Most board games invent their setting. Tenby did the opposite. Designer and illustrator Benjie Talbott, who lives in the Welsh seaside town of Tenby, turned his own home into a card game, and it is getting an exclusive launch at the Waterstones stand during UK Games Expo (29 to 31 May).
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Find events near youTenby is a card-drafting and tableau-building game for one to five players. On your turn you draft and place cards to build up streets of terraces, piers and the town's landmarks, with each card scoring on the features sitting next to it. The tableau slowly grows into a stylised version of the real town, painted throughout in Talbott's own artwork. It is a gentle, low-conflict puzzle that still leaves you real decisions about where each card goes.
The timing is no accident. Mighty Boards, which co-publishes Tenby, has just signed an exclusive UK distribution deal with Zatu Distribution, effective immediately. That puts Tenby and the rest of the Mighty Boards catalogue in front of far more British retailers, from specialist game shops to national chains. A Waterstones launch is a fitting touch for a game that wears its sense of place so proudly.
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See how it worksFor UK gamers, this is the kind of release that feels close to home. A cosy drafting game about a real British town, made by someone who lives there, is an easy recommendation for a relaxed evening. At the Expo, Tenby launches exclusively at the Waterstones stand (2-402), with Mighty Boards demoing across stands 3-634 and 2-472. Worth a look if you fancy building a little stretch of Welsh coastline of your own.
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