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The newest card image from the game: "Civility" allows a player's nobles to collect information from their enemies.

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Burning the candle at both ends on the game is finally starting to catch up to me. I had one of those days yesterday where I just stared at the computer screen for hours, nothing coming. There were things that needed to be fixed - rewritten - for the kickstarter pitch video and I just couldn't go there.

I did take an afternoon and evening out this weekend to play a full game of Twilight Imperium. This is a grand old strategy game with hundreds of plastic pieces, seating 6 players and taking an hour of game for each. It didn't leave me feeling any more rested; T.I. is a brain-burner. But it left me feeling good about my own game. I designed Lyssan to go places T.I. couldn't, to play faster yet deeper. Sitting down for an afternoon of T.I. gives me confidence that I'd hit those marks.