The Games

Mythotopia

The first game to be produced will be Mythotopia, which was originally going to be released by Asmodee. However, they have now decided to take one of my other designs, thus returning the rights to Mythotopia to Treefrog. We are aiming to have the game ready by July. You can find out more about the design here.

Ships

The second game will be Ships and is about the history of shipping, following on from Automobile. This is an economic/development game with almost zero luck. It plays with two to five players and takes around two hours to complete. I really like the way this game has turned out. It takes you from the dawn of shipping to the 1940s. It has a progression track similar to that in Automobile but with a different set of mechanisms built around it. The rules are actually quite short for one of my designs, but there is a lot going on in the game. You can read a little more about the game here.

Unfortunately I cannot tell you what the third game will be. This is not because it has not been designed yet, as it has and is pretty much finished. The problem is that I need permission to use the license. Negotiations are in progress and I’m 99% sure that I will get the green-light, but until then I cannot say more, except to say it has a sci-fi theme. What you will get is a game unlike any other in your collection, both in terms of the theme and the actual physical representation of the playing area. If for some reason the deal falls through then I will have an alternative design ready to replace this one.