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What’s the difference between designer and developer

22 lutego, 2023 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

What is the difference between a designer and a developer? It’s roughly like the difference between a father and a grandfather. Like the difference between a mother and a grandmother. The mother gets up at 2 am to feed the baby, while the grandmother sees the baby on Sunday after dinner, chats with them, says sweet nothings, proud of her grandchild, as if it couldn’t get any better! The father rocks the baby in his arms for two hours because the baby has colic and is screaming so loudly that he can be heard throughout the neighborhood. The grandfather, on the other hand, comes around during the holidays, tells a nice story, gives a gift, offers some advice, and then goes back home. He went through all of that, now let the young parents struggle, he’s too old for that.

Testing Thorgal gives me wild joy. I come, play, give my opinion here and there, ask for something to be changed or added, and then I go back to my duties. Let the young parents…

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To be like Stephen King

22 grudnia, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy
Does every board game have to be innovative? Should every designer try to include something in their game that the world of board games doesn’t know yet? Do players expect innovation when they buy a game?
I think not.
Stephen King has been preaching for years that writing books is a job like any other. He calls himself a craftsman. I myself believe that there are only a few geniuses, and outstanding designers, such as Garfield, Wursch, or Cathala. The rest of us must try as hard as we can to be the best in our craft. To be like Stephen King. That’s all it is.
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Thorgal and the Atlas of Adventures

6 grudnia, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy
I remember my first Forgotten Waters playthrough. My hands were trembling from excitement, I couldn’t sit down, I was standing at the table, and the designer in me was over the moon. The Location Book—a bound set of adventures we experience during the game—opened an ocean of possibilities before us. On page 2, we’re at the Port, but then we set sail, turn to page 8, the Archipelago, and after a few rounds we end up in the Bay with a secret cave, and if there’s a cave, we move to page 18, where we see a mysterious…
Every page is a new world. Every page is a new mini set of rules, a new challenge, a new adventure. Forgotten Waters have unhinged the door to a chamber containing dozens of new game ideas.
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What kind of game Thorgal is

25 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy
Thorgal is one of the biggest comic book series in Poland. Created by Jean van Hamme and Polish artist Grzegorz Rosiński became a nationwide phenomenon. Polish fantasy book? Witcher. Polish comic book? Thorgal. Even though van Hamme is a Belgian writer, we all here in Poland treat the comic book series like our national treasure.

When the owners of rights to Thorgal reached us and asked if Portal Games is interested in creating a board game, we debated it for some time. 2, maybe 3 seconds. Then, we wrote ‘Heck, yeah.” and clicked send button.

And then the question – how to even start? You have rights to your beloved IP, and you can do absolutely everything. Should you do a fast-to-play deck builder like Hero Realms? Should you go for a dungeon crawler like Bloodborne: the board game? A story-driven game in the style of Sleeping Gods? A strategy game like War of the Ring?

There is an infinite number of possibilities. All tempting, all whispering to my ears: “Choose me, choose me.”

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I strongly believe that good board game is the one that tells a good story. You play it and suddenly you are sucked into it, you feel chills on the skin. Emotions grow. In a moment you defend castle. You hear roar of warriors. You smell boiling oil. You are into it. That's how I design my games. I always want to tell a good story. I want players to be into it. As deep as possible.

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We’re thrilled to announce that the Gamefound campaign for Thorgal is set to launch on April 11th!

We’re excited to share all of the progress we’ve made on the game and all details about the game and its components!

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