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Exclusive Interview: “Divorce! The Game” Designer Andrew Yoon

 

It’s been said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. So why not have fun with it? In the upcoming card game Divorce! The Game — which is currently looking for funding via Kickstarter — you can enjoy all the excitement of splitting your property with someone who hates you, but without having to pay a lawyer. Though in talking to game designer Andrew Yoon — who I know from his past life as a game writer for such websites as Shacknews and Joystiq — there’s a bit more to Divorce! The Game than just deciding who gets to keep my rare comic book collection.

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Exclusive Interview: Flocks & Flyways Co-Creators Stephanie Palermo & Matt Hickman

 

While it may seem like all anyone plays these days are video games, card games have actually been making a resurgence of late. And I don’t just mean Magic: The Gathering, UNO, or Mystic Warlords Of Ka’a. But while some recent card games share the same basic tenets as those classics, many have taken their mechanics in different and often deeper directions, resulting in card games that involve more than just shuffling the cards and hoping you don’t get Enchanted Bunny, again.

One such game is Flocks & Flyways, a strategic card game about migratory birds that’s currently looking for funding via Kickstarter (which you can access here). But in talking to its co-creators — designer Stephanie Palermo (who, I’d like to disclose, I work with sometimes in her capacity as a video game publicist) and designer/artist Matt Hickman (who’s worked as a designer on such video games as Alpha Protocol, Aliens: Infestation, and Doki Doki Universe, though I don’t know him) — it’s clear that while they’ve designed their card game to be deep, it’s not necessarily complicated.

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