Pandemic creator’s new board game, Daybreak, is about climate change
An exclusive interview with Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace
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Pandemic, is working on a new project. It’s a cooperative board game called
Daybreak, and it will model the real-world fight against climate change. Working together with a new collaborator, Italian game designer Matteo Menapace, the trick will be balancing fun with a desire to normalize the conversation around our warming planet.
The game, which is still in development, will be published by CMYK, the same company behind hits like
To fans of Leacock’s previous work,
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“With the current lack of physical exhibitions and social gatherings, where you’d usually find opportunities, we need to rethink our methods of community building and artist career development,” says Ema Marinova.
Marinova is the founder of Cluster, a London-based art fair. Like most events-based companies, the pandemic has up-ended Cluster’s business and left the team wondering how it can continue to engage artists and designers during the biggest threat to the creative industry in a generation.
In response to these thoughts, later this year the Cluster studio will welcome its first ever illustrator in residence. As Marinova tells Design Week: “We had to come up with an initiative that keeps supporting individuals in the arts.”