{"id":1137,"date":"2021-08-17T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brown-sheep-511001.hostingersite.com\/carla\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2022-08-24T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:02:07","slug":"getting-into-development-with-david-bruglia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weirdgiraffegames.com\/carla\/2021\/08\/17\/getting-into-development-with-david-bruglia\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting into Development with David Bruglia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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David Bruglia is the designer of Spook Manor, Project Pacific, and Scents & Sensibility, and he’s developed Wicked & Wise<\/a> and Fire in the Library: The Card Game.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First of all, tell us a bit about yourself! How did you get into designing and later on, developing, board games?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was actually into video game design before board game design. I worked on a few projects with friends here and there and attended a couple of game jams. I did most of my level and world building in the Unity engine. I loved being creative, but I hated learning how to code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily for me, I reconnected with a friend from college at work one day and she invited me to some of their weekly board game lunches. I soon learned that her and her husband also designed their own games. As we started to hang out a little more, I started to playtest their designs and even helped them ship off a Kickstarter (I’m not sure why, but I had a REALLY good time packing a bunch of figurines into boxes for hours on end). Seeing their creation come to life and get shipped off to people really started my interest in board game design (Thank you Sarah and Will!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I started designing games, I found out that there were local board game conventions and protospiels in our area. I quickly learned that I LOVED going to conventions. Shortly after that, I heard about a larger convention called Origins and in 2018, I decided to attend for the first time. Being there felt electric! I loved seeing all of the excited attendees and all of the publishers showing off their games. One publisher, in particular, stood out because of the funny looking giraffe they had for a mascot. Fast forward almost a year later, and that same publisher asked if anyone wanted to come hang out and demo games in their booth at Origins 2019. I jumped at the opportunity! Before I knew it, I was in the Weird Giraffe Games booth, teaching attendees how to play Fire in the Library, and it was amazing! I finally felt like I was a part of something that I’ve always wanted, without knowing that I wanted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David at Origins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I spent more and more time talking to Carla and playtesting, providing feedback for upcoming products from Weird Giraffe Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the pandemic hit and almost everything went online, I started assisting Weird Giraffe Games in a more official capacity. Then finally, in December 2020, I was offered my first official development role with Wicked & Wise, and I couldn’t be happier (Thank you, Carla!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wicked & Wise was the first game that you’ve been a developer on. How did you feel about the process?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The process was a lot different than just being a designer. It was very interesting and challenging (in a good way!) to work on a game from the “other side.” It quickly became apparent that this wasn\u2019t just co-designing another game and that there were going to be a lot more questions to answer and decisions to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was there any part of the development process that was unexpected for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting into a lot of the minute details was just something I was not used to doing as a designer, where I’m usually just simply trying to figure if something feels good. With design you\u2019re combining a collection of ideas that work relatively well together. But, when we go to development, those ideas get picked apart: <\/p>\n\n\n\n