Get ready, folks! Set your calendars for August 11th, because that’s when our beloved sportsball boardgame, Breakaway Football, will be available via Crowd Sale on TheGameCrafter.com website! A Crowd Sale is similar to a Kickstarter, but the amount you pay for the product goes down the more people buy it. […]
A review on the popular board game site BoardGameGeek.com dished out some serious love for Breakaway Football this week. Regular contributor Clinton Paris lavished praise on our little endeavor, calling it a “Hidden Gem” and a “rousing success on many levels.” Not that we don’t agree with him, but it’s […]
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 focuses on indie designers and their products and processes. He […]
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 in how to energize your local community around the gaming […]
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) down the field to score the winning touchdown. The opponent […]
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 is fix the problem. Which is what we, as native […]
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 demand through The Game Crafter (www.thegamecrafter.com). But as for the […]
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 that metaphorical tape, or are left staring, forlorn, at the […]
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 (23 more days!), so now is no time to rest […]
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 by storm. We here at the Underground are convinced this […]
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 game, creating a fun football experience. End of story, right? […]
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. I have coached high school tackle and flag for boys […]