Any Other Name – Drayer Ink

Play-testing at BGG.CON

An update on the prototypes we play-tested at BGG.CON and the ones we left at home – where are we now? What’s coming next for Drayer Ink games?

Here are the playable and “coming soon” Drayer Ink projects, as at June the 3rd, 2022. Playable prototypes: These are all physical prototypes at various stages of testing. Once they are ready, we plan to crowd-fund their production, but we are also waiting in the hope that the shipping situation will improve. We are openContinue reading “Our current projects”

Any Other Name – Flower Cards

Flower cards are both the most important and the most difficult element of Any Other Name – here’s why!

Any Other Name – testing, testing

We tested Any Other Name, and it went well – really well! Only a few tweaks to the rules and cards, and we can test it again!

Any Other Name – the draft components

After letting the game simmer away in the background, I made a couple of little breakthroughs that meant it was ready to print for testing!

Any Other Name – draft rules

We tested the draft rules over the weekend of December 12th, 2020. Here are the rules as we tested them.

Any Other Name – a tender seedling

I decided to expand a light-hearted joke into a fun family game. Here’s a bit about how it evolved!

Any Other Name – the roots

Star-crossed Flowers I have another game in progress, and it’s called “Any Other Name”. This is, of course a reference to the often-quoted paraphrase of a Shakespearean quote, “a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet”. It is extracted from a scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet argues that their family namesContinue reading “Any Other Name – the roots”