Marbushka

Have you ever recognized, that the chronology works differently in this part of the year? It's hard to believe that another Monday or Wednesday will come after Christmas and life will go on the usual way. The holiday season has just begun, so I should stop worrying about the future. It's time to have fun, be relaxed, enjoy the company of our beloved ones and focus on all the good things what happened this year. Fortunately, Christmas belongs to 2019, because no matter how beautiful 2020 looks like written, I'm afraid of its surprises. Life is fast and cruel, I don’t want to think about the new challenges yet. Mentioning “challenge” remembered me to inform you: The design of the Kingdom has been finished! Every little detail is done: the board, the figures, cards ... - I just haven’t got the blurriest idea what we're going to play with them, because the rule hasn’t been finished yet. :-D Laszlo is impressed by my “prioritization” and he is always surprised that a s...

In The garden - Photo: dodoland.ru In The Garden  -  Photo: dodoland.ru I made an interesting discovery today: the Kingdom will not be ready if I do not work on it. :-P Life is like a board game, but much less fair. Especially in time schedules. The streets have been decorated with Christmas lights weeks ago, people are walking by with beautifully wrapped presents and I haven't even started the preparations! I am troubled with designing the Kingdom game. I loved so much the games we published this year that it is a real challenge to focus on a new one. The hipe of the sidetracked ideas and sketches grows continuously. I used to do a better job in the past, but I might have taken fewer duties. I must be crazy to start designing a new game in the holiday shopping season, but I am still chasing romantic dreams of Christmas just like a child. I don't have too many reasons for it, something has always overshadowed the holiday in the past four years, but I al...