In 7 Wonders : Customs, make your citys customs evolve! 14 new cards, 3 new Wonders and 4 new Leaders will allow you to carry battles far from home, export your productions, organize public festivities or replace no longer useful buildings.
7 Wonders : Customs is a fan expansion for the board / cards game 7 Wonders by Antoine Bauza.
I developped it on my own, doing all the design, balancing and card creation works. My expansion was authorized for free diffusion by the publisher (as all fan made expansions are).
Contents
A MDA approach to systems design
I first analyzed the base game dynamics and design principles to understand its functioning. 7 Wonders is a turn-based game where players play one card from their hand each turn, and one a card is played it stays in place until the game ends.
The resulting dynamic is a steady accumulation of points throughout the game. My expansion aims to create more variety in turn-to-turn situations, using bursts of value or temporary modifiers.
To achieve this vision, I started from the mechanics already in the game. I created variants based on them. This ensures my expansion uses an interaction vocabulary very close to the base games one.
Same goes for content! I researched for historically fitting buildings, leaders and customs.
Balancing
For balancing, I used a similar approach : analyzing how the base game was balanced then defining how my expansion would affect that balance. I also monitored playsessions data.
Rules & printing sheets
To write the rules, I strictly followed official expansions rules structure. 7 Wonders : Customs is only available in French at the moment.
7W_Customs_Regles detaillees - V0.6.pdf
Printing sheets for playing the expansion: cards, tokens and Wonders.