A couple of months ago I was feeling bored, yes that is just it.
I had plenty of things to do but I needed a creative outlet. So while chatting to a friend I told him that I wanted to design my own game but I did not have inspiration for a theme.
He told me to go for an arabian nights/cyberpunk based theme. I liked this a lot and we started discussing how this would work etc.
Turns out he had several vague ideas that were more or less advanced, mostly just in his mind.
So I kicked into action and immediately created some shared folders. I was still working a bit of CyberNights but it went a bit slow. At the same time we were talking about another project and my friend decided to write a blurb about his ideas of a game.
This triggered a lot of inspiration (I like brainstorming) and we started going back and forth while slowly a basic rule-set emerged.
This project with code-name BDB is slowly taking off, we both have our personal lives that keep intervening but we are grinding on it and 3 months into the process I can safely say that we have a basic ruleset and we are working on the last couple of cards that are needed in order to start playtesting (I already made blanks 😉 )
All in all it is a slow but exciting process and I am learning a lot on the way.
Best case scenario we’ll have our names on a box and we’ll be sold in shops. Worst case scenario we’ll have a nice game we enjoy playing ourselves and we have learned a lot about game-design in the process.
Seems like win win for me.