Press Kit

Meadowvale

1–4 players
Playtime 50-100 minutes
Age range 12+
Genre: Ecological strategy / tile-placement

Description

“A strategic board game inspired by the British countryside”

“Inspired by the landscape and wildlife of the British countryside. Build a shared landscape and place animals where the rules follow nature: foxes chase rabbits, owls swoop over meadows and hedgehogs shelter in gardens. Guide wildlife, and let the landscape unfold in this strategic tile-placement game for 1–4 players.”

Designer

Chris Long

Publisher

Brass Fox Games
(an imprint of Brass Fox Studios)

Contact

brassfoxgames@gmail.com

What is Meadowvale?

Meadowvale is a strategic tile-placement game inspired by the landscapes and wildlife of the British countryside. Players shape a shared ecological landscape of hedgerows, woodland, meadows, and river, introducing animals that behave according to real ecological relationships. Rabbits cluster for safety, foxes hunt open ground, owls watch by line of sight, and kingfishers compete for stretches of river. Combining traditional printmaking aesthetics with interconnected spatial strategy, Meadowvale is designed as both a tactical game and a living landscape.

Quotes from UKGE

“One of the underground hits of the convention!”

— MEEPLE UNIVERSITY

“This is the most stunning game I have ever seen.”
— FU Dice Board Games

“Our demo was great, I really enjoyed the shared landscape!”

- Han_playsgames

“A beautiful game will always attract attention and the card art in Meadowvale is absolutely stunning.”
— Board Game Review .com

“Demo’d the stunning prototype of Meadowvale. The game that carries it’s theme best throughout!”
— Board Games After Dark

“I couldn’t even get near to check in whenever I went past. But there were big smiles all around”
— Scouting for Games

“Played this at UKGE and it was really good. You can tell a lot of love and hard work has gone into this and I can’t wait until it comes out to back on Kickstarter”

LilOzzy, BGG rating review

Quotes from Playtesters

“Super game, lovely theme which ties in very well with what is going on in the game.”

“Nature card actions/abilities are great, animal cards make sense. It all goes together with great synergy.”

“Overall Meadowvale is a beautiful looking smooth playing competitive tile laying animal placing game about the amazing British countryside.”

“The level of player interaction is nice with everyone populating the landscape with neutral animals going that you get to claim them before someone else does. Congratulations, you have a great game here and I'll definitely be grabbing a copy when it gets released.”

"loved how the theme worked and made sense, especially liked foxes eating rabbits and hedgehogs unless they hide in a hedgerow, kingfishers only being on a river, owls cant see through trees.
Beautiful artwork all over. Fun gameplay with lots to think about. You can play the game to suit your dynamics...”

“The theme is a really lovely calming touch, the animal cards nicely showcase how the animals actually cohabit and interact in nature and seeing that reflected in a board game is something really special.”

Designer Biography

Chris Long is a British artist, printmaker, composer, and game designer, and the founder of Brass Fox Studios. His work combines landscape, ecology, and visual storytelling across fine art, music, and tabletop design.

He holds a First Class degree in Fine Art and Music from the University of Liverpool, a Master’s degree in Music Composition from Newcastle University, completing a PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is British Composer Award winner.

Working primarily in printmaking, mixed media, and photography, Chris explores the relationship between abstraction and the natural world through expressive texture, layered surfaces, and landscape-inspired forms. His printmaking practice includes relief printing, collagraph, drypoint, and carborundum techniques, with imagery emerging through experimentation and material process.

His artwork has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions in the USA, Spain, France, Bulgaria, and Japan. In the UK, his work has been shown at the Southbank Printmakers Miniprint Exhibition in London and the Royal Society of Printmakers at Bankside Gallery. In 2023 he received the First Prize in Experimental Printmaking Award at the Kazanlak Miniprint exhibition and later served as International Juror for the 2024 edition.

Meadowvale brings together these artistic and ecological interests into a shared strategic landscape inspired by the British countryside — combining tactile design, ecological systems, and handcrafted visual identity into a single authored world.