We're sorry to have to disappoint you
if you've been impressed by the description of our game and have come
to this page with a view to ordering the Evolution Game.
Unfortunately we have
decided to discontinue production for the time being. The main reason is that we've run
out of some of the basic components. By 'we' I mean Phill Lewis and
myself (Simon Boswell), who are the inventors and producers. It's
been a very tiny operation which we carried out as a hobby, not as a
business venture. We certainly still believe in the game. We have a cell of enthusiasts in Helsinki who
play it almost weekly and have done so for over ten years (without
ever getting tired of it)! There are now 50 copies of the game in
existence spread across the globe, mainly in the US, UK, Finland and
Australia. Not many by normal manufacturing standards, of course,
although we understand that, as a result, similar playing 'cells' to
ours have sprung up in other countries.
The problem for us has
been that, with the exception of the various game boards which we had
professionally printed and the coloured plastic counters and dice
blanks which we purchased from a games component manufacturer in
England, practically everything else had to be handmade. That meant laser-printing and cutting out all
of the card packs, laser printing the three versions of the rules
including the quick reference version which also had to be laminated,
and laboriously sticking laser-printed faces onto three blank dice
for every copy of the game. Quite frankly we've got a bit tired of
the job and have decided not to order any more of the colony counters
or blank dice at this stage. We still have several hundred copies of
the game boards and, of course, all of the computer files for making
up the other components.
We've thought of perhaps
offering a kind
of 'kit' to anyone ready to try and put the whole thing together
themselves, although even that
would take a lot of planning on our part. At the moment I can't
consider getting involved with it because I'm in the process of
self-publishing and promoting a full-length
detective novel [
The Seven
Symphonies ] which I've
spent the last four years writing. That task is taking up all of my
spare time and energy.
I'm sorry if you feel
you've wasted your time browsing our website, but we find it difficult to dismantle it and take it down completely, mainly for sentimental
reasons . . .
If you'd
like us to let you know
if-and-when we resume production, or if you might be interested in
receiving a 'kit' at some stage in the future, please email
us
(specifying 'Evolution Game' in
the title of the message so that it doesn't get dumped as spam!).
Meanwhile, thanks for
taking an interest in the Evolution Game.
By the inventor of The
Evolution Game:
A new full-length crime thriller set in Helsinki with unique
connections to the music of Sibelius..
CLICK ON THE BOOK COVER to visit the website!!
