Credits and Acknowledgments


Textures, Vector Art and Stock Images were, in most cases, modified and re-purposed using post-processing software...All are greatly appreciated for the value they have added to this project during a phase of development with somewhat limited resources.

Vector Art: John Olsen (johnny_automatic), Nicolas Borda, freedo, badaman, Nicu Buculei (nicubunu), Francesco 'Architetto' Rollandin

Character Portraits:  Reggie Cuvelier, Ian Garnett

Card Illustration and other Assets:  (Searching...)

Textures: Liva Rutmane (temabina), tabus, Lex Biesenbeek, Tristan Bethe, Stefan Witte

Fontography: Lauren C. Brown, Manfred Klein, Claude Pelletier, S. John Ross, Petra Heidorn, Dieter Steffmann, John Stracke, extermin8tor, Stephen Doonan, Brian Kent, Neale Davidson, Dustin Norlander, Fredrick Nader, Daniel Midgley, Barry Schwartz, Andreas Höfeld, Mareen Fischinger, Brian Bonislawsky, Gerhard Grossman, Pablo Impallari, Igino Marini, West Wind Fonts, and the great folks at Digital Graphic Labs

Stock (and other) Images:  Ron Bergeron, for the hand of playing cards.  Jon Murphy for the great photo of authentic, hand-crafted Viking Boots (armlann.com)

Gurus of Polyhedra:  Henry Groover (author of the helpful PaperCut freeware app), The Pavilion of Polyhedreality by George W. Hart, the MathWorld repository - hosted at Wolfram Alpha (wolfram.com)

Free & Open Source Software Tools:  OpenOffice.org, SoftMaker Office 2008, GIMP, Inkscape, Paint.NET, Photofiltre, PDFill Writer, PDF-XChange Viewer, Doro PDF Writer, Foxit Reader, Thunderbird, 7-Zip File Manager, The Font Thing (by Sue Fisher), DiceTool (by David Rice, et al. at rptools.net), dice-roller (by the talented guys at pixelweaver.com)

Helpful Advice and Other Insight:  Various posts and articles by a wide range of contributors at Board Game Geek and Board Game Designers Forums, offering helpful advice to aspiring game designers

Valuable Web Resources:  Morguefile.com, openclipart.org, imageafter.com, weebly.com, clkr.com, gmx.com, typOasis (by CybaPee), Jeroen Kessels Name Generator, Rinkworks Fantasy Name Generator, Totro Random Name Generator

Development of content and gameplay mechanics have drawn inspiration from a variety of sources, including numerous video games...The goal was to combine these elements, along with our own ideas, in a way that created something conceptually new, artistically unique, and hopefully memorable and fun for players of all ages.

Sources of Inspiration: The original (classic) Dungeons & Dragons; 'Dice Combination' games of the Yahtzee variety; Settlers of Catan (concept of a random criminal); the long-running series of 'Mario Party' video games by Hudson Soft; Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (mini-games, collecting things) and Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (more mini games, solving troubles); the art style of Tom Wham, Stephanie Tabat & David C. Sutherland (as seen in Mertwig's Maze), David A. Trampier (as seen in King of the the Tabletop) and visual presentation found in the many works of Doris Matthaus and Frank Nestel; the concept of a modified ruleset for solo adventures came from "Adventures of D" by Jack Darwid; memorable miscellanea found in various Video Game RPGs of yesteryear - including especially Baldur's Gate and Morrowind, certain LucasArts Adventure games, so many bizarre but endearing RPG monsters, a handful of wonderful science fiction and fantasy movies and - lastly - the desire to create a fun, imaginary world appropriate for casual board gamers and roleplaying enthusiasts alike.

Thanks again to all of you for creating and contributing the tools and resources, or providing the inspiration, that helped make this game possible.

If we've inadvertently forgotten someone (or made a spelling mistake) please drop us a line.


Updated: 1/10/12