Cold Quest: the Arctic Ice Floe-Maneuvering Game

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Cold Quest is an Arctic-themed board game where players move ice floes (domino tiles) to be the first to cross the board. They must avoid the polar bear and use Kayaks, Fish and Snowshoes to move faster. Maker provides short demos and game play.

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Jacob Yaple

I couldn't afford video games growing up, and created board game copies of them instead. At my workplace at the Rochester Central Library, I started a board game club to make new friends. Those friends introduced me to board game stores, critique clubs, and game conventions. In 2012, while playing a game of dominoes, the tiles suddenly looked like a field of ice floes to me. Cold Quest was born! Countless hours of testing and modding later, I presented Cold Quest to the Rochester Maker Faire in 2019. This will be Cold Quest's second live Maker Faire.

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What inspired you to make this project?
I am creative and curious by nature, and I love games. I was playing dominoes when the draw pile of blank-side-up white dominoes suddenly looked like a sea of ice floes. I felt inspired to make a game about ice floes, like dominoes but much different. After months of intense game design, I put aside the game for a while, but always returned to it to make it better.