Thanks for all of the support. This is a fun, little one.
Three Quick Updates from Questions Asked: 1. BGG Listing is in the works. Of all things, I forgot this. So strange. 2. Someone inquired about a play through video. This is my overly-long play through video on a tablet. I'm not offended if you don't watch it. You can find that here. 3. How can we help make this blow up? Y'all, this is lovely already. What do people say nowadays? "I'm here for the vibes."
Let me tell you the history of West Texas Railways. A million and a half years ago, during lockdown, I was tinkering with a game design that was incredibly loosely based on Paris Connection/SNCF. It was a simple (1) grab a cube (2) place a cube (3) do a thing. I could never crack that code. Mind you, Paris Connection/SNCF is a wonderfully devious game; I didn't have much hope.
So I shelved WTXRW. 18(ish) months later, my friends at Button Shy were running a print and play style contest where the game had to be playable/printable of a 4x6 inch-or-so piece of paper. So I reworked WTXRW to be a flip and fill model. This turned the game from a Paris Connection cube rails game to something quite a bit different. Oh, and we had to use 18 cards in the pitch design. So I did!
This was the original map:
You can see all my chicken scratch trying to make the game work.
I did not get selected by Button Shy, which is probably for the better because now I can give you what you see on the main page instead!
What's your favorite train game? Next time I'll talk about mine!
