Projects in April

 

Day 30. End of April. Another month has gone by. An intense one, concerning projects in the land of games. Dealing with letters. Among the wit of letters and word engineering. Among different languages, revising, perfecting, polishing, or writing from scratch. From the big picture to the tiny detail, to patterns, misalignment, errors that stand out. Once an OTR, always an OTR (as in Official Text Reviewer, for those who have not shared previous lives). From the tiny detail to the big picture, giving sense, telling stories, photographing stories. 

Translating. From English to Portuguese. This time a familiar game, one that I like, and that will now get a revised and expanded version, in Spanish and Portuguese. Another collaboration with the Spanish publisher MasQueOca. Adding to previous ones, for well-known and interesting games: the expansions Venus, Balearica & Cyprus, for the excellent Concordia; the Kegs & More expansion, for Heaven & Ale; and, more recently, Pavlov’s House, in final production phase. Not to mention a number of games for the younger ones!

Proofreading. In Portuguese and small format, for the German publisher Board Game Circus, as in one of the first collaborations, a couple of years ago. In Portuguese as well, for the Portuguese publisher Pythagoras Games, continuing a collaboration started almost two years ago with 6 Castles and Garum. A brand-new partnership with the German Vuca Simulations, in English, in the form of a wargame scenario booklet, one of those games with hexes and many counters.

Writing. About The Isle of Cats. Based on a copy provided by Frank West, The City of Games, who was in search for different approaches to game-related content and enjoyed some of the stories shared in this blog! And this is how Cat Stories and Cat Moves came to life.

The beginning of the month was also a time for other writings for this blog: about the feelings of players on their gaming experience, and around photographs in packs of six, on the occasion having rulebooks, words yet again, as object. 

And yet, some games hit the table: Canvas, Railroad Ink - Deep Blue, Isle of Cats, Solenia and Codenames. Now the gaming table has been taken by Mini Express, firstly for a solo multiplayer, with my alter egos as opponents, to relearn the rules before facing the true solo version, against the bot.

Let May come!