suitors in the game. (Mr. Martin, Mr. Elton, Frank Churchill, and Mr. Knightly) and all of them are fairly difficult to get. So the combination of difficult suitors, too few of them, and Mr. W being kind of a jerk basically ruined everyone's chances. So, some significant balance issues to work on.
Moving forward for the next iteration of the Alpha test. I'm planning on adding Anne Taylor as the 6th playable character and changing Mr. Woodhouse to 3 Event cards that occur in the deck, as opposed to being a playable character. I feel like his super power just messed with the mechanics too much, though he might be usable in a 6 player game?? I'll also add Mr. Weston as the 5th suitor- probably easier to get. I also might adjust the rules so that unless an Event card gives you a power to change it, all ladies must roll for suitors in an order from lowest points to highest points. (This would change the order for each lady.) I think this would make the press your luck mechanic more interesting at the end of the game.
Anyway, most of what I wrote above was pretty stream of consciousness and probably didn't make a lot of sense, but hey, what are blogs for? The good news is that I think a LOT of the work is still good, especially the Event cards which took the longest to write. So we're making progress. My goal was to get this to Kickstarter backers by October and I think we are definitely on track to meet that goal./pic2181314.jpg)
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I've been working on the Emma Expansion pretty diligently for the past few weeks. I finally got the files finished last Thursday and got my copies back from the printer today. This is just in time to take them on a trip to New Hampshire where I'll hopefully get the chance to do some play testing with some friends of mine. I just have to pack it up with Marrying Mr. Darcy and we'll be good to go!
After we work out the bigger bugs, I'll rewrite the cards and get the files prepped to send out to Kickstarter backers. I'm not sure how long this will take- probably depends on how well it works and how many changes there are. I'm guessing the play testing won't take nearly as long as the original Marrying Mr. Darcy took (many, many months) since a lot of the basic mechanics are similar as opposed to starting from nothing. Here's hoping!/pic2086198.jpg)
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New blog/review by Dave Ex Machina.
"The fact that Darcy went for a scandalous hussy known for wearing low-cut gowns and shamelessly flirting with soldiers made me question whether or not he’s such a catch after all."
Check the entire review out here: http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpress/?p=8935
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I was very impressed with this young woman, Lily, who is half of the review team behind The Chalk. Lily and her dad review tabletop games and are posting the reviews on youtube. She clearly has good taste in books and also did an excellent walk-through at the start of the video. You can check out their review of Marrying Mr. Darcy below. Consider subscribing to them on youtube or twitter @chalkreviews.
Lily says "I think this is a great game if you are a Pride and Prejudice fan...I had a lot of fun playing it with my family."
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