We’re part of the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest running 21 - 26 October 🎲🎮

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Auroch Digital are part of The Steam Digital Tabletop Fest running from October 21st at 6pm until October 26th at 6pm!

Digital Tabletop Fest is an online event that celebrates games which play with the line between digital and physical games; this can be a digital port of (or based on) a physical game, a game which has produced a physical version from the digital one, a game that simulates the physical play experience or a digital game who’s aesthetics are inspired by physical tabletop games. 

We’re hoping to create a community of players that enjoy experiences that portal between/around the digital and physical and back again! 

Check below for the talks and livestreams we are a part of!

The Mars games panel 🚀⭐

Mars is often featured in both videogames and boardgames around Mars. But why are we fascinated with the red planet and landing humans on it? How long until this is a reality and how do games represent the challenges of getting to, landing on, and living on Mars? Find out all about games and Mars with four incredible experts from different areas of gaming and space featuring Terraforming Mars, Tharsis, Mars Horizon, and Mars Horizon: Blast Off!

Dark Future: Blood Red States stream with Graeme Davis💥🚗

A deep dive into Dark Future Blood Red States, the digital adaptation of the 1988 Games Workshop cult classic board game ‘Dark Future’ and also look into the subgenre of car combat games. The stream also includes a special guest, Graeme Davis, one of the developers on the original 1988 Games Workshop physical game.

  • Date: Thursday 22nd October

  • Time: 1pm BST/ 5am PDT

  • Host and guests: Allie and Tom from Auroch Digital

Mars Horizon stream - Video game vs. Board game🚀🎲

Game Designer Tomas Rawlings talks to devs Jem and Allie about the creation of Mars Horizon the video game and Mars Horizon: Blast Off the board game!

Both games are about running your own space agency and landing the first crewed mission on Mars. Hear about the differences between the games and how they adapted the themes and gameplay for physical and digital. You can also learn how Auroch Digital worked with the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to make both games accurate, accessible, and how they captured the excitement of mission control!

  • Date: Friday 23rd October

  • Time: 11pm BST/ 3pm PDT

  • Host and guests: Jem, Allie and Tom from Auroch Digital

Mars Horizon: BLAST OFF! was inspired by our video game Mars Horizon - it’s creation came about through pen and paper prototypes of the digital version. Get your own copy of Mars Horizon: BLAST OFF! in our shop.

The Cthulhu Panel 🐙

From a little known pulp character to a global cultural phenomena, H.P.Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos have become the source for countless books, films, comics and - of course - games. It's time to explore the cyclopean horror and what it means in 2020;

  • Date: Friday 23rd October

  • Time: 10pm BST/ 2pm PDT

  • Host and guests:

    • Tomas Rawlings (Moderator) From Auroch Digital and developer on Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics

    • Sandy Petersen From Petersen Games and creator of the original Call of Cthulhu RPG and many, many Cthulhu titles including Cthulhu Wars

    • Chris Lackey From the cult weird fiction podcast, HPPodcraft

    • Pia Jacqmart From Cyanide Studios and writer on Call of Cthulhu

    • Chris Spivey From Darker Hue Studios, writer of the award winning Harlem Unbound supplement for Call of Cthulhu

    • Dan Ackerman Creator of the ‘Silicon Valley meets Lovecraft’ boardgame Techlandia

Steve Jackson Interview with Big Boss Battle

Game design legend Steve Jackson, creator of beloved classics such as Munchkin, Car Wars, GURPS and the giant cybernetic tank wargame, Ogre (as well as many, many more!) joins us to chat about his remarkable career so far.
Interview by Jupiter Hadley of Big Boss Battle.

  • Date:

    • Thursday 22nd October 12am BST/
      Wednesday 21st October 4pm PDT

The Adventure Game Panel ⚔ 🛡

Sheath your sword, grab some extra first aid kits, and buckle-up your walking boots as a panel of developers explore the depths and adventure and narrative;

  • Date: Thursday 22nd October

  • Time: 4pm BST/ 8am PDT

  • Host and guests:

    • Tomas Rawlings (Moderator) From Auroch Digital, Designer of the digital version of Chainsaw Warrior

    • Dean WoodwardFrom League of Geeks on Armello

    • Morgan Jaffit From Defiant Development with Hand of Fate 2

    • Gregory Shives From Antihero Studios with The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game

    • Carl Jackson From Nomad Games on the classic Talisman

Dice & Probability in Game Design 🎲🎲

Join the panel that rolls 6s every time as we explore the role (roll?) of dice and probability in both physical and digital games, including:

  • Date:

    • Thursday 22nd October 3am BST/
      Wednesday 21st October 7pm PDT

  • Host and guests:

    • Nina Collins (Moderator) Auroch Digital, developers of the digital version of Ogre

    • Steve Jackson Founder of Steve Jackson Games, Legendary game designer and creator of a whole host of classic games including Ogre], Cthulhu Dice and Zombie Dice

    • Zach Gage Independent (Tharsis collaborator)

    • Marlowe Dobbe Developer (with Terry Cavanagh) of Dicey Dungeons

    • Gian Paolo Vernocchi From DESTINYbit, developers of the upcoming Dice Legacy

Join our Discord

If you want to talk to like minded people about board games and video games you can join the Auroch Digital Discord and you'll have lots of people to chat to.

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Alice Liguori