About Us
BoardAlign Games is a family board game enterprise. That is to say that the current composition of the individuals behind BoardAlign Games are all from the same family! The games we make may also be for 'all the family' but we'll see if that happens as we go along.
Who's Who
Sarn
Sarn is the lead game designer. The rest of the time he's a teacher trainer and university lecturer in Canterbury. He likes mediaeval art, very dark chocolate and cats. As a child, his favourite games were Nap and Kingmaker.
Liam
Liam is the project manager / creative producer who makes festivals and other cultural ventures happen - now adding boardgames to the mix. We're not looking at global domination (at first) but years of playing Risk as a child can't hurt.
Thayen
Thayen is the game's artist, bringing a wealth of experience in comics (including 2000AD), film/TV storyboarding, and character/storyline development. You might also know his activist street art as Corrosive8. His favourite game? Chasing fox hunters.
Ben
Ben is the web developer for the project. A senior, full-stack, freelance developer, he's experienced in building sophisticated websites and applications.
Other members of the family are playtesters and we'll probably recruit them to do other stuff soon too!
Our Manifesto
Coming soon!!
The Games in the Pipeline
We're starting (relatively) simple with a 'simply smashing card game' called Klobba! We're kind of using it as a test run for the more challenging (for us and you) games that come later… Trough - a timely political game of power, wealth and influence. End of Days - hopefully a less timely (!) game finding fun in the apocalypse. Freak - a game of unnatural selection that's a nod to Darwin's wonderful theory of evolution but isn't particularly scientific - just enjoyable to play, we hope! The main description and blurb on each of these games (updated as we develop them) can be found on the Games page.
What Part You Can Play
BoardAlign Fan
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BoardAlign Playtester
Let us know if you're interested in playtesting any of the games, as and when they become available to playtest (that's after we have the basic playable game created but long before the game is manufactured!).
BoardAlign Investor
Please let us know if you'd be interested in supporting us and the games with finance. This may also include crowdfunding if we decide to go down that route (but we will only consider this once we have at least one thousand fans).
BoardAlign Buyer
This is a bit premature but… whether you buy one or dozens, our games will (eventually!) be on sale, so if you order them, we'll ship them out to you! That said, this means of joining in with us is not possible at the moment cos we haven't manufactured any games yet! The best way to be kept up-to-date: Sign up for our newsletter.
BoardAlign SuperFan
All of the above!
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