Greetings from Vienna to you all, and: Hello. My name is Zach(arias), a humble computer technician by trade, born somewhere around timestamp 305458000 (I guess that would be autumn of 1979), and, as it goes, another lockdown hit the city thanks to our all favorite 100% biodegradable virus. In whatever variant this time.
Being “key personnel” has advantages. Like having to go to the office even during the worst of lockdowns to hang around with other people of equally questionable choice of profession, and at some time, somehow, for some reason, we started to tinker with pen and paper (which are every computer technicians favorite, because, you know, those things have no software errors…), and as time passed – a game started to emerge.
None of us is a professional game designer in any way, shape or form, we are no marketing-guys either, and, to be honest, I think we just wanted to play a game that is a game for the sake of being a game – not to feed egos, not to “mack it bik on soshl meed-eeh-haw”, not to sell anything, least of all another useless ton of plastic … just a, as it turned out, strategy board game for the sake of being a strategy board game.
This started over a year ago. And that weird game started to be more and more enjoyable. Is it any good? I have no idea. Was it fun to design and do I enjoy documenting this way more than I probably should? Absolutely. However, it is well beyond the point that it should be published, for people who did not directly participate in its inception to be able to have a look at it if they want to. I figured BGDF would be a good forum for that.
best regards,
Zach
