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?

December 21, 2022

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 open…

June 4, 2022

Any Other Name – Flower Cards

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

December 19, 2020

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!

December 18, 2020

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!

December 17, 2020

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.

December 16, 2020

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!

December 15, 2020

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 names…

December 14, 2020