Danielle Reynolds
We are excited to be welcoming Danielle Reynolds to this year’s Designer Alley at #G2S2023!
A little bit about Danielle, written in her own words.
I am an LGBTQ+ game designer located in Springfield, MA. Currently, I work for Underdog Games as their Head of Kids Game Design & Development where I help inspire curiosity designing family games. Beyond my day job, I am the host of a podcast called “Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication'' hosted on the Know Direction Network. In the podcast I talk with tabletop game designers on specific games or series of games they have created. Listeners will learn where the initial idea for the game came from, how the game developed over time and where the game is now after being published. I am also a Director with Tabletop Gaymers promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion by championing the visibility and recognition of the LGBTQIA+ community through tabletop gaming. I also volunteer as an admin for Board Game Broads+ which is a space for women, gender non-conforming, non-binary and trans folks in the tabletop game industry on Facebook. Plus, I am on the board of Unpub helping plan/run playtesting spaces and panels at conventions. I’m also a mentor for the Tabletop Mentorship Program and volunteer for Women in Games International and the Young Inventor Challenge hosted by the People of Play Conference. I kinda live and breathe gaming!
THREE RANDOM FACTS ABOUT DANIELLE:
She won a talent show by singing like Alvin and the Chipmunks while hula hooping.
Danielle can do the worm.
She can do 20 chin ups.
DANIELLE WILL BE SHOWING OFF HER GAME HER STORY IN DESIGNER ALLEY AT #G2S2023
HerStory: In HerStory, you're an acclaimed author, writing a book to tell the stories of remarkable women of history. Players take turns doing research, drafting chapters, and completing them for points and possibly for research symbols or special powers. The game ends when a player has written eight chapters, and the player with the highest scoring book wins.
The game is a light strategy game featuring engine-building and set collection. You do research by collecting research tokens, and by doing the right research, you can complete chapters about different historical women, for points.
Completed chapters grant abilities that make you a better writer, and allow you to score even more points as the game progresses. You can set yourself for big point windfalls with the right combination of powers.
The game comes with 120 oversized, linen-finish cards with beautiful illustrations of the featured historical figures on the fronts, and stories about their lives on the backs.
HerStory is published by Underdog Games
YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DANIELLE OR HER GAMES HERE: https://linktr.ee/dmrcreativegroup
