Speakers

Jan Soukal

Jan Soukal

Lead Designer, co-founder
Boardcubator

A co-founder and CEO of Boardcubator, a crowdfunding-specialized board game design and development studio with record including board games such as Space Race or the Essen Spiel 2021 hot list leader title Project L. Besides that, also a coffee lover, father and a lead game designer of Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The Board Game.

SOME OF THE GAMES Jan WORKED ON

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – The Board Game
Project L
Space Race
Tabletop

Transposing digital game mechanics into a board game environment. Easy. Or is it?

A real living world in a tabletop manner? Realistic character building unplugged? Do the game mechanics even work similarly in the two such different environments? This is a story of difficulties, issues, revelations, and unexpected surprises we encountered during the process of transposing some of the mechanics from the original digital title Kingdom Come: Deliverance to the board game spin-off.