My Responsibilities
- Game Design
- Prototyping
- Rulebook Writing
- Art Direction
- File Preparation
- Crowdfunding Design
- Manufacturing Management
- Fulfillment Coordination
Description
Retrograde is a real-time roll-and-write inspired by classic 80s arcade games. Evil Astrodroids are invading earth. Grab the joystick and blast as many as you can. Can you get the high score?
Each round, roll your dice as fast as you can. Race to roll combos shown on the target cards, claim the best card, and spend your dice to put the ‘Droids on your sheet out of commission. Be fast, or an opponent might beat you to the card you want. If you’re the last player without a card, you can only reroll 2 more times before you’re stuck with what you rolled.
Awards and Recognition
Retrograde won the Best Family Game award at the Boston Festival of Indie Games in 2022.
Design Story
Retrograde was a co-design of mine that combines two of my favorite genres of board game: roll-and-write (like Yahtzee) and real-time games. My responsibilities on Retrograde included designing several stackable abilities that—once unlocked—would increase players’ power levels in the game and begin to build synergies… but at the same time force them to reevaluate their real-time dice rolling strategy. I also hand-designed 100 unique layouts of Astro-Droid sheets to ensure that players never played the same sheet twice.