Development scorecard

[Matt W]

Here's a quick update on what has happened over the past two years and what is on our plates going forward

Daniel and I took on the Developer hat for PG in late 2014.  Daniel had done game development before, although not PG and I only had "playing a lot of scenarios, mostly solitaire" as a qualification.  In the past two years we have:

Completed development on two boxed games (Invasion and Road To Dunkirk).
Completed development on six supplements (Blackshirt, Tunisie, 1942, Maple Leaf, Land Cruisers and River Fleets).
Completed design and development of two entirely new units types, including movement and combat rules (Land Cruisers and River Fleets).
Edited two boxed games (Conquest of Ethiopia and the 2nd printing of South Flank).
Did additional development and final editing on one boxed game (Broken Axis).
Completed development on two completely revamped reissues (Kokoda and Go For Broke).
Added Battle Games to assess competitive performance in an operational setting (Road to Dunkirk, Invasion, Kokoda, Broken Axis, 1942, Maple Leaf, River Fleets and Go For Broke).
Added Solitaire Battle Games (Go For Broke)
Actually designed a game from the ground up (River Fleets)
Completely developed roughly 200 scenarios.
Edited, revised, mucked around with and (hopefully) improved another 75 scenarios.

However, that list is dwarfed by what is in the pipeline (including games from Jay as he has noted here, Mike Perryman, Mike Bennighof and Philippe Leonard).  Most of the "innovations" are hopefully done (Battle games are part of every product now going forward, unless absolutely unsuited to the topic, solitaire battle games where appropriate, two hex units for land combat, and riverine combat).  We have one more idea up our sleeve but need to wait for just a bit on that one.

Based on what we have done to date over the past two years I can tell you that we already have about 4 years worth of development already in house with more coming on a regular basis.

On the floor right now are games on the rest of 1940 (Belgians and SS as well as some with almost the entire mix), the Greco-Italian war, fun in the Philippines (41 and 44) and Korea, extreme sports in Crete and sunbathing in Sicily and North Africa, a couple divisional studies,  winter sports in Belgium, and to wrap everything else up a travelogue of the Ukraine.

I'm sure that there are opportunities for additional designs and would encourage people who want to submit designs on other topics (e.g. Spanish Civil War, Balkan fighting, especially in the later war, China, Russia, Southern France, Italy, China, Burma and China) (Wait, a second.  Did I mention China?) to do so.