In the third part of this designer diary, Dávid Turczi talks about the origins of the second expansion for Excavation Earth: It Belongs in a Museum! Hopefully, some of you are familiar with the backstory of Excavation Earth, and might have had the opportunity to check out how it plays. You might know it came a …
In this week’s blog post, our art director, Mark Casha, talks about the choices behind our games’ art style. Whether it’s the bright, tactile beauty of Azul, the richly-painted world of Scythe, or the cute-yet-autumnal cartoon style of Root, beautiful artwork can make a board game stand out on increasingly crowded shelves. Of course, it’s …
What is the germ of a board game? Before the long, long processes of design, testing and production, what form does a board game take, when it first springs into the mind of its creator? Most often, for us, it’s an image: a vivid picture conveying a strong emotion. Take, for example, Vengeance: a lone, …