The first corner
Painted by hand to work out what a player board should really look like. Pressure lines, a lantern, and the turquoise that runs everything with a need for energy.
How it is coming along
Pictures from the making of it: boards, paint, printed figures and notebooks. Newest first.
The thinking behind the board
Six slots with the pipework running around them. The arrangement was the hard part, because it has to tell a story and stay readable at a glance. But it does feel like the right direction.
The field gets a little bit of colour
The field is laid in with watercolour: sand, shallows and a paved edge. The wooden bars stand in for cover, and the black markers along the side are waiting to come on as reinforcements.
One of the later figures
Not the first one off the printer, more like one of the last. Before these there were plain wooden blocks standing on the board, and here a class gets an outline of its own, one you can still make out from the far side of the table.
At eye level
I love this view from the side. The meeples really shine at that angle. This is the enemy marksman. Obviously.
How it started
A printed sheet with a grid on it, wooden blocks for figures and a heap of red dice, and that was all the first game needed. The character sheets lying around it still carry the values of a very old version.
One email, once. Be among the first to hear when a release is in sight. That is the whole arrangement: one email when it starts, and not a single one besides. One mail comes before that, with a link in it to confirm the address is yours.
Want to play it before anyone else? Leave your address here and you go into the hat for a seat at a test table. I cannot promise anything, because there is a limit to how many prototypes one person can build and put in the post. But a chance is a chance.