I'm a 26 year old man who loved drawing board games and inventing my own card games as a kid. I still love it, and occasionally make up pen and paper and dice games to amuse myself when I have the time and am away from my computer. I made a really fun laugh out loud board game once, in a space setting, with dice battle and card mechanics.
you had to collect "artifacts" that you can pick up randomly from the stack, or take from your opponents in space combat. there were missile cards that could take out an opponent across the board as well, with a special kind of card to counter the missile should you have one. it was real fun, you lived hard and died fast and at any moment the tide could turn. a loser could become the almost decided winner in less than a minute.
This gave me confidence in my ability as a game designer and now I have joined these forums to interact with other game developers so I can gather knowledge for an eventual attempt to publish some of my original games.
