A big shout out to the team at the Southern Board Game Festival! I was honored to be featured as part of their Geaux Pub area for game creators. Between Saturday and Sunday I was able to play test Geaux Parade around 20 times.

This past weekend I attended the game development gathering ProtoATL. It was great seeing some of the friends I made at this event last year and meeting some great new people.

Starting March 21 I will be at ProtoATL in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. ProtoATL is a game design and play testing conference.

Geaux Parade artist Alan Gomes has come up with two great options for the design of the game box.

Things are moving quickly towards the Kickstarter Launch of Geaux Parade. The final touches have been made to the project page and all system are go.

Recently I sat down with Mark Bologna of the Beyond Bourbon Street Podcast to share Geaux Parade. Mark and I have known each other for many years.

Several of the Float Unit Cards in the game will be Tandem Floats.

Unit Card Preview

Gentilly Games would like to formally reveal the logo for Geaux Parade!

I had an idea for a second New Orleans themed game, but I wasn’t sure how to implement the game without it becoming an immense and expensive game. As you may know the more “parts” a game has the more expensive it becomes. As I had originally conceived this game it was going to have a game board that was around 24 inches wide and tall. This would be larger than a Monopoly or Scrabble board. Then there would be the pieces used in the game with somewhere around 40 to 60 total. This was getting expensive, so I put it on the back burner of my mind and kept my focus on Geaux Parade. Then I went to ProtoATL.

Over the weekend of May 16 – 19 2024, I travelled to Atlanta Georgia to take part in ProtoATL, a game design convention. The event began Thursday evening and continued through Sunday afternoon. I brought along 3 copies of the second beta version of Geaux Parade to playtest. Over the four days of the event, I was able to play test the game around 20 times. I also play tested many games for several different game developers.

Mardi Gras is what the entire year in New Orleans revolves around. Before the last floats roll back into their dens the planning for the next year has already begun. From the themes to the throws everything must be planned well in advance of parade day.

Growing up in New Orleans is unique to say the least. It isn’t until you live somewhere else that you realize how special it is. While growing up on Mexico Street in Gentilly I took many things for granted. Whether it was the amazing food, or the unique celebrations New Orleans was in my blood. No matter where in the world I travelled I always compared it to home, and it usually fell well short.