Why I created Newsies & Bootblacks

Posted by on Feb 24, 2011 in Featured, Games, Minimalist Business, newsies and bootblacks | 0 comments

As many role-players, I had dreamed about creating my game, any game. My first idea was about explorers and traders in the high seas. It was meant as an expansion for a little game that went belly-up before I could finish mine. Then I created an introductory game that had a nice review in LĂ­der –the Spanish role-playing fanzine–, but back then I knew next to nothing about the Internet beyond some basic browsing and emailing. A few years later… I watched Children’s Underground, a long documentary about street children in Romania. It moved me enough to work as a...

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