News & Thoughts

June the 1st was one of our big moments since it was the official release of our game Capt'n Pepe Treasuren Ahoy! a legacy game for the whole family. Follow Captain Pepe and the rest of Melody's crew in an adventure that unfolds through 25 Chapters, unlocking new components and rules, marking your journey on your map poster and completing your sticker collection in the Loot album!

A Legacy game designed for families and children, so although it is as close as Legacy games for more experienced players, no components are destroyed, the story is easy to follow and in the end you still have a classic board game in your hands to enjoy every time you want!

HABA has done a really great work with the 3D Ship Model of Melody, and of course a lot of good quality wooden components, and supports the game with a webpage exclusively for the game where among others you are going to find the whole story of the game in a professional audiobook format.

We would like to say a big THANK YOU to our editor in HABA, Markus Singer, who really supported and listened to everything we threw at him and for the countless, creative and full of positive energy online meetings we had in order to transform All Hands Ahoy! into Capt'n Pepe Treasure Ahoy. 

Links on where you can find and buy the game will follow soon in a different post.

For now we hope you'll enjoy our game as much as we do!

Christos and Manolis.

So, it's been a while since our last news post, but besides not-posting news here, it was quite a busy year! This is what we 've been up to for the last year:

September 2022: 6th Thessaloniki Comic Convention

We participated with a booth and had countless play-testing with visitors in the largest comic convention in our hometown having a great time! We also held a Q&A discussion panel where we gave answers to frequently asked questions that game designers who begin their game-designing journey have.

October 2022: Spiel '22, Essen

After a 2 years hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we visited at last again the great board games fair Spiel in Essen. Meeting lots of editors pitching our prototypes, playing and buying board games and being part as visitors in one of the biggest events in our beloved board games universe.

December 2022: Comic 'n' Play Fair in Thessaloniki

We participated with a booth also in this comic convention which we love for its cosy atmosphere. Again we were play-testing prototypes and having fan with the fair's visitors, exhibitors and a lot of our friends! We organised a Game Design workshop where people that participated had the opportunity to design their own game (well at least the 0.1 version) through the weekend. We also helped in the development of the fair's little board-game in order to celebrate the 20 years of the fair.  

January 2023: Toys Fair in Nurnberg - Debut of Capt'n Pepe and Melody Crew

Our family legacy board game Cap'tn Pepe Treasure Ahoy! debuted for presentation and marketing purposes only on the Toys Fair in Nurneberg. The game's publisher HABA built a wonderfull booth in the theme of the game and we were really jealous for not being there. Thankfully, our dearest editor Markus shared photos with us and made us smile for a month!

May 2023: 7th Thessaloniki Comic Convention

We participated again with a booth and play-testings with in the comic convention that followed (yes we had a lot of hunger for cons) and guess what...we had a lot of fun! We held a small discussion panel about mistakes to avoid when designing board games for people who are doing their first steps in game design and again had a workshop where the participants designed their own games in teams.

June 2023: Capt'n Pepe Treasure Ahoy! Official Release by HABA!

In June our family legacy game was official released by HABA an event we consider up to date one of our biggest achievements! More details about it will follow in a next post...

July 2023: Playing Capt'n Pepe Treasure Ahoy! with the Summer Camp of Spitodentro

We had the opportunity to have a day with the kids participating in the Summer Camp of Spitodentro, a kindergarten in our hometown. Watching kids play your game and having fun really completes the whole game designing experience!

August 2022 - August 2023: Game Design to the bones!

And of course, non-stop designing and play-testing board games, because that is what we do! We managed to develop quite a number of games the last year and some of them are going to come with us in this year's Spiel in Essen.

That's it for now! There is more to come! Stay tuned!

Christos and Manolis.

We are glad to welcome you to the new website of Goblins on Board or what we call our small, humble corner in the Internet.

Although a long time has passed since we have been idle in our online lives, we assure you that in our real lives we have been really active and we never stopped designing games. Actually all this time we have designed lots of new games, which cover a big range of types and categories. If you navigate through this website you are going to find more about some of them.

So, keep in touch, since more news and thoughts will follow. If you want to stay up to date on our doings, feel free to visit our website as much as you want, like us on Facebook and/or follow us on Intsagram.

See you around,

Christos and Manolis.