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Convention season

The convention season has started. During May we attended two conventions, Nordingrå Games day in Nordingrå and the classic LinCon in Linköping.

NordingrĂĄ is a small fishing village smack in the middle of the high coast. Here we find the indie game creator hub The High coast game village. The community focuses mostly on supporting indie video game designers in the area but the NordingrĂĄ Game Day is for all kinds of gaming! For us it was great to be able to attend since Per lives in the area and for once I (Ă…ke) was the one who had to make travel arrangements.

The event turned out to be one of the most hectic days of demoing we’ve ever had! From 10:30 to 17:00 we barely had time to talk to each-other! We utilized our tables as best as we could and made room for up to four parallel game groups. When things wound down we got the chance to say hi to the owner of Orion Spel and try out Bauer by NordInk. (I ended out buying a copy)

It was a fun day that passed in a haze and when we got back to Per’s house after a dinner we just chilled and tried to recuperate.

LinCon is a convention we’ve visited many times now and it’s always fun. We showed our games all day Thursday through Saturday. There were lulls, especially in the mornings, but after the weekend we’d played many, many, games of both Perilous Pond and Bushido Duels with so many lovely people!

A group of cool people playing Perilous Pond

This year I think Perilous Pond was the more popular game, but we had a couple of die-hard Bushido Duels fans visiting as well. In addition to our released games we tried out an early prototype with visitors and a friendly game designer from Swedish Meeples.

LinCon is also a great place to meet old acquaintances and other game designers. We visited the Indie game designer room and checked out a bunch of really cool designs and shared war stories.

Since we live far* from each-other we also make the most of these conventions by eating good, playing boardgames** and just hanging out.

Per enjoying food and boardgames

After the conventions we’ve been recuperating*** and are already planning our next conventions 🙂

– Ă…ke

* faaaaaaaaaaaaar

** Mostly in cramped spaces, but also at home

*** This means playing Slay the Spire 2

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2025, what a year huh?!?!

We entered 2025 pretty exhausted after handling the production of Perilous Pond and making sure all the Kickstarter backers got their games. Given this we had quite humble ambitions for the year, we wanted to get Perilous Pond into some stores and we wanted to go to a couple of conventions.

All in all it was a good year and we did what we set out to do and we even got some inspiration for new games (though we haven’t got anything to show yet). We’ve had a ton of fun, met a bunch of lovely people and got our energy back!

Conventions

During the year we didn’t go to as many conventions as we had hoped for due to various reasons but we did manage to go to a few: LinCon, NärCon and MimiCon.

We love these events. Not only is it a ton of fun showing our games to new players it’s a chance for me (Ă…ke) and Per to meet in person. We live 500 km apart so it’s not that often we get the chance.

LinCon was great this year, our room was in a great spot and we had lots of visitors. We’ve been there many times and it’s an excellent convention for boardgamers.

NärCon is a festival for all things geek, and it’s great just watching all the cosplays. There are boardgamers here but they’re not a majority but a couple found us and kept the room relatively busy. A bonus was that after closing the room in the evenings we could sit down and zone out in front of Super Mario Bros 3 and during the worst heat we could cool down with a cool milkshake from the juice bar!

MimiCon is the new kid on the block, a small convention in Falun. They’re all over the place: Cosplay, lectures, geek-market, board games and role playing games but most of all a really good vibe. We got setup next to Bärserk Entertainment and had a great time with them. We’re looking forward to coming back this year!

The Games

Our games did really good this year not only did people seem to like them at the conventions, we also succeeded in getting them into stores all across Sweden (and some games were even sold to Denmark). Perilous Pond sold out in several stores during the year and we have had followup orders which feels really good.

We also sent games to reviewers and got mostly kind words for both Perilous Pond and Bushido Duels. Many reviews ended up on instagram but some were in written form on boardgamegeek.

The Future

During the second half of the year we started play-testing some new prototypes*, we can’t say that any of them will see the light of day. However, I can say this: It’s really nice working on new games again and not just worry about colour profiles, how yellow looks in bad lighting and so on…

we hope for more prototyping, more conventions and meeting more great people in 2026!

* Schhhh! Not so loud!