A puzzle board game
by Blaž Urban Gracar
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Guide the Grey Family home through
more than 65 hand-crafted puzzles!
​Herd is a thinky board game for one player of more than 65 hand-crafted figurine-sliding puzzles. Move tactile black and white pieces across the pages of a richly illustrated book, on a journey to find their home. From the creator of the acclaimed thinky games LOK, Abdec and All Is Bomb, Herd is Blaž Urban Gracar's latest exploration of the physical puzzle possibilities.​​
Tight grids and minimalistic rules pack a punch - untangle each solution in the flowy rhythm of sliding, jumping and stacking the figurines. Travel from page to page, meeting strange creatures along the way - you might find page-transcending secrets in the linework of their illustrations...
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FEATURES
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a 124-page book with 65 main puzzles and many optional challenges;
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6 playing figurines;
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a modern reinterpretation of the classic sliding block games;
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perfect for a daily ritual away from screens.
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PHYSICAL GAME
Herd comes as a pack of 6 plastic figurines: 2 black Shepherds, 2 white Sheep, 1 double Herd and 1 triple Herd. A large spiral-bound playbook contains more than 65 puzzles. A "Letibus Classic" plastic sheet is also included to take notes and solve secrets. At the end of the book are listed all the solutions of the main set of puzzles, as well as compiled rules.
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PRINT FILES
Herd is also available as print files: a PDF (either single-paged or double-paged) that you can print into a booklet or scroll through on a tablet - and STL files for 3D printing the figurines (the models were created by Vojta Karen). You can also proxy the figurines with building blocks, clay, toy parts​ or checkers pieces glued together.
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PREVIEW
Check out the PDF and video previews!
MEDIA
"... Some months later, Blaž asked me what I’d think about having my designs in the final game. I said yes, of course! That led to a host of other tweaks. We even went through a full redesign of the “faces” at one point, making them possibly even cuter?"
Vojta Karen's blog post about designing the figurines
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Interview with Board Game Blitz (about Herd and other games)
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"...The multi-talented Blaž is back now with HERD after a long delay due mostly to production issues. This latest entry in the catalogue feels both familiar and different: we're still flipping through a book of puzzles one at a time, running into and creating our own rule discoveries and realizations as we go, but this time there are more physical pieces involved..."
Thinky Games article written for the release
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"...Much of what's going on here we've come to expect from previous works in Blaž's portfolio. A physical, spiral-bound book filled with charming, hand-illustrated puzzle grids and featuring a race of amorphous little creatures that need our guidance. As usual we'll be asked to intuit and discover some of the rules as we play in a delightful process of creating our own eureka moments..."
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"Herd is Blaž Urban Gracar’s latest paper puzzle game featuring strange little creatures— this time you’re herding a variety of adorable critters into specific spots. With previous community favorites LOK and Abdec under his belt, and LOK Digital currently in the works, we're always excited to see a new design from this innovative puzzle-book maker..."
Thinky Games article written when the demo was first published
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Review of Herd in the Belgium newspaper "De Standaard" (4 stars)
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THE TEAM
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Herd was designed by Blaž Urban Gracar. Blaž is a Slovenian creator, active in multiple fields. He composes award-winning music for theatre and film, publishes prose, poetry and comic books, animates short films and designs puzzle games. Under the Letibus Design name, he released three critically-acclaimed puzzle books LOK, Abdec, Workworkwork, card game All Is Bomb and co-developed the puzzle videogame LOK Digital (with Icedrop Games).
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The figurines were designed by Vojta Karen. Vojta is a tinkerer from the Czech Republic with a passion for both board and video games. He loves 3D modelling and bringing his creations to life through 3D printing and woodworking.
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The solutions of the puzzles were made tighter thanks to the solver app, developed by Jakub Ukrop. Jakub is a software developer from Slovakia who likes games, graphics and ruin preservation.
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The manufacturing of the book and the box and the packaging was handled by Graphtech from Slovenia, frequent collaborators of Letibus Design. The manufacturing of figurines was done by the craftsmen at Eastar Game Manufacturing.
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