Back on the road

It has been six months since the first entry of this blog: D-30, the start of the countdown to the blog launch. And a little more since the decision to return to the Land of Games, a place I never completely left. Mere discontinuities.

Six months. Little time on the scale of our time. Less still in the measure of times larger than ours.

Six months. So little on the scale of our time. Less still in the measure of times larger than ours.

Six months. Wandering, discovering, rediscovering, exploring new paths. Time full, in which the least important are the numbers, that just tell a part of the story.

Six months. Wandering, discovering, rediscovering, exploring new paths. Filled time, in which the least important are the numbers, that just tell a part of the story.

Six months of writing, keeping up to the challenge of dual writing in Portuguese and English. Photographs. Old Games. Games played. New games for the collection. But also proofreading rule books, translations, comments, opinions and discussions.  And above all, people! Other travelers in this world. Meetings. Meetings over the distance. Bridges. Links.

Six months. Time to open another front: back to game design.

Coming back, because I always have done it. Since BM age, Before the Meeples. At a time where raw materials came in the shape of Lego pars, stickers or numbers placed with tape, some six-sided dice, boards drawn on paper or cardboard and notebooks. An inexhaustible source for inventing games, making simulations, recreating competitions.

Return in a different way: moving from an individual hobby and self-enjoyment, to something "playable" by others, for others, for those who may want to try it, and, who knows, even adding games to the collections of others.

Recover ideas accumulated over time. 

Clarify objectives and concepts. 

Develop mechanisms. 

Test. 

Seek the right balance. 

Tune. 

And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.

Back on the road, pedaling, symbolically, but not only! The season is in full swing, across continents. Behind is the Tour Down Under, Strade Bianche and Volta Ciclista à Catalunya. Today is time for the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Within a week, the mythical Paris-Roubaix. Soon, Il Giro, the first of the big three. Opportunities to observe, analyze, choose, compare.

Back on the road!

Ready to go (1994)!