Walk in the Rain Board Game

We're in the middle of the rainy season in San Francisco. I find myself walking home during the rain at least once a week. I walk, because traffic slows to a halt and taking the bus would take an hour or more.

Walking in the rain is interesting, but ultimately not pleasant. I was curious if I could make a Board game based on the experience. What emerged is the board game linked below. It's not broad or deep enough for a full game, more like a quick, 20 minute experience that plays with a mechanic.

The mechanic is good and bad karma, basically, how the choices you make when trying to get home impact others as well as yourself.

I think the concept is fun and the mechanic is entertaining. I want to take it further and make something bigger out of it. For now, here is Walk in the Rain. You can see the simple game board at this link here.

I want to thank my playtesters Mike P., Andrew deB., and Beth W.

Copyright 2011 Grant Rodiek

Space Encounters: Rules

Space Encounters! is the first game I designed on my own outside of job. It is a big and unwieldy game from which I learned a lot. It's not the best game! But, I'm putting it out there in case somebody wants to spend 5 hours making all the pieces and another hour or two playing it.

Overall the game is cumbersome and tries to combine too many things.

Please enjoy and comment if you play it!

Note: I wrote about the design process for Space Encounters! fairly extensively in three previous posts, found here, here, and here.

The rules and content for Space Encounters! can be read here.


I will post the board layout later!

Copyright 2010 Grant Rodiek