Board Game Arena

Hi all,

First of all, thank you all for developing games for BGA. BGA has helped so many of us stay connected to our friends through our favourite hobby in these crazy times, including me!

At Alley Cat Games, we're keen to share our games for free with the BGA community, but we need your help as we don't have the skills to do this ourselves...

Are there any developers available who are interested in developing Dice Hospital and other Alley Cat Games titles for Board Game Arena?

Dice Hospital is our most popular title by far.

Cat Café is our most popular lightweight game so would be ideal for a developer looking to learn BGA development.

Chocolate Factory is our most complex game but has a very cool conveyor belt mechanism that would be an interesting challenge for an expert.

Alley Cat Games would be pleased to offer any developer who completes a project a physical copy of the game they complete as a thank you for the time and effort put in (assuming this is allowed under BGA developer rules!)

I'll be available to answer any questions during development! Thanks again for all of your hard work

Dear Simon,

I'm already working on a digital adaptation of your awesome Dice Hospital game. I've spent a week coming up with a strong foundation of the game. I'm a software engineer with 15 years of experience in the field, designing and developing games in other platforms such as Unity, Javascript (web), GameMaker and Macromedia Flash, and I'm also a teacher at the University teaching how to build videogames.

My approach is to adapt the game as close as possible to the original, introducing small changes as needed to be able to deliver a great experience on the digital platform, for example, Dice Hospital's blood bags will be displayed as a counter with a blood bag icon on the player board.

I hope I have been succesful on comunicating my ideas, since english is not my native language.

Also, on behalf of my teammate, I'd like to point out that she is eager to work on the adaptation of Cat Café as her first project on BGA, since she finds the game cute and charming, and she would love to be in charge of delivering the digital experience of the game.

Hope to get a word from you soon,
Iván and María from Spain.

Iván and María, thank you so much! I'll be sure to get the physical games of Dice Hospital and Cat Café to you as soon as they are completed! I look forward to trying them on BGA

Hi Iván and María,

How are you getting on with Dice Hospital and Cat Café?

Is there anything you need to help speed things up?

-Simon