As a family, we've played many games over the years and we have so much fun. Of course, there's also all the other emotions as well like frustration when someone steals your card or disappointment when you lose. Just like poetry, games have all the feels!
For a long time I've been wanting to try my hand at creating a game of my own. Bringing together all the best bits of the games I've played along with my own unique flavour and perspective. Of course any game I make will revolve around words, writing and poetry. That's a given. To that end I've been collecting word games for some time now – trying to see how they are structured and what makes them great.
Scrabble and Boggle are the two old school games that come to mind when you think of words games but there are more out there. If you're interested in checking out some of my collection, you can read my posts on Literary Games, Poetry Games, and Prompts.
As always I have about a million different ideas on the go and the challenge is finding the one that works. I had to abandon some of my ideas because I don't have time at the moment to do them justice. Given all the other stuff happening in my life right now, I needed a game that was relatively straightforward to design and create. Once I realised that I also realised that the perfect place to 'publish' it would be on my Circus of Similes website.
So without further ado, here's a sneak preview of The Alchemist's Retort. If you want to grab your very own copy head on over to the Escapologist's Trunk now and download it for free!