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Le matos et les nouveautés / Re : Kharkov in Flames
« Dernier message par Robin Reeve le 22 Octobre 2026, 07:40 »Post intéressant de Tuomo au sujet du développement de cartes VASL entre leur format pour playtest et leur forme finale.
In my experience, "Essentially done" is pretty much how most HASL maps are after the first 20% of the whole development period. Playtest may move some minor things here and there, but nothing major. At the end, just prior to print, there's sometimes a bit of activity to finalize minor longstanding issues that have been left unresolved (like how to make the hex ids and center dots more visible in Rubble/Debris hexes, for example), but those are just cosmetic.
Prior to that is when I like to finish "dressing" the buildings, adding TOR (Things On Roofs). You can playtest the map just fine without adding chimneys, dormers, and other stuff to the roofs, and since it takes a while to do well, I don't like to hold up playtest for it. The Kharkov map didn't have much TOR until about 6 months ago.
Exception to all of the above: doing a Bill Cirillo map. Then there's major and minor changes all through the process
In my experience, "Essentially done" is pretty much how most HASL maps are after the first 20% of the whole development period. Playtest may move some minor things here and there, but nothing major. At the end, just prior to print, there's sometimes a bit of activity to finalize minor longstanding issues that have been left unresolved (like how to make the hex ids and center dots more visible in Rubble/Debris hexes, for example), but those are just cosmetic.
Prior to that is when I like to finish "dressing" the buildings, adding TOR (Things On Roofs). You can playtest the map just fine without adding chimneys, dormers, and other stuff to the roofs, and since it takes a while to do well, I don't like to hold up playtest for it. The Kharkov map didn't have much TOR until about 6 months ago.
Exception to all of the above: doing a Bill Cirillo map. Then there's major and minor changes all through the process