The drawings and colors drew my attention. The concept aroused curiosity. The wish to add Portuguese to the most common languages around, in this area, led me to making contact. And the positive answer did the rest!
The Portuguese translation of the rules of Whales Destroying the World, a game by Petr Vojtech with the art of Jindrich Pavlásek, was the first formal collaboration in this fast-paced world of board game creation. Thank you, Petr!
It's been six months now.
And the collaborations already add up to twenty!
Translations into Portuguese, proofreading in English and Portuguese, comments and suggestions for projects at different stages of development.
Playing with different languages, in search for the best sense. Detecting inconsistencies, errors and typos. Making suggestions. Helping to tell a story. All in all, improving firsthand experiences.
Something I've always been doing over time, in my different lives. Something that I can now do in these territories, where I feel at home.
At first it was the whales. Then came other animals, like bees and chickens. But also, kilt wearing people. And adventurers and warriors with magical arts, in inhospitable lands. Imaginary kingdoms looking for a new sovereign. Merchants in the Mediterranean. The struggle for power in ancient Rome. The arts of calligraphy. The operation of computers. Football matches. Traveling through outer space.
Worlds created by people, who decided to face the challenge of creating the game they dreamed of and that did not exist yet. Worlds created by companies, some small ones taking the first steps, others well established in this market. Worlds disseminated by publishers.
Work that flies over borders, touching land in many points of our globe. From Portugal to Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom or the United States of America. For now!
Creating, together, within the reach of a click.
In December, it was the whales. Going backwards one month, you may find the first entry of this blog, in Portuguese and English. A time also marked by the setting up of a Twitter account, joining game-themed Facebook groups and recurrent visits to Kickstarter. Another month towards the past and you may witness the start of the blog launch countdown. And just a small step further back, the very idea of returning to the land of games.
Now, the journey continues.
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