idnes: former students design Brno-themed game

The Czech news website idnes has reported that two former fellow students in Brno scored a minor hit this Christmas season with a board game set in the Czech Republic’s second-largest city. According to the site, the two set out a year ago to design a game loosely inspired by the well-known title Scotland Yard (from 1983, in which players take the roles of investigators trying to the capture a hidden fugitive). According to idnes, the Czech board game (called Šalingrad) was released in a limited run of 300 copies and has almost sold out on the internet as well as at two local shops.

By comparison, a number of professional board game designers in the Czech Republic have made their names internationally in recent years in hobby gaming, most notably Vladimír Chvátil (Prophesy, Mage Knight) and Vladimír Suchý (Last Will).

Author: Jan Velinger