We have a (preliminary) trailer
Remember our last blog post? Great. (Seriously, if you can’t remember it: Read here) From the great footage we created a few weeks ago and a horde of acolytes we locked up in the basement for video editing, we produced A PRELIMINARY TRAILER! It contains...
25 August, 2019
A Habeamus team, some actors, and a cameraman walk into a church
Silence. A flickering candle breaks the darkness. A group of monks stands in a circle. The church door is slammed open. A gust of wind blows out the candle. Fog settles and in the door frame, there is a wanderer carrying a mysterious chest.
20 June, 2019
Sola Scriptura
As mentioned earlier we are aiming for a kickstarter campaign to fund our production costs. And what would a kickstarter campaign be without an awesome video? Exactly, not much. So we are in the process of writing a script.
16 June, 2019
An epic relaunch
Habeamus has gone a long way from the initial concept stage in October 2015 to the very polished prototype print run that you see all over this website. Perseverance certainly was our biggest challenge
03 April, 2019
Brainstorming Exercise, Part 2
Another thirteen ideas for re-themes and re-twists of our base game, and, wow, this is getting hard. We had to relax our restrictions a bit, but still: creating 26 ideas off of a single game is a lot! Read the first 13 ideas in part 1...
15 June, 2017
Brainstorming Exercise, Part 1
One and a half weeks ago, me and Johannes were discussing a game that had nice game mechanics, but did not really fit into the setting chosen by the authors. When I suggested the following, a new “creativity competition” was born. Rules ...
01 June, 2017
The Problems Board Gamers Have
Okay, I admit it: I read reddit. Frequently. Maybe a bit too frequently. I’ve been doing so for a while now, and even started posting. I think it’s a great way to get a feel for the community and the problems people in it have....
30 May, 2017
How to Make a Print and Play
Last week we sent out our first round of blind play-testing Print-N-Play files. It’s super-exciting to give the game to strangers on the Internet for the first time and ask them to print 26 pages, cut out 100 cards and then play your game from...
21 May, 2017
Honor Thy Artwork
When we started developing our prototype, we kept asking around amongst family and friends for an artist to partner with us. However, we could not find anyone who was able to commit the huge amount of time needed to create artwork for a board game....
05 May, 2017Featured!
I recently took part in a survey on game design, and my quote was chosen to be featured in the finished article, called 20 Board Game Makers Chime In: “What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My Board Game”. It’s a great read and you should...
25 April, 2017
Testing It for The First Time
With our newly-created first prototype in hand, it was time to try out the game for the very first time. So we made a date and prepared to play — not even a week later, on November 1st, 2015, would be the day of days. On the...
22 March, 2017
Building a Low-Budget Prototype
When we were looking for low budget material to start building a prototype, we came up with this brilliant idea for cards: Empty business cards. Great idea, but you won’t believe what a struggle it was to order them… As Johannes already wrote in our last post,...
19 February, 2017The First Design Meeting
First Milestone: reached. After convincing Simon that we should absolutely create a boardgame together, we met on Skype to discuss our first brainstorming session. Each of us had had a bit of time over the weekend to think about what should be in the game and how the...
11 February, 2017
Houston, We Have A Project
It was Thursday, October 29th 2015, when Johannes approached me with a rather unusual request. “Simon, I really feel like plotting against and betraying you. What do you think of creating a board game together?” With these words, Johannes had immediately caught my attention. I...
31 January, 2017
How the Project Started
So you want to know how it all started? It’s a good question, and the answer is really, really banal. It started here with me surfing the internet for interesting things to read, when I found an article on the Italian Renaissance. Here’s the link: Ex...
22 January, 2017
Board Game Jam 2016
On December 3rd 2016 Johannes and me hosted a small board game jam in the local hackerspace in Düsseldorf, Germany. Five people participated and created five unique games in only four hours. It was great fun, a great success and we’ll do it again next...
31 March, 2016
