“We were offered space at nGen, which is the Niagara region’s ‘interactive media generator,'” Evans said. The company was just offered office space in St. Īnd although we enjoyed the ambiance at the board-game café, Phantom Compass won’t be working out of a mess of Catan chits exclusively anymore. The game will also include boss battles reminiscent of the old black-and-white Gameboy classic Kirby’s Pinball Land. “It’s basically like pinball where there are little dudes on the screen trying to attack your flippers,” Walsh said. You bring her onto the board and there are enemies on the screen that she’s bouncing off of.” So one might be a village, where your ball is a little orphan. “Each board is like a scene in a medieval realm. For example the rogue can “call in her dog” and which acts as an additional ball on the board. In addition, there is character progression through levels.”Įvans explained that this progression isn’t “stats” based: you aren’t going to be upgrading a strength or dexterity number, but that each character in the game has additional abilities they gain as the story progresses.
“The kind of core of an RPG in our minds is the story. “Rollers of the Realm is what we’re calling a Pinball/RPG blend.” Evans said. “Jos and I had worked together off and on through the early years of the company, and 2012 was the year that I realized I couldn’t reasonably run the company exclusively with freelancers,” Walsh said, citing the higher costs of freelancer hours versus hours from permanent staff and the fact that he wanted people to be able to work on homegrown projects when the company didn’t have contract work.
1, and then I brought contractors in to do different types of projects.”Īfter the first few years, Walsh slowly expanded his permanent crew to include technical director Jos Yule and producer Erika Evans, who joined us at Snakes & Lattes and a crew of other team members who bring the total employee count up to eight. And having to flip that around and invest in my company ,” said Walsh as customers started to file into Snakes & Lattes and pick out board games. “I was making a good amount of income as a freelancer. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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