Games in Development
Rattlesnake (Licenced!)
Two lousy, cheating, no-good gamblers decide that there is no solution but violence to resolve their dispute, in an old-fashioned duel over cards and of course money. Players will be trading shots across town, hoping to avoid their own 6-foot hole in the ground. But really, there are no winners in a fight to the death…
Rattlesnake has now been licenced and the details of release will be announced in 2025 by the publisher. I will update more on the game when it is released.
Condotta
You take on the role of various mercenary armies during the time of the great City-States in the Italian rennaissance. Powerful cities command huge wealth, but have no experience protecting it. You have no care for the Royals or their peasants, only the contract (Condotta) that they agreed to pay you to advance and fortify their holdings. Failure however will come at the expense of your own coin....
This is an area control game where players will manipulate the armies and territories of various City-States on the map. They will use numbered cards to bolster these armies, march into new areas, or command the help of the royal families that govern the provinces. Allegiances are secret, and all that is known is the price to be paid. This is done through a betting mechanism forcing players to agree on a price, and a goal with a secret house at the start of each round. However, the troops will always belong to the families, and not to you. Abandoning a contract may be expensive, but could also be beneficial....
The game features area control, betting, bluffing, and a shared board of resources (troops). 1 deck of cards, 100 cubes, 1 game board.
Delta Quadrant
You're on the wrong side of the galaxy, in the wrong neighbourhood, with a quadrant spanning Empire trying to hunt down your technologically superior ship to improve their technology and their civilisation. The wormhole that brought you here is still many days away at your maximum warp, but the Empire is closing in every day, and their advance fleet will not let you gain a day of peace!
What luck! This silly alien ship has just landed in our quadrant of the galaxy. It is technologically superior and could be the key to fixing our civilisation and restoring peace to the warring regions. If only we could convince the Emperor of it's value, so he would give us the ships we need to capture it!
Delta Quadrant is a dice placement game for two players with one player trying to escape in their Alien ship, while the other player hunts them down with the resources of an Empire (sometimes) at their disposal. The Alien player will be trying to keep their ship functioning, while upgrading it as the threat from the Empire increases. The Empire player will be trying to convince the Imperial throne to give them more resources, building ships to chase down the Alien, and usually sacrificing large amounts of resources in the hopes that quantity truly can beat quality.
The game features dice placement, asymmetric player abilities, push and pull trackers, as well as upgradeable actions. 2 decks of cards and 15 dice.
9 Lives
Cats. They really are vicious creatures that can hold a grudge until the last star winks out of existence. When two such cats find themselves in a locked grudge with their eternal nemesis, there really is no other option to make sure that their nine lives becomes zero.
9 Lives is a two player duelling deck-builder using an 18 card card. Players will be playing one card to the centre facedown, simultaneously, then both revealing. The higher number will win, and the loser will lose 1 life. The loser however will get to pick one of two face-up cards between the players to add to their deck of cards. Some cards will also have powerful effects that allow a player to alter the game rules, at the cost of losing the card back to the main draw deck.
The game features a minimal component set with just 18 cards. It uses very simplified deck-building, with elements of hand managament, and some slight trick taking.