A friend of mine is really into board games (he’s an active BoardGameGeek).  I occassionally head over to his place for board games, beer, and usually a spot of Guitar Hero.

Inspired by a board game he is developing, I decided to try my hand at building one as well.  One Saturday later, and Venture Africa the Board Game was born!

I’ve been tweaking the ruleset and playtesting the thing, and doggonit, this thing is really fun!  It’s simple, strategic, it’s different every time, and it’s got a great theme.

Of course my early and seemingly instant success at designing the game gave me an ego, and I instantly dove into designing a game based around Venture Arctic.  While the meta game surrounding that one was great, the actual turn-by-turn gameplay was not so great.  Sound familiar?

At any rate, I’m currently in the process of finding a publisher for the Venture Africa game.  If anyone knows anyone in the board game industry that might be interested, send them my direction!

I’ll get into the ruleset (as well as my Venture Arctic experiment) in a later post…

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