In my post about Cardboard Edison feedback, I mentioned the recommendation to make voting anonymous, and I started spitballing ideas for how to do that. Despite my earlier reservations, I went ahead and ordered some blank dials to experiment with. This past weekend I finally got to test out the new system, and it went great!
Here's how it works - at the start of the game, each player gets a number (it's arbitrary, you just pick somebody to be 1 and go around the table from there). When voting for inventions, turn the dial to the number of the player whose invention you are voting for, then place it face down in the middle of the table. Once everyone has voted, the dials get turned over and you can see right away who got what. When you move on to the next round, pass the dials around so everyone has one again; they're identical, so it doesn't matter which one belonged to which player before.
One of the things I always noticed when I played DGE in the past was that if other people cast their votes while I was still thinking about it, it often felt like that was nudging me to go one way or another. Using the dials completely eliminated this, and I loved that.
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In other news, I'm still figuring out how to change the movement system for Under a Violet Moon. I think I have the general idea of what I want it to look like now, but I haven't put the cards together yet to test it. Hopefully I'll have that before too much longer.
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