Comma Cube Games

hey everyone, it's Cam 👋🏼

As some of you may know, I don't have much of a board game background. I come from a few creative mediums and some independent learning in a variety of academic fields, but the board game world with all of its culture and norms and all of that, is an area that I have fairly limited experience with. But this weekend I finally took the plunge to get some of that sweet sweet hands on experience at 2023 CuseCon

This was my first real board game convention, so there were a lot of firsts and things to learn, but one of the things I found most surprising was just how open and casual so many people were to playing games with strangers. It's a piece of culture that is so different from most interactions in the outside world - to commit an hour or more to a playful bout with someone you've never met. And the thing I was maybe most surprised by is that it was always fine. Nothing crazy or weird happened, people were generally friendly and light and just wanted to have a good time. In hindsight I suppose that does make sense, but the quality and extent of openness that I experienced, I don't think I would have predicted. It's a beautiful thing this board game world, thanks to everyone who let me in and shared their time talking, hanging out, and playing games. And big thanks to CuseCon for fostering a light and welcoming environment, y'all have a good thing going 😎

Thankful for all the new connections made, and reinvigorated to get out there and connect with some more people! 👏🏼

Comma Cube Games is hosting an all day board game event!

We will have a library of over 300 games, food, drinks, and friends.

Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many to expect. (315-720-5057)

We will be on the second floor of the Gear Factory. (200 S Geddes St.) Sunday September 10th, 11am-7pm.

Devlog 12 #

Ohhhhhh snap… 👏🏼👏🏼 Big week for us!! As many of you may already know from previous devlogs, we’ve been working with an artist named Sean for some time now, but we’ve kinda kept the specifics under wraps. But yesterday we finally made the announcement official!! For our very first project, we’re fortunate enough to be collaborating with the amazing and totally rad (Twitter and Instagram). The Goonz are a tight knit community of enthusiasts and fellow creatives from around the globe, pulled together by Sean’s artwork. Sean has been making art in various mediums for his whole life essentially; painting, tattooing, digital art, etc. He and a small team founded the Goonz in 2021, and since then have building a brand and curating virtual and IRL experiences for their community. We’re super excited to have such a solid community join in the process of making the game, as well as to be partnering with a such a well established brand for our first project, it’s truly very cool and exciting.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 it’s actually kinda insane to be honest lol so thank you to Goonz, we love ya ♥️

As for actual development stuff, we spent most of this week prepping for the announcement as well as working on a digital implementation of the game. Like I mentioned in the last devlog, having a digital implementation of the game allows us to get play tests at a much higher volume, and now with the Goonz community ready to jump in, it’s about time we get a digital version up and running haha Ben and I tested the digital build yesterday and made note of a few things to fix, but aside from those few things and a couple art related items, I think it’s pretty much there. We’re aiming to have it ready sometime mid next week, so stay tuned if you’re interested in play testing! We’ll make a post once we make accessible and also probably plan some discord hangouts to help people along, and some twitch livestreams as well for anyone who just wants to watch and get a feel for the game and/or just meet some cool new people 🤙🏼

Aside from those things, more emails with manufacturers, discussions of components and things of that nature. You know, the exciting stuff 😉

Kinda a short one this week, but hey, a very exciting announcement! Feels like a long time coming. It’s almost surreal to be on the other side of it now, but the work still continues!! Much more to do, but excited and optimistic as ever 😁😁

See you in the next one!!