u/Ancient-Peanut6095

A couple of weeks ago, I shared a small story about our journey of creating our very first board game. The response was honestly amazing! We received so much love, encouraging comments, thoughtful questions, and plenty of DMs. We also welcomed a lot of new followers on our Gamefound page, so thank you to everyone who found us through that post and decided to join us on this adventure! 😁

One question kept coming up over and over again: "How did you get to where you are now?"

So I wanted to make a short video to show that making a board game is a journey full of trial and error. Your first design probably won't be your last and that's completely okay. Don't get too attached to your first idea, because every playtest, every bit of feedback, and every revision helps shape the game into something even better.

There are WAY MORE prototypes, but these are the ones that were fully printed.

I hope this gives a little insight into our process and maybe even encourages other aspiring designers to keep iterating and trust the journey.

Hi everyone,

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I'm so hyped that we're going to launch our first-ever board game soon on Gamefound that I wanted to share what we've been working on for the last four years!

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As the title mentions, I was never really into board games before. To me, they were either 3–5 hour-long games where you play against each other and I already knew within the first 10 minutes that I was going to lose, or some silly, wacky card game. (WHICH THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH!)

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So... why start making a board game?

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A childhood friend of mine, who lives and breathes board games, has worked in a board game café for over 10 years. He knows what makes a good board game, what people are looking for, when a game is unbalanced, etc. You name it, he knows it. ;)

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He had an idea for a board game that he wanted to pitch to me. Since I'm a graphic designer and love to draw, he asked if I'd be interested in designing and illustrating all the assets for the game.

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During that first playthrough, we were already discussing and changing things that worked well and things that didn't really make sense. That same evening, I sketched out the first character, and "the rest is history" as they say. ;)

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What makes our game so fun is that even I (someone who never really played board games or card games and didn't even know those little wooden figures were called meeples) have the same chance of winning as my childhood friend, who's basically a board game grandmaster!

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Quick summary of our game: It's a two-player, highly interactive card game where players have to steal from the city in order to gain more cards and steal recognizable works of art from Silverfang Manor. Players don't just steal from the board, they also steal from each other's hands and decks! The game combines elements of deck-building, deduction, strategy, and a bit of luck.

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As I said before, we've been working on this for over four years. Of course, it could have gone much faster, but this was always a hobby project that we worked on in our spare time, mostly during evenings. We wanted to keep it fun and avoid forcing it to the point where it became a burden.

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Over these four years, my love for board games has grown tremendously. I even own a few board games now. ;)

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If you want to know more about our board game, feel free to look up Artifox on Gamefound. It goes live in just 20 days!

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https://gamefound.com/en/projects/artifox/artifox?ref=search