August 12, 2022 by Polar_Bear
CMON is working on a new game based on the popular Dune universe. It’s Dune: War for Arrakis and we’re getting a look into the inner workings in this first in a Design Diary series.
Dear Diary:
Hello everyone! I’m Francesco Nepitello, and this is the first installment of a series of design diaries about a game I’ve been working on for a long time, together with designer Marco Maggi and developer Michele Garbuggio. I’m talking about Dune: War for Arrakis, the next big project that CMON will bring to Kickstarter!
This a special endeavour for us… the novel by Frank Herbert occupies a prominent place in the heart of all Science Fiction fans, and we at CMON are no exception. Me and Marco found ourselves in a similar spot before – when we designed War of the Ring, the strategy game based on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
With Dune we had to capture once again what made the novel not just an enjoyable book like many others, but a true milestone of the genre! With this article and the ones that will follow we will illustrate the process that we adopted to preserve the epic feel of the story and pass it on to the tabletop
Source: Tabletop Gaming News
