Watch “Making Prototypes Ep.3 - Petr Caslava, Matúš Kotry,” a board game interview for Kutná Hora: The City of Silver on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Czech Games Edition on YouTube:
In this third part of our Making Prototypes series, we welcome Petr Caslava, author of Kutna Hora, as well as Matus Kotry, designer of Deal with The Devil, Alchemists and Little Alchemists, to talk about their creative method and insights into different ways of creating digital prototypes!
00:00 intro
00:36 Petr's creative method (plus TTS & NanDECK)
03:06 Making of Alchemists
05:46 Physical prototypes
08:26 How pretty should it be?
10:11 Making Deal with the Devil
12:10 Digital prototypes
15:32 Tip for new designers
17:27 Theme, Mechanics & Emotions
Mainly reviews. Kutná Hora: The City of Silver is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 33 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 13 other videos.
2 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
About Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, from BoardGameGeek:
Join other ambitious guild leaders in mining and developing the famous City of Silver during its period of rapid economic growth and expansion in the 14th century - from the first discovery of silver near the Cistercian monastery to the construction of Kutná Hora, which quickly became one of the most important cities in central Europe.
Kutná Hora: The City of Silver is a historical city-building Eurogame for 2-4 players that features a real-life supply and demand experience in which every action you take has an impact on the game's dynamic economic systems.
In each round, players take turns selecting actions from a hand of double-sided cards to engage strategic plans like mining, purchasing plots of land on which to build, gaining permits, raising buildings for their affiliated guilds, gaining profit from their production, and of course working towards the construction of Saint Barbara's Cathedral.
The asymmetrical nature of each player's available guilds makes for highly interactive rounds in which each decision impacts the economy and other players in interesting ways as they expand their mines and build infrastructure across a shared board.
Mine ore and smelt it into a fortune of silver for expanding this beautiful historic city, but take care to balance your personal goal advancement with the need to further the city's growth. Everything is connected, and sometimes the path to personal victory relies on the prosperity of the many.
-description from publisher
Designers
Ondřej Bystroň, Petr Čáslava, Pavel Jarosch
Artists
Roman Bednář, Štěpán Drašťák, Dávid Jablonovský, Jakub Politzer, Milan Vavroň