Theme vs Mechanic Designing a board game is far more than writing rules—it’s about creating a living system that feels intuitive, immersive, and meaningful. In this first Design Diary , we take you behind the scenes of how Fintastic Sea  was created and how real marine biology directly shaped its mechanics, balance, and player decisions . Although the game is already finished and available, its development took tons of iteration, testing, stress, redesigns, and discoveries. W

Underwater As fulfillment of Finatstic Sea  has begun and some of you have already received your game, we want to share an important note about the cards. Some people noticed a small discrepancy in the rulebook regarding card quantities: The rulebook states: 24 Secret Fish  cards  → 4 copies each of: Manta, Flatfish, Hermit Crab, Salmon, Starfish, Turtle 6 Special Fish  cards  → 1 copy each: Octopus, Jellyfish, Seahorse, Eel, Flying Fish, Coral During the campaign we unlocked

Pixel War Today, we’ve got something fun for you — a Wanderlust-themed challenge  we’re calling the Pixel War ! We wanted to showcase the beautiful city illustrations  from our board game Wanderlust: Discover the World , and what better way than turning them into a guessing game? So here’s what happened:We asked René  to pick out some of the art from the game and pixelate  them beyond recognition. Then Julian  and I had to guess which city each pixelated image was supposed to

Let us unbox Fintastic Sea The Wait Is Almost Over! We can finally say it — Fintastic Sea  is real, printed, packed, and ready to swim...

How to teach Wanderlust Preparing for SPIEL ‘25 With SPIEL ‘25  just around the corner, our team — and our amazing Pektis helpers — have...

It has been a month since our Kickstarter campaign finished. While we are still preparing the pledge manager to send out to our backers,...

We want to start the year 2023 right! Finally, we can proudly announce that the Kickstarter Pre-Lauch page of WANDERLUST is ready!!! For...

I (Julian) started developing Wanderlust around three years ago. At that time every one of us three began with their own game which...

Wanderlust is now also available for playtesting at TTS!!! The link to the Steam Workshop Site is https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

After a break from the diaries, we finally finished most of our art!!! Echo did a great job by drawing all of our destinations. Mahmoud...

After many big steps in the development of wanderlust - which I forgot to document (Sry xP) we are almost at the point where the art of...

This year is the first time we visit Essen Spiel as Pektis. We left very early from Frankfurt to have enough time to see as much as...

Update of Player Board After the internal play test I realized that the mutation chain is just way too long to reach all mutations at the...

THE FIRST PROTOTYPE: After developing the initial concept and idea a bit more, it was time to make the first prototype of the game to try...

Who doesn’t like to travel? I definitely do. Actually, I mostly play Euro- and Wargames, therefore, I obviously wanted to develop one of...

Dang dang dang! Now allow us to introduce our third game in the cooking: INFECTIOUS Since this game is still in the middle of development...

Welcome to SCRAPSVILLE! Scraps is a fun game medium-weight game about putting together different scraps to create robots, competing in...