As a first-time crowd funder, I’ve done a lot of research, and a lot of reflection. I’ve been asking myself the same questions I know potential backers will ask: Why crowdfunding? Why this game? Why this project?

Next diary entry is all about how the board is built. Here it all sounds quite easy, but it did take quite a while to work out how this was going to work. From the outset, I wanted the board to feel organic, something that would grow, not just fill space. Hex tiles were the obvious choice. Once I had the terrain types defined, the next challenge was deciding how many of each to include. This changed quite a bit but after some trial and error, I settled on a rough ecological logic: