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Dan Cassar
Game Designer
The best game is the one that you think about when you should be thinking about something else. The one that you can't let go, because it has become more than a pastime. It's a fascination. It's a reality that you conjure into being by sitting at a table with your friends. Once you step into that magic circle, the turn of a card can decide the fate of someone you love. It can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. It can be death, rebirth, anything at all. For the player, it's an entire world to explore.
The designer gets to play a different game. They get to create those players' reality. In a way, they get to play God.
Upcoming Games
Demoing at Gen Con Aug 1-4 Booth #632
The queen of the Seelie court and the king of the Unseelie fae have decided to end their historic rivalry and join their kingdoms by getting married. They have each invited delegations from among their various vassal faeries to come and celebrate the royal wedding at the grandest feast ever seen in a wooded glade.
The players take on the roles of faerie nobility who stand to lose the most from this arrangement, as their position in this new political order is anything but certain. But if you're willing to indulge in some well-timed mischief, you can try to help things move along to your own advantage. The king and queen will be hearing toasts and compliments all night, and faeries are known for their penchant for practical jokes. If you can end the night aligned with the correct factions who managed to look good to the king and queen, you can come out with your position assured.
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Starving Artists is a game of abstract thinking and shrewd resource management for 4-6 players that takes about 10 minutes per player. Manage a supply of unique magnetic pieces, using them to represent abstract titles and trading them in for new title cards if the ones you have aren't working. One player is the art critic, who must try to match each artwork with its title, avoiding decoys. Doing this successfully earns both the artist and the critic points. The player that communicated their vision and managed their resources best will be declared the winner!
Published Work
Cavemen: The Quest
for Fire
Rio Grande Games (2012)
2-5 players draft cards to hunt dinosaurs, invent new technologies, and expand their tribe while avoiding starvation and being eaten! Be the first to invent fire and usher in a new age of humanity!