You’re just about to finish a perfect day in Canberra when suddenly, at the throw of a die, a political upheaval occurs and you have to go back three spaces. That’s the rough premise of a new boardgame being developed by local entrepreneurs, David Tynan and Marisa Martin.
Choose your counter – penis owl is predicted to be the favourite – and play the game of chance where your quest is to complete a perfect day by collecting cards and beating your opponents.
The boardgame is in the early stages of development and David and Marisa are seeking the public’s input because, David admits, they couldn’t think of enough southside landmarks.
“We’re reaching out for more ideas and the reason we’ve posted it on Facebook’s Canberra Community Noticeboard is because we’re not southsiders,” David laughs. “Even though we’ve both gone to school and grown up in Canberra, we realised that our knowledge of the southside was sketchy.
“We’ve got the sheep at Kambah shops and there’s a confusion as to the other sculpture on Drakeford Drive, whether it’s goldfish or moths.” (Alexander Knox’s “Moth Ascending the Capital”.)
David is a public servant by day and says he is a “strong defender of the Berra” – even though he and Marisa live in Queanbeyan.
Players of the boardgame can choose to be a public servant, politician or student, amongst other characters. If you’re a student, you start at the ANU or UC, if you’re a politician you start at the airport or Parliament House, and so on.
The aim of the game is to collect the required number of themed cards to complete your “perfect day” before your opponents do. Just hope that you don’t land on a space where you have to pick up a drama card. If you get stuck in the crowd at the Birdman Rally, you could be stranded for ages.
“A drama could be a historic political event that has occurred which affects you or other players. We want to draw upon Canberra’s history,” David says.
You probably don’t want to land on The Dismissal. Game over.
To submit your favourite places for the game, visit Burley & Brave on Facebook.
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