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Play your cards: Why re-make a perfectly good scene?

  • Dec 12, 2015
  • katieday
  • Black Tonic, development blog, In development, Play Your Cards
I’ve been working towards bringing Black Tonic back almost since we finished the first run of shows back in 2009. That’s one of the reasons I’m so excited that we’ve finally made that happen in 2015. As the years ticked by, and I gained some critical distance from the original production, something became clear to […]
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Play your cards: Developing the game at the heart of the re-worked scene

  • Dec 11, 2015
  • katieday
  • Black Tonic, development blog, In development, Play Your Cards
Some discussions with the show’s writer Clare Duffy helped to clarify our intentions for this re-worked scene: how we want the characters to be read; how we want the audience to feel; where the scene needs to get us to by the end. Now we needed to find or create a suitable game mechanic to […]
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Play your cards: time for the tech

  • Dec 10, 2015
  • katieday
  • Black Tonic, development blog, Digital, In development, Play Your Cards
With the basic game mechanic selected for the re-worked scene, we were able to move onto how to technically realise this. The task is to build a system that will sense the placement of a playing card onto the table at one of the points of the clock face, and trigger the playing of an […]
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