A few board game podcasts with the Underground
Uplink Underground’s own Arthur Franz appeared on a couple recent podcasts to talk about our projects and game design in general. Check them out below! Indie Board Game Designers podcast: Art appeared on Episode 43 (40:32) of this podcast that
How libraries can build community through gaming
At Uplink Underground Games, we love libraries almost as much as we love board games. We encourage our local branches to champion themselves as Centers of Excellence in board gaming. To that end, we humbly offer a few modest proposals
Hurry-Up Offense Gets A Facelift
Brainchild of Arthur Franz, our resident football guru, Hurry-Up Offense is an excellent dice-based simulation of the last 2 minutes of a football game. One player serves as the offensive play-caller, trying to lead their team (trailing by 4 points)
Mardi Gras Madness makes perfect sense
This is a question we recently posed to ourselves, and to the world in general: Why is there not a quality Mardi Gras-themed board game out there? Well, there is no good answer to this. The only thing to do
Lessons Learned – Breakaway Football and Kickstarter
Designing and developing Breakaway Football has been a labor of love, and I am very excited about how the game has turned out. In late March, we plan to make the game available to our faithful fans for print on
Final 48 hours for Breakaway Football on Kickstarter
Alright folks, we are approaching the finish line… or rather, time is running out and the finish line is way up there, in the distance, mocking us with its seeming unreachableness. However, whether we are able to sprint forward and break
Kickstarter for Breakaway Football off to a great start
After one week, the Kickstarter campaign for Breakaway Football is around 25% funded! Definitely looking forward to delivering this game to all our amazing donors. Of course, we’ve got a long way to go and a long time to get there
Breakaway Football Kickstarter campaign is LIVE
Uplink Underground Games proudly announces the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to produce our very first board game: Breakaway Football. The culmination of 9 months of design, development, and testing, this endeavor is finally ready to take the gaming world
Breakaway Football – Testing and Development
In the “Design” post for Breakaway Football, we talked about where the inspiration for the game came from, the different constraints that helped us find something unique, and finally how the four of us contributed specific items to the core
Breakaway Football – Origins and Design
Breakaway Football is the culmination of about 9 months of almost daily design and development. We have poured nearly one thousand design hours and scores of play-testing hours into making the game simple and fun. My first passion is football.