I have been tinkering with game design for decades - games of all sorts: kids games, family games, tile games, board games, light strategy games and heavy strategy games. My family and friends have played them all. Some were total busts and played only once - some were worth continuing to tinker with, and some had real potential.

I have always wanted to get my games 'out into the wild' so that people all over could play and enjoy this expression of my creativity, but always hesitated. Work, family, obligations, and a underlying worry that no one would want to play them kept me from making that step.

But time has passed, the college savings are built up, the last kid is just about to move out and my insanely supportive wife has finally convinced me to give it a go.

So in the summer of 2020 I used Kickstarter to raise the funds to start up my little business and launch the game "Bricks & Brutes" out into the wild. I was blown over with the support I got, not just from family and friends, but also total strangers all over the world. And from that first success, I kickstarted the second game "Hexinos" as well as setting up my little Etsy shop. Next I kickstarted "Draw or Swipe" in 2021. Which game I launch next is still under discussion - there are so many!

This has been such an adventure - I am really good at 1% of my business (dreaming up and perfecting my games) and so clueless at the other 99% of the business (website creation, marketing, sales, order fulfillment, search engine optimization, and on and on). I am learning, but its been slow.

I really hope you try out one (or more!) of my games - and let me know what you think! Thanks!

michael [!at] nanolocitygames.com
www.nanolocitygames.com