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Racing game with mysterious caves and technologically advanced aeroplanes

My name is Martijn Weterings and I live in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. I teach ecology to undergraduate students and do research on the European hare.

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Our story began about three years ago. Thinking about games, I always wanted to make a board game out of the old-school Arcade computer games. Not a static game, but a game that would be different every time you would play it. A game that would be as long or as short as you like. A game that would require strategy, as well as tactics.

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You’ll probably remember Zeppelin, an Arcade game from 1984. You and your zeppelin had to fly through a cave, avoiding obstacles and shooting laser beams. At some points your zeppelin could barely move through a narrow cave, while nasty moving platforms or mines blocked your way. I started thinking about a flexible card game that would capture this experience. A cave, build by you and your friends, in which each cave part would represent a dangerous challenge that players had to beat. I started developing this idea with my wife. First with simple handwritten paper cave parts, later on we improved the game mechanics, symbology and lay-out.

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After testing for a year, we played our game with several of our friends. They were excited and thrilled! From then onward we really wanted to continue the development, while we envisioned a boxed game for sale in a game store. We contacted an artist to make some sample art for our game, while we continuously improved the game based on feedback from demonstrations.

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After two more years, we are ready to launch our project on Kickstarter to collect the funds necessary to produce our dream. We have called it Cave Pilot 55 – the Arcade Card Game.




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