Whew. Three years of work has led to this moment. Badageetchy started as a silly idea I had, and sat on the shelf for a while before I had the confidence and mental energy to finish what I started. It's felt like this impossible dream for a long time, but now that it's here it feels like it was meant to be all along.
<-This is the original drawing of the board, circa August 2019. I sketched this up and sent it to my brother, Phillip, who worked at a sign company at the time. He took these shaky lines and made it into this:
With the help of my pals (Ladarius and Hudson are pictured here), I began to playtest it. The Shop names are the same as this day in 2019. I bought little tiny piggies and put pieces of tape on them to tell them apart. Bought some cardstock at an office store and hand-wrote every card. It was so confusing, lol. I owe a lot to my friends for getting into it when it had very strange and confusing rules and the cards simply had hand-written words on them. But what I did have: silliness, words and phrases I obsessed over (Yeet, Laryn B. Gitis, etc), and supportive friends, was more than enough.
It's crazy to me that it started like that and became this:
