Drupal the Card game is printed and ready, and the instruction video for it is up! It is a game that Rustan Håkansson made for the web design company NodeOne, that specializes in the content management system Drupal. The video features imitations of well-known Drupal community profiles, with Rustan starring as Dries Buytaert (the founder and project leader of the Drupal project). The rules are online.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSU08LQ54o
Rules: http://nodeone.se/blogg/matts-hilden/drupal-the-card-game

It is a quick 5 minute game for 2-4 players, with some interesting concepts. Players choose 3 out of 6 drawn dual-purpose cards to keep, and plays the rest to the table. The cards on the table become modules, and the cards on your hand become websites. Players work together, secretly, on completing the modules. Completed modules may be used by any and all players for their sites. Players score for sites that are complete, as well as modules that they have helped the most with building. There is luck, but not much for such
a short game.

The game is produced by NodeOne, and will be given out for free at the Drupal Conference in San Francisco next week.

The new website is running fine since the change almost two months ago. Editing your games is much easier, and the overview is much improved. The release is looking to be coming along in May as planned.

Best regards,

Rustan Håkansson
Cloudberry Games

We are back from yet another fun Essen. Several of the games on the website were presented to and picked up for publication by other publishers.

Some of our gaming highlights from the show:

Jaipur
A brief history of the World
Dungeon Lords
Fabrikmanager
Fzzzt!
Hansa Teutonica
Assyria
And the pile of 18xx games Pontus ordered a looong time ago :)

During a meeting a new idea was developed. We will make it possible for established publishers to upload finished games, without licensing them to us. Anyone interested in the game will be able to read it and print it out to test, and come with feedback. Most sought for comments here will be unclear wording and translation issues. If a serious problem with the game is found, it might help the publisher to abort and not invest a lot of money in the print. Each game will have a time during which it is available, and a deadline for comments before the game will go to print.

For members, the reason to help with this is the same as with other projects on the site, that the game is interesting and it is fun to help with the development and to see new games before they are released.

For publishers, more eyes checking the material before print to spot errors is very useful. There will be no cost for this beyond a normal developer account (€10 per year), but the catch is that there might not be any feedback at all if no member found the game interesting.

Best regards,

Rustan Håkansson
Cloudberry Games

An end of summer update of what is happening at Cloudberry Games.

After discussions with the beta testers we have now put the latest draft of the license agreement for game authors that want to work with us online for all to see. It is currently on the front page, just below this piece of news. The reason for this unusual move (contracts are usually very secret) is that we want it to be as good as possible, and that we want to work together with authors to make it so. Comments are very welcome, from anyone that is interested (contact us through the website or by email).

August is here, and we are still not ready to open the site completely. Things often take longer time than planned, especially if you want to get things right. We have activated many more beta testers (currently 55 total), and have changed the policy for how new beta testers are activated: current testers can now recommend other users that are interested. We expect the beta to go on at least until Christmas. All active beta testers will have a free account at least until next summer.

We are getting ready for Essen Spiel. We will bring some games to promote to other publishers. If you are a beta tester and have a game you would like us to bring, and it will become ready to show in the coming month, please inform us as soon as possible. We will look through the games that are ready now and the ones that are coming and bring the ones we think are interesting for the publishers we will meet with.

Best regards,

Rustan Håkansson
Cloudberry Games

A big welcome to all new members!

We are featured at Board Game News, take a look if you have not done so already. Check out the membership drive there too, Eric does a great job with the site.

Direct link: tinyurl.com/d9at2n

Main site: www.boardgamenews.com

We are getting ready for beta testing of the platform, check the option in your personal settings if you are interested in participating. There is some information on it in the BGN interview :)

If there is anything you would like to know, please send me a question!

Best regards,
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Rustan Håkansson
General Manager
Cloudberry Games
+46 738 55 12 04
rustan@cloudberrygames.com
www.cloudberrygames.com

We have put information about membership options online at http://www.cloudberrygames.com/membership

Quite soon an activity will become available to members. You can also check out what Gamer and Developer members will be able to do. Right now, only the basic membership is activated.

Best regards,
--
Rustan Håkansson
General Manager
Cloudberry Games
+46 738 55 12 04
rustan@cloudberrygames.com
www.cloudberrygames.com