How an “Easy to Develop” Game Idea Turned Out to Be Not So Easy to Develop? Lorenzo Silva, the author of Co-Mix, posted its Design Diary on his blog on BoardGameGeek, and we are sharing it here: “The original idea for what would eventually become Co-Mix came to me around three years ago, as one of the many small personal side-projects I start when I have …
A crew of pirates at Ares Games booth gave welcome to the visitors of Gen Con Indy 2015, presenting the new games Jolly Roger and Co-Mix, released at the show, and many others titles from Ares catalog: Galaxy Defenders and its new expansions, War of the Ring line, Sails of Glory, WW1 and WW2 Wings of Glory, Inkognito, Dino Race and Micro Monsters were demoed in …
See the rules of Jolly Roger: the Game of Piracy and Mutiny, a card game of pillage, plunder, and mutinies .
The first ideas for designing Jolly Roger came up in 2006. The trigger for it was playing the game “Junta” with my friends again. “Junta” is an old game from 1979 where players try to put the most money from a Banana Republic into a Swiss bank account. Insurrection and fierce street fights are the key words of this game. What I especially liked in this …
Coming in September, Jolly Roger – The Game of Piracy and Mutiny is the first card game to be published by Ares. It’s also our first project with the game designer Fréderic Moyersoen, already known by gamers for great games like Saboteur and Nuns on the Run. The 54 year old Belgian graduated as a movie director, and was employed in different companies as salesman or …
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