Time and Space started to glitch... What is it that you like about your favourite games? Do they provide you puzzling challenges to solve? Hilarious moments with your friends? Freedom of expression as you paint your personality across a blank canvas for all to see using a well blended set of mechanics, rules and flavour? When I began creating Ophelia , I spent a lot of time trying to work out who I was making a game for. I knew that the simpler the game was, the more players I might have. The more players I had, the more successful the game is. The problem for the hypothetically tens (of thousands) of would-be Ophelia-Lite players, I wouldn't want to be one of them. The game I wanted to play is one born out of my disappointments in every game I'd played for over 20 years. I didn't want to play a game where I'd have to accept that some matches I'd lose because I was going second. Or that if I drew a disastrous opening hand, I'd just have to try my luck again n...
One man's musings on a niche card game in a foreign land