This week I'll be sharing the interview
I had with the creator of the online boardgame/RPG playing system,
Vorpal Board, which allows you to play tabletop games online using
the actual game pieces!
Q: What prompted you to design Vorpal
Board? Tell me about what makes your system unique.
A: A number of years ago I moved from
Wisconsin to New York and as a result I left behind a group that I
played board games with. Around the same time, the board game scene
really started getting going on Kickstarter and I was buying games
that I wanted to play with my old gaming group. As a software
engineer, I decided to see if I could put together a solution to the
problem and I started kicking around some prototypes. Over the
years, I got some rough versions up and running (at least enough for
us to play through some sessions remotely). After talking with
enough people that thought it was neat and wished they could do the
same thing, I decided to bring on some additional help and make a run
at building out into a full scale product. We took about a year of
heavy software and product development to get to a usable beta and
now we are bringing the product to Kickstarter in this form.
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