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June 17, 2022

Ep 102: A Conversation With Jackson Pope and Paul Willcox about FlickFleet

56 minutes

I sit down with Jackson Pope and Paul Willcox from Eurydice games to talk about their gaming journey and the design and (handmade!) production of FlickFleet, which is about to launch on Gamefound with its fourth expansion.

Links:

Website: www.eurydicegames.co.uk

Gamefound: https://gamefound.com/projects/eurydice-games-ltd/flickfleet-xeno-wars

Jack on twitter: twitter.com/jackson_pope

Paul on twitter: twitter.com/paulwillcox10

0:45 - Paul and Jackson's history with board games

5:07 - The origins of FlickFleet

9:35 - The perils of trying to get a d10 to roll in a straight line

13:45 - Fun in failure with dexterity games

17:19 - Handmade production

24:33 - The expansions

26:23 - A fiery inferno

29:00 - Transitioning to Gamefound

33:39 - Deluxification

41:29 - Building a community

46:43 - The future for FlickFleet and Eurydice Games

Music: Sailing The Solar Wind by Abstraction

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