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🎙️ What happens when you can’t find the kinds of board games you want to play? You start designing them yourself!
In Episode 18 of Cardboard Court, Al, Dawn, and John sit down with Emily Vincent, board game designer and founder of Pink Hawk Games, for a fun and fascinating conversation about designing games, becoming a publisher, and turning creative ideas into games people can actually put on their tables.
Emily shares how a lifelong love of games eventually led her into modern tabletop gaming—and how her professional background in usability and user-interface design helped give her the confidence to say, “I design stuff. Maybe I could design a game.”
And she jumped in with both feet, working on nine different designs during her first year!
Here is a link to Pink Hawks upcoming kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinkhawkgames/good-kitties-super-chonk
Pink Hawks Youtube Channel and Website
https://www.youtube.com/@pinkhawkgames
https://www.pinkhawkgames.com/
🎲 In This Episode:
🎨 How Emily went from lifelong gamer to game designer
🧶 The story behind Knitting Circle
🏴☠️ Creating and publishing Pirates of the High Teas
🌸 A look at Perennial and its “crunchy cozy” puzzle
💗 Why Emily founded Pink Hawk Games
🐱 A preview of Good Kitties, a cooperative strategy game about cats taking over the house
😸 Super Chonk, where cats have one very important objective—get chonky!
Emily also gives some terrific insight for aspiring designers considering self-publishing. Having creative control sounds wonderful—but you're also taking on the responsibilities of running an actual business.
And, naturally, the conversation eventually turns to cats. Lots of cats. 😹
Emily reveals that Good Kitties and Super Chonk are scheduled to launch together on October 20, with players able to pick them up separately or as a bundle.
This was such a fun conversation about creativity, design, publishing, accessibility, cozy games, crunchy puzzles, conventions, cats, and the people behind the games we love.
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