Garden Rush
2022 A card game we tried to get published
A social card game for 5-8 players, where you work together with your neighbours to build the nicest garden on the street, and sabotage everyone else.
The game
Everyone sits around the table with a neighbour on each side. You collect matching build cards to build things like a pool, a tree house or a fire pit, and when you build, your neighbours get half the points too, so it pays to trade cards with them. On the other hand, you can drop a "hundelort" in someone's garden, steal a card or put up a fence so they skip a turn.
Turns are at most 30 seconds and two actions, so the game is fast and loud.
How it started
It started on a study trip to a university in Skövde, Sweden, in March 2022. The task was to make a board game, and over two or three days we came up with Garden Rush and the broad strokes of the rules. When we came home, we decided to keep working on it, which we did for a long time.
Trying to make it a product
We ran it a bit like a small startup. I led most of the meetings and wrote the agendas, we compared drafts from six artists and chose one, wrote the manual, playtested it at game cafés, and worked on a pitch for GameHub Danmark and a list of publishers. It never got published, but I learned a lot about working as a team on something nobody asked us to make.
