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Not many miniatures games start withFortnite.
A lot of the funding for his miniature-based passion project came from that enormous hit.
It was only when Fortnites success allowed for an early retirement that he set about chasing his dream.
But Zeo Genesis isnt your average miniatures game.
The playtest rules for Zeo Genesis areavailable for free.
You just want to make something that’s actually fun, Block says of his design philosophy.
You want to make a game people actually play.
And that is the core of everything.
We want to make miniatures people actually enjoy putting together, actually enjoy painting.
You want to make a game that people actually enjoy playing.
And we want to tell a story that people can engage with one way or another.
People make games for different reasons, he says.
Some of them want to try and make money they’re the genuine madmen.
Some of them actually make it work.
For Thorpe, it was the chance to build Zeo Genesis world from the ground up.
So it was already within my sphere of interest, he explains.
This sphere of interest seems relatively untapped in the small-scale hobby.
I had to pose the team the Trench Crusade question.
Whether people realise it or not, it is the Golden Age, Block says.
I’ll give you some money to buy some miniatures or a rule book.
That tells me that it’s the best time ever [to make a miniatures game].
Of course, for every Trench Crusade, there are a dozen independent miniature games that dont make it.
It being a so-called Golden Age doesnt mean every game will be an automatic success.
If that was the case, Elon Musk would have bought a miniatures company instead of Twitter.
Dont worry, its not a battle pass.
And it’s not always tied to whatever the new miniature releases.
It’s not always tied to commercial product.
Its something that Chambers also has experience with from his time at Games Workshop.
I always go back to the White Dwarf factor, he says.
We had a monthly magazine, we had to fill it with something.
So we were constantly adding extra new bits.
Zeo Genesis has a lot going for it.
So create a game that’s interesting and fun.
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