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D-Day Dice Kickstarter - An Interview with Designer Emmanuel Aquin

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The entirety of this article can be found at www.nerdbloggers.com.

I have been keeping tabs on a few of the new board game projects utilizing Kickstarter as a platform to springboard publication. One such title is D-Day Dice, designed by Emmanuel Aquin, and scheduled for publication by Valley Games. The D-Day Dice Kickstarter hit the ground running with incredible momentum, achieving its target funding within 24 hours - but there are still a lot of great goodies to be unlocked within the next few weeks if the stretch goals are reached.

D-Day Dice is a dice based multi-player co-op WWII themed game focused around the organization of resources at hand to build and direct a unit of Allied forces against a German machine gun nest. In it's simultaneous play model, players must effectively manage the resources that are rolled on the dice, and work together to choose how best to utilize their resources.

Game designer Emmanuel Aquin was kind enough to speak with nerdbloggers.com about himself, his game, and the design process of D-Day Dice.

For the complete interview, please visit: http://www.nerdbloggers.com/nerdbloggers/2011/11/6/d-day-dic....
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Erik Racer
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Thanks for posting. I enjoyed getting a bit of insight into the designer. My only complaint is why do other people's lives always sound more interesting than mine.
 
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  • Posted Tue Nov 8, 2011 2:03 am
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interview wrote:
Nerdbloggers:

Last question. This one isn't related to board games. November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month); aside from your own, what are your favorite novels?

Emmanuel Aquin:

Many are French, as one would expect:

- Mémoires d'un tricheur, by Sacha Guitry (was made into a film by Guitry in 1936)
- L'étranger, by Albert Camus (The Stranger or the Outsider, in English)
- Dieu et nous seuls pouvons, by Michel Folco (about an executioner dynasty in France)
- The Egyptian, by Mika Waltari (adapted into a movie that I never saw)
- The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury

A novel I enjoyed recently was World War Z, by Max Brooks. That one took me by surprise.

I also enjoy good short stories, like the ones from Guy de Maupassant, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov and Roald Dahl.

I have to admit, though, that I much prefer non-fiction. I read mostly historical books, biographies and essays. Go figure.


A great reading list... Good to see Roald Dahl among them.
 
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  • Posted Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:40 pm
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